Year: 2003

China Post's market share to erode further amid foreign rivalry

Posted by | Sep 4, 2003 | |

China’s State Post Bureau (China Post) will maintain its dominance in the domestic courier service sector in the coming years, but will see its market share in international express mail forwarding further eroded by increased foreign rivalry.

To protect the local industry, the Chinese government bans foreign forwarding firms from the domestic express mail delivery sector and only allows them to offer international courier service through joint ventures with local partners, Zhang Guotian, an analyst with China Merchants Securities said.

However, restrictions have failed to curb foreign firms rapidly expanding in the country, Zhang said.

Major global players, such as DHL Worldwide Express, FedEx Corp, United Parcel Service Inc and TNT Express, have grabbed a 62% combined market share in the international forwarding service sector over the past 10 years.

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Pall-Ex strengthens service for Eire

Posted by | Sep 4, 2003 | |

Road & Sea Express, market leaders in high quality delivery services to and from Scotland, Ireland and the offshore Islands, has joined the Pall-Ex network to serve Eire.

Alan Cramley, sales and marketing director at Pall-Ex, said: “We are delighted that Road & Sea Express has become part of our network. Their excellent reputation and unrivalled experience in transporting goods to and from Eire will further strengthen the services we can offer. This comes at a time when we are expanding our services further in the UK as well as across Europe.”

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Czech Post Office To Lose Some Of Its Monopoly

Posted by | Sep 4, 2003 | |

The monopoly of state-owned Czech Post Office Ceska posta (CP) will weaken again next May, as the cabinet has decided to cut the maximum weight of consignments that CP delivers as the only company on the market, IT Ministry spokeswoman Klara Volna told CTK today.

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Ireland's An Post accused of misleading Govt

Posted by | Sep 4, 2003 | |

Beleaguered State postal service An Post has come under fire again, this time from the Government which has accused it of providing “seriously inaccurate” information about its worsening financial situation.

In a scathing letter sent by Communications Minister Dermot Ahern to An Post chairwoman Margaret McGinley, concern is expressed at the jump in the company’s losses at a time when its finances were supposedly under control.

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UK Royal Mail pricing plan angers direct marketing industry

Posted by | Sep 4, 2003 | |

Royal Mail has angered the direct marketing industry by asking postal regulator Postcomm to consider a proposal to price mail by size rather than weight.

Royal Mail claims that the method is an easier pricing system that more accurately reflects the costs of handling mail because it is the size and shape, not the weight, which determines the cost of processing and delivering most mail.

Many direct marketing companies believe that the proposals will be a handicap to the industry. A common claim is that the proposed charging system will stifle creativity, forcing the industry to move towards standard small packaging.

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Japan, China and South Korean Postal authorities in cooperation agreement

Posted by | Sep 4, 2003 | |

Postal authorities from Japan, China and South Korea have agreed to enhance cooperation to improve their services, including the express mail service (EMS), Japan Post said.

The accord was reached during a meeting in Tokyo, which was attended by high-ranking postal officials from the three countries.

They agreed to help each other so that the three countries’ postal administrators can start at an early date guaranteeing the time of deliveries by EMS, which is an international quick delivery service for documents and goods.

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UK Royal Mail to cut air services

Posted by | Sep 4, 2003 | |

Royal Mail, under fire for scrapping its mail trains, has said it would reduce the number of air services it uses in the latest stage of a £90m cost-cutting programme.

The state-owned company now uses 39 flights each week night, from 24 airports, to distribute 6.6 or 5.5m, of the 82m letters it delivers each day.

Under its new “hub-and-spoke” network, Royal Mail now intends switching from turboprop aircraft to bigger jets capable of carrying containerised mail.

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Mozambique Post Office unable to pay its debts

Posted by | Sep 4, 2003 | |

The Mozambican post office cannot pay its debts, and wants the government to take care of them.

According to the new chairman of the post office board, Benjamim Pequenino, the debt stands at around nine billion meticais (about 378,000 US dollars).

Pequenino told reporters that his top priority is to pay off wage arrears, which amount to rather more than 900 million meticais. Thus postal workers in Gaza, Inhambane and Cabo Delgado provinces have not received their wages for the past four months, and those in Zambezia for two months. This situation has been blamed on mismanagement by the previous board.

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