Focus on mail – how to improve
Presentation at WME Europe 05 by Aad Weening, Secretary General EMOTA.
Distance selling – how to improve, perceived barriers, market potential.
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Year: 2005
TPN close to share offer
The Pallet Network is set to open up its share holding to network member companies. Chairman Richard Eldred is canvassing views among 70-strong network membership and from firms that are considering joining.
The member-owned model is seen to have worked well at Palletline and at PalletForce. Indeed, PalletForce is setting the pace among the middle-ranking pallet networks. And some TPN members of the APC parcels firm.
UPS pilots vote to authorize strike
The union for United Parcel Service Inc said more than 99% of its members have voted to give the authority to call a strike to the union’s five-pilot executive board. Of the 2,462 eligible crewmembers, 2,371 pilots participated in the strike vote, the Independent Pilots Association said in a press release Thursday. Of those who voted, 99% participated in favor of a strike.
Read MoreAdvanced technology is working!
Presentation at WME Europe 05 by Kalle Tarien, Member of the Management Board, Eesti Post.
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Pakistan Post Offices to collect utility bills
Minister for Communication Shahmim Siddique on Tuesday said another 10,000 post offices throughout the country are likely to collect utility bills’ dues. Speaking in a PTV programme, he said negotiation in this regards are in progress which would hopefully be finalised soon. He said presently about 2500 post offices across the country are offering such a facility to the people. The minister said it is also under consideration to facilitate passport office in issuing passport.
He explained that the post offices’ duty will be to collect data from the person who wanted to acquire a passport and then send it to the passport office for further action. To a question he said the ministry has also offered such a facility to Nadra.
Read MoreAustrian Post closes 310 offices
Austrian postal company Oesterreichische Post (Post AG) plans to close 310 post offices by the middle of 2005 after negotiations with the country’s provincial governments, it was reported on May 11, 2005. Originally Post AG wanted to close 357 of its 1,640 post offices. In 47 cases the company reconsidered and decided to follow their commercial development until 2006/2007. With the closures Post AG hopes to save 22.7 mln euro (USD29.2 mln) a year by 2007.
Read MoreUS Postal Service holding strong in overnight delivery
Postmaster General John E. Potter told to Postal Service Board of Governors today that the agency continues to deliver record service and customer satisfaction across the nation. “Nationally, we achieved an on-time score of 95 percent for overnight First-Class Mail service for the 9th consecutive quarter. We also achieved a customer satisfaction measurement score of 93 percent marking the 14th consecutive quarter at that mark or better. The board also heard from Chief Financial Officer Richard J. Strasser, Jr., that mail volume in the 2nd Quarter showed a gain of 600 million pieces, to 52.1 billion, and a USD17 million increase in revenue.
Read MoreUPS is gaining momentum in 2nd quarter volume growth
Citing good momentum through the first five weeks of the quarter, UPS executives today said US domestic volume growth was “well ahead” of expectations for the second quarter and international export volume continued to climb at its expected double-digit rate. The gain in domestic volume follows a first quarter in which UPS reported significant international export package growth and a strong 16.2% gain in net income. UPS today said it continues to expect a strong 2005 with full-year net income growth of 16-to-20% over the adjusted USD2.90 reported for 2004.
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