Two ex-Deutsche Post Global Mail employees have set up a logistics and mail consultancy to assist companies with distribution and postal networks throughout the world. R6 Consultancy, based in Burton Upon Trent, Staffordshire, is initially concentrating on transporting print within Europe, but wants to extend its services to include address and data management, marketing services and transactional mail production as required.
Read MoreLa Poste plans to invest $341 million on the Belgium Post Office through various modernization initiatives.
The money is coming from equity financing from SFP, the state-owned asset management concern that now owns slightly less than 50% of Belgium Post.
The post plans to use the money on new equipment for four mail sorting centers and other unspecified restructuring projects. The modernization program is aimed at boosting the quality of services La Poste offers and cutting operational costs.
Read MoreHellenic Post Offices SA said on Monday that net earnings in the first half totalled 11.0 million euros, up 13.52 percent on the same period a year earlier. Turnover was 227.8 million euros, showing a 10.55 percent increase on the first half of 2002, management said in a statement.
Read MoreThe Postal Service should drop its e-commerce initiatives and spend its resources strictly on mail delivery, the President’s Commission on the U.S. Postal Service has concluded in a new report.
The commission also suggested the Postal Service consider outsourcing its IT management along with other high-cost functions, such as real estate management and vehicle maintenance.
The report, released last week, said USPS e-commerce ventures have produced largely disappointing results and drained time and resources that could have been spent improving traditional postal services.
Read MoreThe government today urged Royal Mail management and unions to settle a pay dispute which threatens to escalate into a national postal strike.
The Department for Trade and Industry warned that a strike could do severe harm to the long-term prospects of the postal service.
But a spokesman for the department insisted that ministers saw the dispute as a “commercial matter” and would stay out of it for as long as possible.
Postal services in Japan, the United States, South Korea, China, Hong Kong and Australia have formed an alliance to speed up express parcel delivery as competition sharpens with private-sector couriers. Japan Post, are quoted on saying, the entities reached an agreement at a meeting in June in Washington to expand areas for next-day delivery and for services to set delivery times as well as to reinforce parcel tracking among others. Japan Post offers express courier services under the EMS brand.
Read MoreBusiness Post, the independent parcel delivery firm, is in talks to take up a number of the mail trains soon to be abandoned by Royal Mail.
The move would help to safeguard some of the 517 railway jobs at risk as a result of Royal Mail’s shock decision to switch the transport of mail from rail to road.
Business Post is understood to be in early discussions with EWS, Britain’s largest rail freight operator, about setting up a high-speed mail service between London and Scotland.
Read MorePostal workers are to be balloted on industrial action in a dispute over pay, threatening the first national strike for seven years, it was announced today.
Around 160,000 members of the Communication Workers’ Union will vote over the next few weeks on whether to stage a series of walk-outs in a row over this year’s wage offer which the union claimed had more “strings” than the Philharmonic Orchestra.
The CWU said the Royal Mail was being disingenuous by claiming that the latest offer was worth 14.5% over 18 months.
Officials said the only definite money on offer was 3% from October and a further 1.5% next April.
The union said it was being asked to agree to 30,000 job cuts, which it said would “destroy” postal service.
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