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Read MoreMail start-up iq letternet targets 100 million letters in 2007
A new postal operator, iq letternet, aims to become one of the three leading postal operators in Germany competing with Deutsche Post. The privately-owned company is currently setting up a nationwide network of delivery partners and will use UPS for intra-regional linehaul transport.
Based near Düsseldorf, iq letternet plans to despatch 100 million letters this year which would establish it among the three leading postal operators in Germany in terms of volumes. “Each of our private delivery partners will receive more than 10,000 letters a day on average from iq letternet by the end of this year,” said Rainer Pliska, one of the three managing directors of the company.
The six companies that own iq letternet, which include several direct mailing firms, handle about 170 million letters from customers such as the German airline LTU, the Galeria Kaufhof department store chain and allkauf supermarket group.
Volumes are presently delivered mostly by some 60 regional postal delivery firms and the rest by Deutsche Post. Volumes will be gradually transferred to the new delivery network, with about 30 million pieces planned for this year, to ensure that quality levels are maintained.
To secure a long-term cooperation with its delivery partners, iq letternet plans to set up a joint stock company in the first half of the year which all its partners can take shares in. Their participation will guarantee the reservation of their delivery area exclusively for themselves. At the same time, special shareholder agreements will ensure that competitors will not be able to enter the network by buying delivery partners.
Iq letternet claimed that it is the only postal operator alongside Deutsche Post in Germany that can receive letters as electronic data, print them centrally or decentrally, and then handle delivery. Letters are handed over pre-sorted to UPS for transport to the respective local postal delivery partner. This process chain halves the usual production and distribution times for a mass mailing. The company is also planning to open a central mail sorting centre in Darmstadt, central Germany.
The company said last autumn that it is aiming for annual revenues of euro 500 million by 2010.
Read MoreMore than 100 post offices to be closed in Hungary
The Hungarian Postal Service (Magyar Posta Zrt.) is planning to close 103 post offices before the end of the year, and sell another 1,000 in 2008, writes fn.hu, based on a report in business daily Napi Gazdaság.
Starting today, 38 existing post offices will be closed, and another 65 will be shuttered on March 1.
Services will be cut where there are currently more post offices operated than specified by law. In Budapest, for example, there are 169 post offices, but only 86 are legally required.
Magyar Posta Assistant CEO László Szivi said that offices will also be closed where the volume of traffic does not justify their existence.
With the retreat of the company, a full liberalization of postal services can be expected by 2009. There are nearly 100 companies in Hungary registered to perform postal services, including several global firms, many of which are believed to be planning a further expansion of their operations once liberalization occurs.
Read MoreCorreos opens a new centre in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Correos has opened a new Centre of Automated Treatment (CTA) in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. The centre will handle approx 450,000 and 500,000 letters and postal objects of standardised format daily. The machines have the ability to classify more than 40.000 shipments per hour. The new CTA will analyze the correspondence in the province of Las Palmas and will serve as a receiving centre. The mail directed to the interior of the province will be sent to the centres of classified distribution by postal codes and section of distribution. This will simplify the internal tasks of the sorting offices and will improve the quality of service. Also, Correos will have greater assurances in precise increases of volume of correspondence, because the new equipment can manage more shipments.
Read MoreUPS names Bernhardt Wagner as MD for Southern Europe
Bernhardt Wagner has been named as the UPS Managing Director for Southern Europe and also as country manager for Italy. The former MD James Smith has taken up the position of Mid-South District manager in the USA.
Wagner will be responsible for the strategic development and operational management of UPS in Italy and the Southern European region. Based in Milan he will tasked with reinforcing the company’s presence in these markets. The Southern European Region includes Italy, Switzerland, the Mediterranean, Greece, the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East.
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