Year: 2001

La Poste opens stock market website, while Livret A savings booklet progresses

Posted by | Nov 16, 2001 | |

La Poste, the French post office, is preparing to complete its range of financial services. On Tuesday it will launch a stock market web site aimed at the general public. Patrick Werner, general manager with responsibility for financial activities and the general public network, says La Poste has a long tradition of customer relations other than on a face-to-face basis, and since customers want to access the group’s services in various ways, the group has to respond.

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New targets add to strain between An Post and Irish Postal Regulator

Posted by | Nov 16, 2001 | |

An Post claims new targets for next-day postal deliveries set by the telecoms regulator, Ms Etain Doyle, are unnecessary and unattainable. The development is the latest sign of strain in the relationship between the State company and Ms Doyle’s office, which has regulated its business since September last year.
In addition, Ms Doyle has sought more information from An Post to justify its application for a 30 per cent rise in international postal tariffs.
The company has already taken issue with a (pounds) 550,000 (EUR699,000) fee levied by Ms Doyle’s office for its regulation this year, arguing it is excessive and “totally inappropriate”.
On delivery standards, Ms Doyle said in a paper last September that An Post’s customers wanted a “much improved” standard of next-day delivery.
She added that the company did not meet its own target of 90 per cent for all mails at present.

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Postal Services Act 2000

Posted by | Nov 16, 2001 | |

Postal Services Act 2000. An Act to establish the Postal Services Commission (Postcomm)and the Consumer Council for Postal Services (CCPS); to provide for the licensing of certain postal services and for a universal postal service; to provide for the vesting of the property, rights and liabilities of the Post Office in a company nominated by the Secretary of State and for the subsequent dissolution of the Post Office; to make further provision in relation to postal services; and for connected purposes.
research library L13891
also at http://www.legistlation.hmso.gov.uk/acts (only available online)

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Tele2 to launch fixed line telephony in UK for the Post Office from Nov 19

Posted by | Nov 15, 2001 | |

Tele2 AB said it has won an order from the UK’s The Post Office to launch fixed line, “pay-as you-go” telephony services in the UK from Nov 19.
The deal marks the The Post Office’s first move into fixed line telephony since it was divested from British Telecommunications in 1981.
Tele2 AB’s chief executive officer, Lars-Johan Jarnheimer, said the deal provided it with “a very strong platform from which to attack the UK market” – the only major European country where it does not offer fixed line services.
Tele2 will provide the telecommunications expertise and infrastructure and The Post Office the branding and distribution network for the new service which will be positioned as a low cost brand for national long distance, international and fixed to mobile calls, and will, Tele2 said, offer customers substantial savings.

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Airborne Express receives 3-year agreement

Posted by | Nov 15, 2001 | |

Airborne Express has received one of the most significant agreements ever for its airborne@home delivery service – a three year, multi-million-dollar agreement with J. Jill, a speciality direct marketer of womens clothing which has promised to expand its use of airborne@home to over one million shipments annually.

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