Year: 2001

Belgian Post wants to close 400 branches

Posted by | Nov 14, 2001 | |

Belgian Post Group (BPG) wants to close over a third of the 1,350 post offices in Belgium, as they are unprofitable. The social consequences will be limited as the operation will be spread over five years and part of the staff will be transferred to the new-style post offices which will be opened from May 2002.
A limited number of the 400 offices to be closed may still be saved via agreements with the local authorities. Under the terms of these agreements, councils would pay the rent of post office buildings while BPG would supply the staff.

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SDS makes security upgrade

Posted by | Nov 14, 2001 | |

Hijackers who used insecure radio communications between trucks and their base to help them trace and rob vehicles in the Republic of Ireland later prompted the operator of the stricken vehicles to upgrade systems to a full fleet communications operation.

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Deutsche Post loses court case

Posted by | Nov 14, 2001 | |

A court has ruled that Deutsche Post AG, the German postal services operator and former state monopolist, must allow the market for deadline deliveries of letters to be opened to competitors (the company otherwise still has a monopoly on letters weighing up to 200 grams). Deutsche Post had lodged a complaint against the awarding by the postal regulator of a licence for deadline deliveries.
The court based its decision on the fact that the basic services of Deutsche Post do not include the same-day delivery of letters or their delivery on a date specified by the customer. It rejected the former monopolist’s argument that the awarding of the licence represented a circumvention of its exclusive right.

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Consignia may cut use of mail trains

Posted by | Nov 14, 2001 | |

Consignia, the state-owned postal services group, is considering drastic changes to its distribution network that could lead to a big reduction in its use of mail trains.

A review of the company’s transport needs is understood to be seeking substantial savings in the cost of distributing 80m letters a day, of which about 20 per cent go by train.

The review is led by Paul Bateson, managing director of logistics, who was formerly an executive at TNT, the road-based logistics group. It is expected to report by Christmas as part of the company’s attempts to cut its Pounds 8bn costs by about Pounds 1.2bn.

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Greek and Bulgarian Post & Telecommunications services to cooperate

Posted by | Nov 14, 2001 | |

Bulgaria’s Council of Ministers [on] Thursday [8 November] approved an agreement on cooperation in post offices and telecommunications with Greece, the Government’s Information and PR Directorate (IPRD) said. The agreement was signed in Sofia on 17 July 2001 and envisages exchange of information and specialists under various liberalization, consultancy and training programmes.
Bulgaria and Greece will cooperate in research and design of post-office and telecommunications equipment.

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Belgium: La Poste to cut 8,000 jobs at its mail division by 2005

Posted by | Nov 13, 2001 | |

Belgian postal services operator La Poste is to close two of its five sorting centres. According to the details of a new internal plan, the group’s Charleroi X and Liege X sorting offices will be replaced by a single installation to cover the Walloon region of Belgium. In Flanders, meanwhile, the group will transfer activities from its Ghent office to Anvers. The plan will be put to the group’s administrative board in December, and could lead to the loss of 198 jobs, according to figures put forward by La Poste.

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Deutsche Post releases encouraging 3Q results

Posted by | Nov 13, 2001 | |

Deutsche Post, Europe’s largest postal services group, met expectations with its third-quarter results yesterday and sounded an upbeat note for the rest of the year.
Its optimism came despite the impact of the September attacks in the US and subsequent anthrax scares that have disrupted postal services in Germany and elsewhere.
Deutsche Post, which was partly privatised a year ago, said it still expected full-year earnings before interest, taxes and amortisation (ebita) to rise more than 5 per cent from last year’s level. It also expected 2001 net profit before minority interest to remain at last year’s level.

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