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China and Malaysia crowned football and cheerleading champions at DHL AsiaCup 2007

Posted by | Jun 25, 2007 | |

DHL announced that China and Malaysia have emerged as the football and cheerleading champions in its inaugural DHL AsiaCup 2007, held from 22 June to 24 June at the Royal Selangor Club at Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur. This region-wide team-building exercise is one of the largest corporate sporting events, involving 12 countries across Asia Pacific.

A total of 19 teams and 450 staff from DHL offices in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Oceania, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam participated in the DHL AsiaCup final play-offs. Hundreds of DHL staff turned up to support their teams during the three-day event.

Besides the football teams, nine cheerleading teams also held their own competition, providing spectators with a visual feast of choreography and precision. The cheerleading team from host country Malaysia got the highest votes from the judges, amidst enthusiastic support from friends and colleagues from the sidelines.

Organized by DHL Asia Pacific, the inaugural DHL AsiaCup 2007 was held following the success of the 2006 World Sports Event by DHL’s parent company Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN), which was hailed as one of the world’s largest team-building events with a participation of 2,500 staff from 24 countries. The DPWN World Sports Event was organized parallel to the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

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Postal firm DX confident that doubling its size is in the bag

Posted by | Jun 25, 2007 | |

DX, the postal business bought last year by private equity firm Candover Partners, is confident it can double in size over the next few years as deregulation of the postal industry gathers pace.

The firm – originally known as Document Exchange – was started nationally in the mid-1970s on the back of a major postal strike. The legal profession and law societies decided that they needed an alternative postal network. With a network of branches across the UK, DX is now one of the biggest competitors to Royal Mail.

DX, which has more than 27,000 private and public sector customers, stands to benefit if Royal Mail staff press ahead with the first national postal strike for 11 years.

Earlier this month, some 69,000 members of the Communication Workers Union – 77 per cent of those voting – backed a strike over pay and cost efficiency plans.

As well as legal practices, DX services surveyors, accountants, estate agents and other professional services firms. Its new Rutland Square facility can count all of the major Scottish law firms among its users.

Although DX is focused primarily on next-day business mail services, its clients have access to a special delivery product that covers both business and residential addresses.

Candover paid almost £350m last July to secure DX. The venture capital heavyweight also bought Secure Mail Services, which delivers cheque books and credit cards to consumers, for an undisclosed sum.

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Japan Post to Set Up Staffing Agency

Posted by | Jun 23, 2007 | |

Japan Post Corp., the planning company for the breakup and privatization of state-owned Japan Post, plans to establish a wholly owned staffing agency as early as July, Jiji Press learned Saturday.

The move is aimed at securing part-time workers on a stable basis in order to allow the Japan Post group to utilize such employees after the scheduled breakup and privatization in October.

Japan Post is currently employing hundreds of thousands of part-timers as postal sorting and delivery workers and clerks at post offices across the country.

As a result of a cutback on the recruitment of full-time workers and the promotion of an early retirement program as part of cost reduction efforts, part-time workers have became indispensable to maintain Japan Post’s services.

However, Japan Post is now having difficulties recruiting part-time workers, mainly in urban areas, as Japan’s economic recovery has led to a rise in job offers by private companies.

This has forced Japan Post to raise hourly wages for its part-time workers for some regions and start using workers dispatched by staffing agencies at post offices in areas around Tokyo and the Kinki western Japan region for the first time ever.

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All Nippon Airways and Overseas Courier Service to launch express delivery service

Posted by | Jun 23, 2007 | |

All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Tokyo-based Overseas Courier Service (OCS) will jointly develop a new international express delivery service aimed primarily at the growing Asian market, ANA said Friday.

BEAM, as the new service will be known, is planned to launch at the end of Augustr. It will utilize ANA’s growing freighter network for air transportation and OCS’s collection, delivery and customs-clearance services on the ground to provide high-speed, high-quality and reliable international deliveries.

Services will first be offered to Shanghai — using ANA’s late night cargo flights from Haneda via Kansai — and rolled out to other points in China as demand for the service develops.

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Deutsche Post summer campaign

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post will launch a major TV and print advertising campaign this summer to promote its core mail delivery services. The move comes as rivals gear up to compete in a fully-liberalised market from next January.

