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Emirates Post opens new post-office in Sharjah

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

Emirates Post opened new post-offices in Shajrah was inaugurated by Mr. Mohammed Bin Shaker Assistant Director General Zones Affairs.
The opening was attended by Mr. Ahmed Abdullah Al Haji Acting Director of 3rd Postal Zone, and Mr. Shouaib Ahmed Hassan Post Master of M’waileh Post Office and Mr. Sultan Saeed Sahooh Post Master Sharjah Main Post Office. The post office will be providing its services from 8.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m., Saturday to Thursday.

Emirates Post has now a network of 85 post offices across the country to provide innovative new services diversified its offering and established alliances with global postal corporations. Emirates Post’s diversified offering includes mail fulfillment, utility bill payment services, government services, Air Arabia reservations, direct marketing, banking, retail services and money exchange & remittances and other services.

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TNT Post acquires software co Move2 Solutions for undisclosed sum

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

TNT NV’s Dutch postal unit TNT Post has acquired software developer Move2 Solutions, TNT said in a press release.

Financial details were not disclosed.

TNT said Move2 has developed a software platform enabling companies to exchange documents and messages with suppliers and customers in any desired format.

Clients of Move2 include the Dutch Railways, Dutch Social Security Agency UWV and Royal DSM NV.

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La Poste organize first Euromed Postal Conference in Marseille

Posted by | Jul 10, 2007 | |

The first Euromed Postal Conference was held during the 9th and 10th July in Marseille.

La Poste Group was the main organiser of the conference in partnership with eight other postal operators: Algeria, Egypt, Spain, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Portugal and Tunisia. Euromed Postal gathered postal-sector players from countries across the European Union and around the southern and eastern Mediterranean.

The main topics discussed during the two day conference were:

• improving postal-service operation and efficiency to support development and promote economic integration across the Euro-Med area,

• promoting the key role that postal services as a whole play in their countries,

• encouraging cooperation.

This Euro-Med convention stems from the Barcelona process and included the 27 countries of the European Union alongside the 10 countries skirting the southern and eastern Mediterranean. Libya attended as an observer and Mauritania were invited as a ‘special guest.’

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USA: Magazines braced for higher postage

Posted by | Jul 10, 2007 | |

On Saturday, the U.S. Postal Service is set to raise rates an average 12 percent for mailing magazines across the country — a move many feel favors the larger magazines at the expense of smaller ones.

The postal service contends the new standards will boost efficiency and offer users more choices by encouraging publishers to co-mail and co-palletize, which is combining multiple magazines into a single mailing.

The new rate system also includes discounts for mailers who print labels that a computer can read, as well as incentives for publishers who agree to ship their titles along with other magazines and for dropping their magazines closer to their final destinations, John Waller, director of the Postal Regulatory Commission office of Rates, Analysis and Planning, said yesterday.

Magazine publishers both locally and nationally are bracing for the new postal rate restructuring.

While the average increase is about 12 percent, the postal service said, publishers claim that postal rates for smaller publications could increase by as much as 30 percent while the increases for larger-circulation magazines could be less than 10 percent because they take advantage of the discount incentives.

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DHL spends USD 7.8 M in Minnesota

Posted by | Jul 10, 2007 | |

DHL said it has invested USD7.8 million to open a new regional sort center facility to serve its air and ground network in the Midwest.

The Plantation-based express delivery and logistics firm said the new facility, in Bloomington, Minn., relocates DHL from a 35,000-square-foot space in Blaine, Minn., to one more than double that size.

The new 79,049-square-foot regional sort center is also closer to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The company predicted its new technologies to more than double the packages it can process each hour.

DHL also recently completed a USD1.2 billion buildout of its U.S. domestic network and infrastructure, including an expanded primary air and ground hub in Wilmington, Ohio, and seven new regional sort centers throughout the country.

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Business Post steps up pressure on Royal Mail

Posted by | Jul 10, 2007 | |

Business Post, the postal services company, said its turnover had risen 13 per cent in the first quarter of 2007 compared with the same period last year.

In an interim management statement ahead of Tuesday’s annual general meeting, the company said its struggling parcels business was “making progress in an increasingly competitive market” while other parts of the business were performing strongly.

Business Post’s parcels contract with Federal Express, worth about GBP 20m in revenue and GBP 2m in operating profit, was terminated on April 30. If the revenues from this contract were excluded, the company’s underlying revenue increase for the first quarter would have been 18 per cent, the company said.

More than 10 per cent of the 20bn items posted each year in the UK are now handled by private sector contractors. Business Post handles more than one in 20 letters posted in the UK.

Business Post said it had managed to minimize the disruption caused by the Royal Mail strike at the end of June.

The company said when it announced its full year results in May that it had more than doubled revenues of its UK Mail operation in the year to March 31 2007 to GBP 90.3m, following the full opening of the letters market to competition at the start of last year.

In May, the company said its operating profit from UK Mail also doubled from GBP 3.2m to GBP 6.4m after investing a further GBP 4m to increase sorting capacity.

The group’s turnover was GBP 325.6m in the year to March 31, compared with GBP 278.2m the previous year, and profit before tax was GBP 9.8m compared with GBP 4.7m the previous year.

Tuesday’s statement contained no information on the company’s expected profits or dividends.

Business Post now has more than 400 customers, including Prudential, which the company won in June, the BBC and the Department for Work and Pensions.

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