British Regulator Issues Licenses to TNT (UK)
British Regulator Issues Licenses to TNT (UK)
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Consignia to sell Royal Mail train fleet as rail delays hit performance targets
THE ROYAL Mail wants to sell off its fleet of mail trains as part of a
sweeping transport review, which could result in a big drop in the volume of
post moved by rail.
French post office's Spanish agreement "imminent"
Martin Vial, chairman of the French post office (La Poste), claims that his organisation is about to sign a partnership agreement with its Spanish counterpart.
Read MorePOSTAL SERVICES COMMISSION / LICENSING CAN DELIVER POSTAL COMPETITION IN EUROPE
Postal competition in Europe might develop more effectively if member states were to abandon the areas reserved for their domestic monopolists in favour of a licensing system similar to that being pioneered in the UK.
Read MorePostmen get cold feet on penny stamp rise
CONSIGNIA, formerly known as the Post Office, yesterday suspended plans to increase the price of first and second class stamps by a penny each, after the postal regulator made it clear that it would not approve the increase.
Read MoreHungary: Government gives Postabank's state-owned shares to Post Office
The Hungarian Post Office has welcomed the government decision that 100 per cent of the state-owned shares of Postabank [a large retail bank formerly in difficult position before it was consolidated from large state funds under the current government] will be given to the Hungarian Post Office, the
director-general has said. He said the aim of this decision was turn Postabank into a real people’s bank.
Those old bad habits won't be licked while costs are simply passed on to mail customers
Nearly a million other bits of paper entrusted every day to our postal monopoly are never seen again.
Read MorePostal Service Looks to Private Business Ideas; Critics Say Agency Has Unfair Advantage Because of Tax, Rules Exemptions
The U.S. Postal Service is putting out the call to business for help in creating new online ventures, as it weighs an electronic future in which the agency might one day spin off private enterprises.
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