Since the 1980s, Australia Post has transformed itself from a dowdy utility, with poor technology and worse industrial relations, into a model government business with a chief executive, Graeme John , who earns nearly $2 million. Now it is time to let this state-owned Cinderella face its competitors without artificial props.
Read MoreThe Competition Commission has sent an issues letter, to March UK, as part of its inquiry into the recent acquisition of the home shopping and home delivery businesses of GUS.
Such letters are always sent before the Commission has reached any conclusions and are designed to highlight matters that have been identified for further consideration. This statement is being made public to give interested parties the opportunity to bring to the Commission’s attention, in the next two weeks, any further points that they wish to raise. The Commission has reached no conclusions about whether any matters operate or may be expected to operate against the public interest and will not do so until after it has discussed these issues with the parties concerned.
Read MorePoste Italiane, the state-owned mail service, made a profit in the first half of 2003 (€2 million). In the year earlier period, Poste Italian lost €61.9 million. Sales increased in the reporting period by 3.6% year-on-year to €3.78 billion.
Read MoreTPG Post Italia, a subsidiary of the Dutch mail, express and logistics company TPG NV, has acquired a 100% stake in the Italian print & mail company Full Service. Full Service established a data processing, printing and outsourcing of data-related services business. In 2002, Full Service generated revenues of €2.5 million.
Read MoreRoyal Mail chairman Allan Leighton unexpectedly turned up at a mass meeting in an unsuccessful bid to persuade postal workers to end an unofficial strike.
He addressed hundreds of postmen and women in Greenford, west London, where wildcat action had started and has since spread to other parts of the capital.
The workers listened to Mr Leighton, but then confronted him with allegations about bullying and intimidation by managers as well as complaining about their pay rates.
“He went away with his tail between his legs,” said one of the strikers.
Read MoreThe Postal Service has proposed a new rule requiring sender identification of discount-rate mail, which is considered the first step toward removing the anonymity of all mailings. Covered under the new proposal would be first-class mail, periodicals, standard mail or package-services mailing eligible for any discounted postage rate. The new proposed regulations were prompted by the anthrax mailings two years ago this month that killed five people and sickened 13 others. The sender was never caught.
Read MoreDHL Express has committed to continue investing in the Philippines despite concerns raised by some foreign investors in the wake of the controversy surrounding the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 project.
German airport operator Fraport AG has filed an arbitration case with the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes against the Philippine government. Fraport is seeking compensation worth USD425 million for the investment it has made in the yet-to-be-opened Naia 3.DHL Asia Pacific chief executive John Mullen said in an interview that the raging controversy would not deter the firm from making additional investments in the country.
Read MoreThe new initiative hinges on the Postal Service’s One Code vision, in which a single bar code will be used to identify the 200 billion items delivered each year. Postal Service officials will scan mail as it comes into a post office and then use various computer systems to track it as it moves from origin to destination.
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