Year: 2003

Romania Post sets up phone company

Posted by | Jul 21, 2003 | |

The Romanian Postal Service will start doing business in the market of land based phone-lines by setting up a company with SIF Banat Crisana (Financial Investment Company), SIF Oltenia, the Romanian Commercial Bank and the Romanian Industrial Group, as Bursa and Ziarul Financiar dailies write. According to the president of the Romanian Postal Service, the new company – ‘POSTelecom’ – will compete with RomTelecom due to ‘the superior quality of its services and smaller fees’. The Romanian Post Service will take an 80 million dollars loan from China’s Export-Import Bank, in order to buy the equipment necessary for POSTelecom’s infrastructure, as the president of the Romanian National Postal Company, Gabriel Mateescu said. The costs to get this business working for the first four years amount to 90 million dollars while the income was estimated to 137 billion dollars. The Chinese company Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment will provide the equipments and the technology will come from China Unicom.

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Canadian government moratorium on rural Post Office closures not being upheld

Posted by | Jul 21, 2003 | |

Canada Post Corporation, giving only two weeks notice, closed down the federally operated post office in McKerrow, Ontario, and sent a warning to rural Canadians throughout the country that rural post offices are once again being considered for closure. The moratorium on rural post office closures, introduced by the federal Liberal government in 1994, represented a strategic decision to preserve and promote Canada’s rural infrastructure and to ensure that rural communities across the country receive stable quality postal service. The Minister Responsible for Canada Post when the moratorium was put in place articulated the government’s commitment to rural Canada by stating that, “As long as this Government is in power, no rural post office will be closed”.

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U.S Postal Service shouldn't keep all offices open

Posted by | Jul 20, 2003 | |

Recommendations by a federal study panel to cut back on small- town post offices and establish new services in malls, banks and grocery stories will produce an inevitable backlash. After all, if you lose your ZIP code, you’re nowhere, right?

Though the proposals may require people to use a different location for mail, it doesn’t make sense to keep spending millions of dollars to staff and maintain miniscule facilities that do very little business.

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TNT Worldwide Malaysia sees 10% revenue growth

Posted by | Jul 18, 2003 | |

TNT Express Worldwide (M) Sdn Bhd expects to see revenue growth of 10 per cent for 2003, despite seeing a drop-off in volume of express materials handled in the second quarter. “We are on track. We expect demand to pick up in the second half to meet our full-year revenue forecast,” managing director L C Lee told reporters during a press conference in Petaling Jaya yesterday. He said the company was affected by the reduction in flight frequencies to areas hit by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, but it managed to reduce the impact by re-routing shipments to other gateways.

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Transend in row over revamp of UK mail

Posted by | Jul 18, 2003 | |

Tarnished NZ Post subsidiary Transend has become embroiled in a row over the reorganisation of British postal giant Royal Mail.

The international consultancy arm of NZ Post, severely criticised by the Audit Office last year for wasteful and excessive spending by staff, is advising Royal Mail on a revamp of its distribution network. The plan includes scrapping Royal Mail’s train distribution system, which has come under fire by British opposition MPs.

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U.S. Postal Service reverses its decision on Alpine Air

Posted by | Jul 18, 2003 | |

Alpine Air Express Inc. with its operating subsidiary Alpine Air, a leading provider of regional air cargo transport and logistics services, announced that it has received notice from the U.S. Postal Service that its previous decision to not award Alpine Air new contracts under its AMOT transportation plan has been reversed. The U.S. Postal Service has subsequently decided to award the contract to Alpine.

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Canada Post negotiations continue past deadline for strike

Posted by | Jul 18, 2003 | |

Negotiations on a new contract for Canada’s postal workers continued past a midnight strike deadline into early Friday after the federal postal service made a new offer.

Deborah Bourque, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, said the offer fell short of the basis for a tentative agreement, but called it “a sign that Canada Post may be taking negotiations seriously.”

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Postwatch calls for clarification of the social role of rural post offices

Posted by | Jul 18, 2003 | |

Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for UK postal services, today called on the Government to clarify the social role that it expects post offices to play in rural communities and to provide appropriate funding if it wishes to help secure the future of the rural network. The industry regulator, Postcomm, has been asked to provide advice to Government by the end of July on the future of rural post offices from 2006. Postcomm has asked Postwatch for its views in advance of its submission to Government.

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