Deutsche Post, Europe’s largest postal services group, announced on Tuesday it would cut 3,000 jobs in its mail delivery unit by early next year. The move was widely perceived as an attempt to accelerate cost savings in the division that is Deutsche Post’s largest and most profitable, but which analysts say has the lowest potential for growth.
Read MoreCompetition in Britain’s postal industry shifted up a gear yesterday
when the industry regulator, Postcomm, signalled its intention to
grant a temporary licence to the logistics and support services
group Hays for the provision of three specialist services. Postcomm said the proposed one-year licence would allow it to assess
the effects of certain enhanced postal services while it develops
its longer term policy for liberalisation of the postal market where
Consignia, formerly the Post Office, enjoys a de facto monopoly on
the delivery of mail weighing less than 350gr and costing less than
pounds 1 to send.
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Read MoreThe big problem with the Postal Service is not its policies of price rises and eliminating Saturday deliveries, the big problem is that it is a monopoly and that the government keeps it a monopoly by law. Call for privatisation.
Read MoreThe US$50 billion US domestic and international heavy freight industry is highly fragmented, with the top 5 percent of freight forwarders controlling approximately 50 percent of the market, according to Jim Hartigan, president and CEO of newly formed Integres Global Logistics.
Read MoreConsignia said on Friday that it is cutting 2,100 jobs as increasing competition in mail delivery begins to bite.
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