Year: 2003

Postcomm demands information on UK Royal Mail discounts

Posted by | Nov 26, 2003 | |

Postcomm has received information which suggests that Royal Mail is offering substantial discounts to attract catalogue mail. These discounts have not been notified by Royal Mail to Postcomm or published in accordance with Condition 7 of its licence. They were also subject to confidentiality agreements. Postcomm accordingly yesterday (26 November 2003) served a provisional enforcement order on Royal Mail requiring it to provide detailed information about the alleged discounts, to maintain all documents and records, and to refrain from departing from its published tariffs without proper notice to Postcomm and publication.
Royal Mail today notified Postcomm that it will comply with the order.

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Canada Post increases price of stamps

Posted by | Nov 26, 2003 | |

The Canadian federal cabinet has approved sharp price hikes in stamps for mail to the U.S. and other countries, along with an automatic one-cent increase in the cost of mailing a first-class letter in January.

While the cost of a stamp for domestic letters weighing up to 30g will rise to 49c, plus GST, on Jan. 12, the cost of stamps for letters, cards and postcards to the U.S. will jump 23% to 80c, under an order cabinet passed last week.

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An Post Resists Pressure for Postal Zip Code

Posted by | Nov 25, 2003 | |

Historians have joined forces with An Post to resist pressure to introduce US and European-style zip codes here. Prof Ruairi O hUiginn, a lecturer at the department of Modern Irish in NUI, Maynooth, told a symposium on the issue that place names were an important part of Irish life which often dated back to Celtic Ireland and our earliest literature. And An Post added that it did not believe that Irish people would be willing to use the codes. The commercial director of An Post, Derek Kickham, told the symposium that while the postal code system would have been valuable if it had been introduced in the ’60s, the technology An Post now had in place meant the system would not be economically justified.

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UPS subsidiary helping customers realign delivery routes, save mileage

Posted by | Nov 25, 2003 | |

A small subsidiary of UPS is making a big impact on behalf of its customers through the deployment of computer software that allows exquisitely precise planning of delivery routes.

The software, known as the Roadnet™ Transportation Suite, is offered by UPS Logistics Technologies and is being used by grocery stores, beverage bottlers and snack food companies, among others, to shave miles off their delivery networks.

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German Express Mail service suspends flight to Afghanistan

Posted by | Nov 25, 2003 | |

The world’s largest express mail service DHL has announced that it has suspended cargo flights to Afghanistan due to security concerns.

A spokesman for the Deutsche Post, which owns DHL, said that the Bonn-based company is reviewing the situation in Afghanistan before making further decisions.

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Colombia's postal service updates systems

Posted by | Nov 25, 2003 | |

National (Adpostal), the Colombian state postal service, has announced that it has begun the modernization of its management, operating and financial systems with the installation of two software programs provided by the Universal Postal Union. These are the International Postal System and the Financial System, which will permit an improvement in services, reduce delivery times and monitoring of deliveries.

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Argentine government takes control of troubled post office

Posted by | Nov 25, 2003 | |

The Argentinian government has taken control of the country’s troubled post office. Six years after the management of Correo Argentino was privatised, Buenos Aires has cancelled the local Macri group’s 30-year contract and will assume control until it can award a new concession.

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