TNT, one of the world’s leading companies in global express distribution, logistics and mail, has launched a faster express mail service (EMS) – Euro Best, between China and Europe.
Express mail from Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo will be able to reach 12 European cities including Paris, London, Amsterdam, Milan, Geneva and Madrid within one day, according to a recent TNT press statement.
Read MoreIn the first privately funded and operated airlift in the history of the
United Nations World Food Programme, TPG/TNT Airways this weekend transported urgently needed WFP humanitarian supplies destined for Eastern Chad where thousands of Sudanese refugees are sheltering. By transporting the goods over the weekend when demands for commercial activities are at their lowest, TPG was able to assist WFP’s emergency response activities in a very cost effective and flexible manner.
The U.S. Postal Service said deep cost cuts helped it finish $300 million in the black in 2003 despite a record decline in first-class mail volume. The net increase for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 contrasted sharply with last year’s loss of $676 million, triggered by the largest-ever slide in overall mail volume.
The USPS will seek an $884 million federal appropriation for the fiscal year beginning next October, nearly all of it to help pay for ongoing automation upgrades to the mail processing system to guard against bioterror and other threats. Those changes were ordered after the deadly anthrax attacks in 2001.
Read MoreThe Italian communications ministry is said to have classified more than 5,000 small post offices in various parts of Italy as uneconomical. The branches in question are all unable to cover their operating costs, with almost 1,500 of them making a loss. Each of them serves fewer than 500 households.
Read MoreThe threat of a strike by postal workers in London in the run-up to Christmas ended today when union leaders gave an assurance that deliveries will not be disrupted. Postmen and women in the capital had warned of two 24-hour strikes later this month in a long running dispute over London Weighting allowances. But Dave Ward, deputy general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, said today he wanted to dispel any fears that postal workers would do anything to “ruin” Christmas.
Read MoreThe Postal Service of the Republic of Korea (Korea Post) and mail, express
and logistics company TPG N.V. today announced that they have signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will provide the foundation for a
broad strategic co-operation. This builds upon the successful partnership in
international express between Korea Post and TPG that was entered into in
2001.
Parcelforce Worldwide is understood to be talking to agencies about its £5m advertising and direct marketing business.
The account is held by the integrated response agency Ladders, which changed its name from Soup earlier this year. Lowe previously handled the advertising account, but its contract with Parcelforce ended last year.
Parcelforce changed its positioning 18 months ago, axeing its non- guaranteed services to concentrate on its time-guaranteed and express services. It ran its first advertising campaign for six years supporting the new positioning earlier this year.
Read MoreThe two continental postal giants, Germany’s Deutsche Post and the quoted Dutch group TPG, are both competing to buy one of Britain’s biggest independent private mail companies. Deutsche Post and TPG have asked advisers to study the imminent sale of DX Mail, the £250m document exchange and specialist courier business owned by Hays. The delivery business is made more attractive by the fact it was recently awarded the first long-term licence to introduce additional mail services for businesses from Postcomm, the industry regulator.
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