THE Post Office has come in for a fair amount of stick recently about
lower service standards and the high level of industrial disputes. It is
of course Postwatch’s role to highlight this on behalf of the consumer
and to try to help the Post Office to improve the position. The lot of the
individual ‘postie’ is often not an enviable one.
March 29, 2001 — The Australian federal government has ditched plans to reduce Australia Post’s monopoly of postal services, blaming opposition from Labor and the minor parties. The government originally had proposed legislation that would have allowed Australia Post competitors to shift letters of 50 grams or more, but kept the monopoly for standard letters. Introduced under national competition policy, the bill would also have removed the monopoly on incoming overseas mail, corporatised Australia Post and partially deregulated business mail.
Read MoreMarch 31, 2001 — CargoWebNews has reported that “PTT Post, part of TNT Post in The Netherlands, is abusing its position as manager of post office boxes, according to its competitor, Mail Merge. Competitor postal companies can only deliver post destined for post offices boxes under strict conditions. Mail Merge is today lodging a complaint with the Dutch postal market regulator, Opta The Dutch Post Office Act states that TPG must provide other suppliers of mail carriage with access to the post office boxes on an equal basis. Mail Merge says that TPG is obstructing access to the post office boxes with a great many conditions, amounting to unfair competition.”
Read MoreMarch 29, 2001 — Sweden Post’s recently announced contract with EDS, who has contracted Checkfree i-Solutions and NETdelivery Corporation, for a comprehensive e-business solution for online postal services further positions NETdelivery as the leading provider of advanced electronic document delivery systems. NETdelivery’s technology platform has now been selected by the world’s only two online postal services — as Sweden Post joins Canada Post’s EPOST in offering Internet-based capabilities for businesses and consumers within their countries. NETdelivery partnered with EDS, and Checkfree i-Solutions, an operating group of Checkfree, to build a comprehensive electronic billing system and secure electronic document delivery solution. Together, the companies expect to provide Sweden Post’s business and consumer customers with online services during 2001.
Read More“Building the New Postal Intermediary,” by Markku Mäkitalo, Direct Marketing Director, Finland Post (POSTI), was presented at the IQPC World e-Post Summit 2001 in London. This presentation is about key trends in the global postal and logistics market, the impact of cellular, cross-border mail, challenges of e-business, the internmediary role, e-fulfilment opportunity, and direct marketing core trends.
Read MoreParcels companies including Nightspeed and Securicor Omega Express say they will not be applying to the postal regulator for a licence to deliver mail.
Read MoreOgilvy Interactive (OI) contract
Read MoreThe federal government today ditched plans to open up more mail deliveries to private posties, after protests about the impact of the reforms in regional areas
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