Year: 2005

Deutsche Post under fire for massaging expectations

Posted by | May 3, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post, Europe’s largest postal service, has come under fire from lawyers and investors after the group prematurely issued analysts with operating figures ahead of its quarterly report next Monday.

A spokesperson for the German financial supervisory authority said that it would wait until the official figures are published on Monday, after reports in FT Deutschland, before they decided whether to take action against the company.

Lawyers told FT Deutschland, the Financial Times sister paper, that they believed the distribution of actual figures to analysts was a breach of German law.

“At a first glance what Deutsche Post has done is illegal. Market sensitive information has to be reported because it is information that can move the markets,” Klaus Rotter, an investment specialist said.

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DHL Express invests Eur 4.2 mln in new French Flevy site

Posted by | May 3, 2005 | |

International courier DHL Express, a subsidiary of German postal services provider Deutsche Post, has started the construction of its new site in Flevy, Moselle department, north eastern France, it was reported on May 3, 2005.

DHL has invested a total 4.2 mln euro (USD 5.39 mln), including for the land, in this new site, which will have a staff of some 100 employees. The new site should become operational as of September 1, 2005. The activities in the Flevy site will cover all the services offered by DHL including messages, express and road shipment in a unique site covering 27,500 sq m, where at first some 4,000 sq m, dedicated to loading platforms and 1,000 sq m to offices, will be set up. DHL has five other sites across the Moselle department.

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DHL bags Asian freight award

Posted by | May 3, 2005 | |

DHL was named the Best Express Operator at the 2005 Asian Freight and Supply Chain Awards in Singapore last month.

The company’s general manager (Pacific Islands), Paul Roper said they were delighted to have been recognised as leaders in the express business.

“This accolade is further vindication that the investments we are making in our infrastructure locally in Fiji and throughout Asia are translating into a real competitive advantage for our customers,” Mr Roper said.

DHL Express in Fiji is currently renovating a 1000square metre warehouse and office facility in Raiwaqa.

“We will be moving into our new facility in Suva at the end of June,” Mr Roper said.

“Once we have completed this project we will be able to offer Fiji a complete “One Stop Shop” freight centre.

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Bahraini Post Offices to accept payments of bills and taxes

Posted by | May 3, 2005 | |

Bahrain’s residents will be able to pay their bills for water and electricity consumption as well as their municipal taxes at post offices throughout Bahrain, it was reported on May 3, 2005.

Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU), signed between Bahrain’s Ministry of Electricity and Water, the Ministry of Finance and National Economy and the Communications Ministry, the Kingdom’s post offices in Sitra, Riffa and Budaiya started on May 2, 2005 accepting payments of water and electricity bills and municipal taxes under a two-month trial period. According to the MoU, the remaining post offices across Bahrain will start collecting bill payments by the year-end.

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Israeli Postal couriers to deliver rabbinical court papers

Posted by | May 2, 2005 | |

The Postal Authority has beaten five other companies to win the public tender for a NIS 5.5 million annual contract to deliver rabbinical court documents personally to those involved in cases.

Postal Authority director-general Yossi Shelley said that until now, the mail services delivered verdicts, summonses and other such documents by registered mail; now it will use messengers to deliver them by hand.

Rabbinical court system director Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan said that court services will now improve and be more efficient.

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Revamping Nigerian Postal Services

Posted by | May 2, 2005 | |

The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) recently unveiled a new logo and postmen’s uniform in Abuja.

It also announced its objective of a 48-hour delivery time. The Minister of Communication Chief Cornelius Adebayo on the occasion stressed the determination of the federal government to ensure a speedy and safe postal system. The Postmaster General of the Federation reiterated the vision of NIPOST to be the best customer-responsive organisation in Nigeria and the best postal service in Africa and one of the best in the world, there was the need to change the old logo because of the wide criticism that it was outdated and expensive to produce due to its many colours.

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Nonprofits, USPS agree on Standard Mail Rule

Posted by | May 2, 2005 | |

Nonprofit mailers are celebrating an agreement with the U.S. Postal Service regarding the interpretation of an impending rule that seeks to clarify the application of Standard mail rates in mail that includes personalisation.
Slated to take effect June 1, the rule requires that mail including personal information for any purpose other than a solicitation must be sent at the First-Class rate rather than the cheaper Standard rate. After several test rulings from the USPS, nonprofits feared that solicitations would be meant to include requests for monetary donations only.

Because the First-Class rate is three times as expensive in some cases, nonprofit mailers worried that mail including common types of personalisation for reasons other than asking for money — such as a request for volunteers — would get hit with the higher rate.

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Congressman calls for Philippine Post privatisation

Posted by | May 2, 2005 | |

A congressman has called for the creation of a postal system that will provide “world-class postal services for Filipinos worldwide” and generate additional revenues for the cash-strapped government. Liberal Party Rep. Hermilando I. Mandanas of Batangas broached the idea of putting up a new Philippine Postal Corp. by privatising the state-run Philippine Postal Agency.

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