Postal News
The latest postal news, analysis and data.
PostNL has announced it has successfully completed the sale of its Nexive business to Mutares. Nexive is the number-two mail and parcels provider in Italy. As previously announced, PostNL is obtaining a minority interest of 20% in the entity acquiring the Nexive business.
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Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have agreed a programme of talks aimed at resolving their current dispute.
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Haypost CJSC, Armenia’s national postal operator, and Russian Post, have launched a new, modernised money transfer service in the two countries.
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Royal Mail has launched new Inflight delivery options to offer greater convenience and flexibility for receiving customers. When retailers and other customers send items via Royal Mail Tracked, prior to delivery the recipient will receive a notification including an estimated delivery window and the Inflight delivery options.
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Bring and Posten have chosen Volta Trucks for an exclusive trial of its forthcoming Volta Zero. The Volta Zero is the world’s first purpose-built full-electric large freight distribution vehicle, and the trial will support Bring and Posten’s significant network of inner-city mail and parcel pick-up and drop-off locations.
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After the summer, PostNord Sweden will be testing SwipBox Infinity parcel lockers as part of a pilot in Stockholm. This means that the SwipBox Infinity solution has reached every part of Scandinavia.
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Australians can now pay for bitcoin at more than 3,500 national post offices. The new service...
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Royal Mail has announced it will be making 2,000 job cuts in order to save the business £130 million – around half of Royal Mail’s senior leaders and most senior managers are expected to leave the Company in the next few months.
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International Post Corporation (IPC) has appointed Tom Day, currently IPC Head of Proactive Performance Management and Certification Services to the positions of Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Tom will succeed Dirk Gloeckner, who left IPC at the end of April.
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Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) is expected to be split into three commercial ventures–NIPOST Properties & Development Company; NIPOST Transport & Logistics Company and NIPOST Microfinance bank Limited; local press sources report.
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Mail Boxes Etc. (MBE) Australia have launched an online virtual postal mail management service allowing customers to use a secure cloud-based platform to view and manage their mail anywhere in the world.
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Ukrainian Postal Service (Ukrposhta) has resumed the international delivery of items via direct passenger flights. The first flights will be conducted by Lufthansa and KLM.
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