Year: 2003

Germans offer alternative to Australia Post

Posted by | Jun 10, 2003 | |

If you are sending mail abroad, there is a new alternative to Australia Post: the Germans.

Pack & Send, the national postal and packaging retail franchise, teamed up with Deutsche Post Global Mail last month to offer customers the Global Mail Packet, for the worldwide delivery of parcels weighing less than two kilograms.

“Deutsche Post Global Mail came to us because they wanted to enter the small business market by leveraging off our retail network,” said Pack & Send’s managing director, Michael Paul . “The alliance will allow us to provide the market with an alternative to Australia Post.”

DPGM has worked in Australia since July 2000, but has concentrated on bulk, business-to-business deliveries rather than small parcels.

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NZ Post banking on further growth

Posted by | Jun 10, 2003 | |

Letter volumes have continued to increase this year, underpinning NZ Post profits, but new chief executive John Allen accepts the tide is turning. Replacing letters as the mainstream source of revenue for the state-owned postal service will be fully owned subsidiary Kiwibank. “If you go out a decade, then I would expect the banking business to be about the same size as the traditional core businesses of NZ Post,” said Allen, a former head of the letters division. “We have seen continued growth in letter volume, but how long that will be the case is the significant question that confronts all postal businesses,” said the 42-year-old, who took over at NZ Post last month.

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Russia hikes tariffs on postal services

Posted by | Jun 10, 2003 | |

New tariffs on universal postal services (i.e. sending postal cards, letters and parcels) take effect in Russia today. From now on, sending a postal card will cost RUR3.15 (about $0.1), an ordinary letter RUR4.25 ($0.14), a registered letter RUR6.3 ($0.21) and a parcel RUR7.4 ($0.24).

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Russia Govt considering development of postal services

Posted by | Jun 10, 2003 | |

The Russian government, at its meeting here on Tuesday, will consider a concept of the development of the postal services market in a period ending in 2010.

According to the document, prepared by the Ministry of Communications, by 2010 letters are to be delivered throughout Russia within six days at most. Within the boundaries of one populated area, written correspondence is expected to reach addressees within one working day (at present, most of letters are delivered to their destinations within a space of about three weeks)

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Russian govt approves plan for Postal Service development

Posted by | Jun 10, 2003 | |

The Russian government approved a plan for developing the country’s postal service Tuesday, Russia’s Communications and IT Ministry said.

The government required the Communications and IT Ministry to present a detailed version of the concept as well as a plan for its implementation by September 1.

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French post office takes anti-strike measures

Posted by | Jun 10, 2003 | |

The French post office (La Poste) has stressed that, apart from the one-day strike on May 13, relatively few of its 320,000 employees have so far participated in the general industrial action taken against the French government’s proposed reforms to the pensions system.

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Russian ministry hikes postal service tariffs 15%

Posted by | Jun 10, 2003 | |

Russia’s Telecommunications and IT Ministry has hiked postal service tariffs by an average of 15% as of Tuesday, ITAR-TASS reported quoting a source in the Anti-Monopoly Ministry.

Now it costs 3.15 rubles to send a post card, up from 2.75 rubles.

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