Year: 2003

Minister delivers rural funding for N Ireland post offices

Posted by | Apr 25, 2003 | |

Ulster’s struggling rural post offices were yesterday given a cash boost of GBP750,000. NIO Minister Des Browne announced the funding after a News Letter campaign highlighted how postmasters in rural communities were fighting for survival. Mr Browne said it was important people in the most disadvantaged urban communities continue to have access to the vital services provided by post offices. Consumer watchdog, Postwatch Northern Ireland, said the funding was “a much needed boost for post offices in deprived areas”.

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UK milkmen set to deliver business post to households alongside daily pints

Posted by | Apr 25, 2003 | |

Letters and parcels will soon become a regular feature of the morning milk delivery. Express Dairies, which runs 3,500 milk rounds across the country, has won a long-term licence to compete with Royal Mail, delivering business post to households. The new licence, which will have a minimum life of seven years, will allow Express to deliver up to 46m postal items each year. It replaces an interim licence, granted by regulator Postcomm last summer, which allowed Express to deliver up to 4.6m packets and letters from businesses to households.

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Japan Post suspends express mail service to Nigeria

Posted by | Apr 25, 2003 | |

Japan Post said Friday it has decided to suspend its express mail service (EMS) to Nigeria. Japan Post said a total of 194 letters sent via EMS since the beginning of this year have been undelivered and that it will suspend EMS to Nigeria until a route to ensure such mail is delivered is confirmed. But Japan Post said it will continue to handle other types of mail to the African country.

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DHL Magyarorszag (Hungary) sees best growth in 20 years

Posted by | Apr 24, 2003 | |

DHL Magyarorszag Kft’s (DHL) pre-tax profits rose 130pc last year to HUF 270m, unaudited figures show. Preliminary net profits more than doubled to HUF 216m, marketing manager Anna Papp-Vary told MTI. Net revenues rose 44pc last year to HUF 5.7bn. Since it set up business in Hungary nearly 20 years ago, DHL has never before seen growth as rapid as in 2002.(HUF 100 = EUR 0.4071)

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DHL Worldwide workers strike in Germany

Posted by | Apr 24, 2003 | |

Workers at DHL Worldwide Express, a German unit of mail and logistics giant Deutsche Post AG, walked off their jobs for several hours Thursday to press demands for a 5-percent pay raise. The company has offered a 1.8 percent raise in two rounds of talks on a new contract covering 2,700 employees. The next round is set for May 7-8.

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Five courier firms to be allowed to conduct special mail deliver business in Japan

Posted by | Apr 24, 2003 | |

The Japaneses posts ministry said Thursday it will allow five private courier service firms to conduct special mail-delivery business. Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama is expected to issue licenses to the five firms — Bike Kyubin Co., Sokuhai Co., Kyukago, Q-Post and Tokai Messenger Bb Inc. — on Friday, ministry officials said. The move comes after Japan Post, a new state-run corporation, took over mail delivery and postal savings April 1 from the government as part of postal service deregulation.

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French post office hopes to speed up parcel service

Posted by | Apr 23, 2003 | |

The French post office (La Poste) yesterday revealed that its parcel services generated a turnover of 3.07bn euros last year in a market where competition it at a maximum. La Poste’s earnings in that sector, which account for 18 per cent of its total turnover, were achieved by its parcels divisions, Colipost and Geopost.

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European Commission intends to exempt REIMS II from the antitrust rules but requires third party access

Posted by | Apr 23, 2003 | |

Today, the Commission published a notice in the Official Journal inviting third parties to submit their comments on the so-called Agreement for the Remuneration of Mandatory Deliveries of Cross-Border Mails (REIMS II). REIMS II is an agreement on the remuneration that public postal operators (PPOs)° pay each other for the delivery of incoming cross-border mail. This remuneration is also referred to as “terminal dues”. Seventeen PPOs from the European Union and the EEA are parties to the REIMS II agreement. After receiving the comments of interested third parties to be submitted one month after publication of the OJ the Commission will take a final decision on whether the system of terminal dues can be exempted from the antitrust rules. The Commission will also decide on the length of the exemption to be granted.

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