Jamie McGinnes SCORES of post offices are lying empty and unused in the Westcountry because no-one can be found to run them, a postal workers’ representative said yesterday.
The revelation follows the launch of a desperate appeal by Cornish MP Matthew Taylor for someone to re-open two village post offices that have been “temporarily” shut for a year.
La Poste, the French national postal services group, is pursuing the restructuring of its parcels activity, which generates FFr10m in turnover in France. After closing down Dilipack, the group also plans to terminate the activities of DPD France, its other express business parcel delivery service, acquired in 2000 and controlled by holding company Geopost.
Read MoreRecently there have been advertisements in national dailies for Expression of Interest in the Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST. Having achieved some measure of success in bringing the service back to a considerable level of efficiency and gradual return of customers’ confidence, government believes that to sustain and improve on the successes already achieved, NIPOST should go into private hands. This tallies with government’s position that businesses are better run by businessmen while government should concentrate on providing the enabling environment for the businesses to thrive.
Read MoreThe Swedish Postal service is developing an e-postbox, designed to be a hybrid or wholly-electronic post box. The service is part of a change in the posts direction towards electronic services and is designed to enable businesses and government to send bills, pay-slips, forms and marketing information to individuals.
Read MoreNovember 2001 – Deutsche Post has established a new Transport operation in the Philipines in which it holds a 70% stake with the remainder held by a local partner
Read MoreNovember 2001 – Thiel Logistik has acquired GST, a French based logistics concern with operations in FRance and Spain
Read MoreA study on the cost-based price formulation for postal services had been completed by the Hungarian Communications Authority and Andersen consulting. The study concluded that prices for services which are set by the government, such as postage rates for letters and small parcels are in line with cost-based prices determined by Magyar Posta Rt.
Read MoreBelgian particle beam accelerator maker Ion Beam Applications has signed a contract with the USPS to sterilise mail in a bid to try and eliminate anthrax from the countrys mail system.
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