Year: 2003

Dispute between DHL and US competitors intensifies

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

The dispute between DHL, the express delivery service owned by Deutsche Post, the German postal service, and its US competitors FedEx and UPS has intensified. UPS and FedEx have accused DHL of having exclusive agreements with two US airlines, Astar and ABX Air, and of controlling these two airlines. However, the two US delivery companies have now been accused of hypocrisy by those in the sector, who claim that their practices in Europe mirror those of DHL in the US: UPS has an exclusive agreement with Danish airline Star Air, while FedEx controls the German airline Express Airways.

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Belgium CertiPost goes into hybrid registered mail

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

Certipost, the 50-50 joint venture between Belgium Post and Belgacom, is expanding its portfolio with a new internally developed hybrid registered mail service. The company’s repertoire already includes e-billing, e-government, digital IDs, secure electronic messaging and document delivery. Scheduled to launch sometime between now and the end of January, the hybrid service will give mailers the flexibility to send either paper-based registered mail or registered e-mail.

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GeoPost selects Neopost for all its internet parcel shipping services

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

Neopost – Europe’s leading supplier of mailing solutions and logistics systems -and GeoPost – a holding company for the French and European parcels subsidiaries of La Poste – have signed an agreement under which Neopost will
supply its Cyberstation© system to GeoPost’s operational units (Chronopost
International, DPD, Tat Express etc.). The system has been developed by Neopost Logistics Systems, and the first service to use it is Chronopost International’s ChronoShip OnLine. Cyberstation© will enable customers of GeoPost’s operational units to prepare shipments, print the corresponding consignment notes and manage their address book over the Internet.

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UK Royal Mail predicts record e-xmas

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

UK’s Royal Mail are forecasting a recordbreaking e-Christmas this year with shoppers set to spend $5.8 billion on gifts ordered over the Internet.

The Royal Mail expects to deliver over 40 million of the 70 million items that’ll be ordered online, double the number it handled last year.

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Royal Mail fails to deliver says watchdog

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

The Royal Mail was accused of failing to deliver yesterday after new figures revealed that millions of letters and other vital redirected post goes missing each year. It is estimated that 7.5 million letters which people pay to have redirected when they move house or business never get delivered. Which? magazine, published by the Consumers’ Association, discovered that 3% of the letters sent by 1.4 million people who pay to have post redirected never get to their destination.

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UK Royal Mail fails to deliver says watchdog

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

The Royal Mail has been accused of failing to deliver after new figures revealed that millions of letters and other vital redirected post goes missing each year.

It is estimated that 7.5 million letters which people pay to have redirected when they move house or business never get delivered.

Which? magazine, published by the Consumers’ Association, discovered that 3% of the letters sent by 1.4 million people who pay to have post redirected never get to their destination.

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Danish Sondagsavisen A/S accuses Post Danmark of price dumping

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

The Danish advertisements publishing and distribution company Sondagsavisen A/S has said that it had brought an action against the Danish postal services company Post Danmark before the Danish competition authority Konkurrencestyrelsen.

Sondagsavisen said that it believed Post Danmark had violated its accounting regulations and performed illegal cross subsidisation in offering unaddressed door-to-door distribution of printed matter at loss-making prices.

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Dutch and Germans plot UK postal invasion

Posted by | Dec 7, 2003 | |

The 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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