The man who straightened out mail delivery problems in the Washington area now gets to turn his attention to the whole Postal Service. Postal veteran John E. Potter will become the nation’s 72nd postmaster general on June 1, the agency announced Monday
Read MoreWorld of Shopping, the global shopping site developed by Parcelforce Worldwide, in partnership with Global eBusiness Solutions specialists, Retail Futures, last night picked up the Internet Commerce Award at the World Mail Awards in London
Read MoreCatalogers traditionally have sent to either the U.S. Postal Service or their printers paperwork detailing the content, weight, permit number, and other information for every pallet of catalog mail they send out. Happily, those days may soon be over. In April, the USPS launched the first phase of PostalOne, a suite of online services that allow mailers to electronically streamline catalogs into the mail system. Mailers or their printers can use the PostalOne Website to report on and make reservations for drop-shipping catalogs into destination sectional center facilities (SCFs) and bulk mail centers (BMCs). The next phase of PostalOne will allow for electronic postage payments.
Read MoreThe Danish Competition
Authority has urged a further liberalisation of the Danish postal services
sector. In its annual report published today (17 May) the Competition
Authority
suggested curbing Post Denmark’s current monopoly on postal distribution
of letters under 250 grammes to letters under 50 grammes.
MILITANT Post Office workers were yesterday warned they could face at least 100,000 job losses and privatisation of mail deliveries in Glasgow and Edinburgh if they refuse to improve their industrial relations record. The new postal watchdog predicted that both postal staff and management were “running out of time” to end the lengthy series of stoppages, and said they appeared “simply incapable of change”.
Read MoreHONGKONG Post has threatened a postage increase after its United Kingdom counterpart allegedly exploited a loophole to set up a delivery company in the SAR, causing it to lose $9 million in the first three months of the year. Incoming mail from the UK plummeted 36 per cent in the period compared with that of last year, Hongkong Post said. It attributed the drop to a new practice – established in October – under which mail from the UK is brought in by the company and selectively delivered to major business areas and densely populated areas
Read MoreKLM Royal Dutch Airlines reported operating income of EUR 277 million for the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2001, almost three times as much as the EUR 95 million it posted in previous year.
Read MoreLured by the huge potential market of China, foreign and domestic delivery companies have been racing to get a bigger bite of the growing pie. UPS started direct flights to China in April, 12 years after it began operations in the country, becoming the second US express carrier after Federal Express (FedEx) to operate direct flights. UPS will operate six Boeing 747 flights a week between the two countries. The company served the China market through Hong Kong in co-operation with Sinotrans, its China-based partner, before being granted direct air rights by the US government in January. Grabbing about 5% of China’s express delivery market, UPS posted a 45% growth in 2000 over the previous year in its China business.
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