Under the slogan „Post for Germany“, Deutsche Post will highlight its delivery staff, its delivery quality and the logistics system behind the domestic mail service.

The print adverts will run in daily and weekly newspapers and consumer magazines. There will also be special supplements in publications and about 40 million direct mailings to households and businesses.

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Intelligent Mail Barcode increases mailing efficiency

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

Last September the U.S. Postal Service allowed mailers to use the Intelligent Mail Barcode, which adds a new level of control to mail tracking and address changes service. In 2009 the IMB is slated to replace Postnet and Postal alpha numeric encoding technique, or PLANET, bar codes on domestic mail.

This new bar code has been popularly promoted as a combination of the Postnet bar code and the PLANET bar code, able to route and track mail with a single bar code.

The IMB brings much more than a simple combination of codes. Using the IMB, mailers know if and when mail gets delivered. Mail that is redirected by the Postal Service is now easily identified. Mailers can request address changes service information in the bar code at a greatly reduced cost. Many aspects of the delivery tracking expectations that FedEx and UPS have created are now met by the Postal Service, but at a dramatically lower cost.

The IMB can be used as a replacement for the Postnet code with the IMB for routing without asking for any address update or tracking information. In addition, the mailer can get tracking information from the Confirm program as currently done with the PLANET code but with more precision from the additional digits. Lastly, the mailer can request an electronic change notice for addresses that have a forwarding order. Mailers can request any combination of these services on a piece-by-piece basis.

Using the IMB, mailers will be able to track the progress of individual pieces. This means that mailers can use the IMB data to anticipate in-home dates and coordinate other marketing efforts with that mail. They will also be able to immediately determine the quality and accuracy or mailing lists by identifying what mail pieces are rerouted and returned.

Using the OneCode ACS feature, mailers will also be able to comply with recently published move update requirements for Standard Mail as well as those in place for discounted First-Class Mail.

This new bar code does a lot more than track delivery times. Unlike current postal bar codes, the IMB is not simply a font. An encoder, a USPS computer program, is required to convert the numeric value to the new bar code. This adds some complexity to the process for mailing companies, and the mailing software vendors are currently looking to develop better solutions to work with the IMB.

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Postal workers protest outsourcing

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

Two labor unions are planning pickets at 16 locations across Florida, including Jacksonville, to protest the U.S. Postal Service’s outsourcing policies.

Members of the National Association of Letter Carriers and the National Rural Letter Carriers Association chose June 27 to demonstrate against the policies that the unions say will diminish service to postal customers and endanger the future viability of the Postal Service.

The pickets will be held outside post offices or in neighborhoods where mail is currently being delivered by non-postal employees, Judy Willoughby, NALC national business agent, said in a release.

Pickets will be at the main Jacksonville post office on Kings Road from 4 to 6 p.m.

NALC’s effort to fight privatization of mail delivery has gained support in Congress. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has introduced The Mail Delivery Protection Act of 2007 (S. 1457) to outlaw most outsourcing, and in the House of Representatives, Rep. Albio Sires, D-N.J., has authored H. Res. 282, which would condemn the practice and urge the Postal Service to halt the practice immediately.

The NALC represents 298,000 active and retired letter carriers of the U.S. Postal Service in all 50 states and United States jurisdictions.

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FedEx to Base Pilots Overseas

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

FedEx Corp. plans to establish pilot bases in Paris and Hong Kong, saving it the cost of getting U.S.-based pilots to work and giving it more flexibility as it takes on DHL.

The Memphis-based company and the pilots’ union are discussing an amendment to the pilots’ contract, including cost-of-living stipends and details about the planes FedEx intends to fly in each market.

When domiciles are established, pilots who choose to commute from the United States, or from anywhere else, will have to pay their own fares.

FedEx has bases in Memphis, Los Angeles, Subic Bay and Anchorage, Alaska.

“You want to have your pilots based where the flight originates because that’s where you have the longest layovers,” said Satish Jindel at S J Consulting near Pittsburgh. “It gives the pilots a better quality of life and better scheduling.”

The change comes as FedEx adds capacity to its fleet and prepares to open its Asian hub in Guangzhou, China, in December 2008. FedEx’s Asian business is growing by double digits; growth in Europe is slightly less.

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