Mersey Docks: Trading Update
Mersey Docks: Trading Update
Read MoreYear: 2003
French La Poste expects to stay in the black
Jean-Paul Bailly, chairman of the French post office, La Poste, said on Saturday that his organisation expects to show a consolidated net profit of around €100m for 2003. La Poste returned to profit last year with a positive net result of €34m. Mr Bailly also confirmed that La Poste’s modernisation programme will involve natural wastage but not redundancies.
Read MoreIndustry angry at UK Royal Mail plan to charge by size
The biggest shake-up in sending post since the creation of the Penny Black stamp in 1840 is being proposed by Royal Mail, which plans to charge for letters by their size rather than their weight.
The move has angered industries such as direct-mail operators and card and envelope manufacturers, which say the shift will be costly, destroy business and be hard for consumers to understand.
Royal Mail has put the plan to Postcomm, the industry regulator, which must give approval before it can be implemented.
Read MoreUK Royal Mail workers braced for bumper postbag
Royal Mail has been gearing up for its busiest day of the year, with an expected bumper postbag of 135 million cards and letters.
Many people were catching up on their Christmas card list over the weekend and were set to put them in the post from the 15th Dec.
The usual daily postbag of 82 million items will increase in the run-up to the last posting day for first class mail on Saturday 20th Dec.
Read MoreJapan Post to install mailboxes in C&S stores
Japan Post, in a move aimed at boosting its parcel post business, has reached an agreement with C&S Co. to place mailboxes within the Circle K and Sunkus convenience stores that C&S operates.
This follows the postal service’s alliance with major convenience store operator Lawson Inc.
Mailboxes will be installed at 1,394 of C&S’s 6,000 stores in the four prefectures of Aichi, Gifu, Shizuoka and Mie, and mail will be accepted starting Monday 15th December. Lawson already has mailboxes in all of its 7,700 stores.
Read MoreUK Rail company goes to court to keep the Royal Mail on track
Royal Mail is being taken to court by Britain’s largest rail freight company after the mail operator decided to scrap all deliveries by rail.
The 10-year rail delivery contract is worth £65m (€93m, $113m) a year to English, Welsh & Scottish Railways (EWS) and had been due to run until September 2006. But Royal Mail decided earlier this year to terminate the contract in March. Last year, EWS, which is contesting the Royal Mail decision, transported about one in five letters by rail.
Read MoreUnions split over Royal Mail recovery plan
Royal Mail yesterday won complete backing for its crucial recovery plan from the main postal workers’ union, the CWU – and angered another with plans for up to 3,000 redundancies among managers. The company and the CWU are understood to have reached an agreement that will trigger 10% pay increases for 160,000 postal staff and scrap the second daily delivery. The two sides, who met in considerable secrecy at the conciliation service, Acas, are also understood to have reached a deal on cost of living allowances in London that were at the heart of a spate of unofficial wildcat strikes in the capital. But Peter Skyte, the national secretary of Amicus communication managers, said the “sacking” of 3,000 non-operational managers was a “kick in the teeth” for people who kept the postal service going during the unofficial strikes.
Read MoreTDG cuts back in Netherlands
TDG cuts back in Netherlands
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