Year: 2005

Royal Mail Group silent on post trains return

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

Royal Mail stayed tight-lipped today about a claim that postal trains are set for a permanent return to the railways.

The state-owned group declined to comment on a report that it is poised to sign a one-year rolling contract with railfreight company GBRf to run mail trains between London and Scotland.

Royal Mail ended all postal services on the railways in January last year after failing to agree a new deal with incumbent operator English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS).

Royal Mail claimed EWS’s new bid was too expensive and moved all post to road and air.

The cost-cutting move controversially ended more than 160 years of mail trains and the famous Travelling Post Offices, which sorted letters on the move.

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Japanese Government LDP execs reach accord on postal privatisation

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

The government got the nod Monday from executives of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on its postal privatization policy, having accepted most of the party’s requests designed to water down the plan to fully privatize postal savings and life insurance services.

The accord is aimed at concluding the months of political bickering between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s government and the LDP, and clearing the way for the government to adopt a set of postal privatization bills on Tuesday.

But LDP lawmakers opposing the policy remained discontent and may not support the bills when they are put to a vote in the Diet.

Koizumi wants to submit the bills to parliament by Thursday to see them passed during the ongoing Diet session through June 19.

Speaking briefly to reporters at his office, Koizumi said the government has made no concessions in terms of changing the bill’s outline.

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GLS group expands European footprint

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

GLS, the Royal Mail-owned international parcels group, has strengthened its European network with several financial investments and expansion moves. In the Czech Republic, it launched a start-up subsidiary on 1 April and will invest EUR 2m in the new company, including EUR 0.6m in the first year. In Poland, the group has bought 100% control of GLS Poland in which it previously held 25.1% and plans a system partnership with the previous majority shareholder, the Raben Group. In Spain, GLS is expanding through its own network and a new partnership. Barcelona-based subsidiary Extand Sistema was renamed GLS Spain in March. At the same time, the group is now co-operating with Chronoexpress, a subsidiary of the Spanish post office Correos.

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UK postal workers’ reward scheme to be repeated

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

A scheme to reward postal workers with new cars and holiday vouchers in a drive to reduce sickness absence is to be repeated after attendance levels increased by more than 10percent, it was learned today.

The Royal Mail said 37 workers won a new car, 75 won GBP2,000 worth of holiday vouchers and more than 90,000 won GBP150 worth of holiday vouchers.

Daily attendance levels increased by almost 11percent after the scheme was launched last August, figures showed today.

Sickness absence levels averaged 5.7percent between August and January, compared to an average of 6.4percent in the same period in the previous year.

This represented an extra 1,000 people at work collecting, sorting and delivering mail.

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DHL Colombia imports up 36.5 Pct Y/Y Q1 2005

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

The imports of DHL Colombia, the Colombian unit of the global carrier and package delivery company DHL Express, part of the German postal services operator Deutsche Post, grew 36.5 pct year-on-year for the first quarter of 2005, it was reported on April 22, 2005.

The volumes transported by DHL to Colombia grew 51.2 pct year-on-year for the quarter. The import services sales grew 37.05 pct year-on-year for the quarter.

DHL Colombia, has considerably strengthened its position on the Colombian market mainly due to its revised market strategy, the company’s Andres Vallejo, said.

The company has performed a number of promotion campaigns and has diversified its services in Colombia, Vallejo added.

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Teamsters target DHL

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

As it battles for a larger share of express shipping in the United States, DHL is getting the attention of more than just shippers and competitors. The express giant is facing an aggressive effort by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union to organize the company’s independent delivery workforce. Started in force late last summer, the union campaign has recruited about 1,500 employees at DHL’s independent cartage contractors to the union ranks, said Rebecca Hanscom, national campaign coordinator for the DHL system at the Teamsters. That is just a fraction of the 10,000 independent delivery agents at DHL, but the union is mounting a national and grassroots campaign to recruit the balance. The objective is to recruit members at the local level, forge regional agreements and eventually press for a master contract covering all DHL employees.

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Deutsche Post rivals seek more access to mail sorting and delivery

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

At least two competitors of Deutsche Post World Net AG want to have more access to the mail sorting, consolidating and delivery business, according to Financial Times Deutschland, citing Post rival GLS.

GLS chief executive Rico Back said he is confident GLS would be able to force Deutsche Post to open up its monopoly in this area.

Meanwhile Consultancy firm DID Vedat Deniz, which specialises in postal monopoly issues, told the same newspaper it is acting on behalf of a second interested party which is also seeking access to the logistics company.

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Italy Poste Italiane to employ staff in Basilicata

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

Italian state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane plans to employ personnel in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, the regional secretaries of Italian trade unions Slc-Cgil, Slp Cisl and Uilpost said on April 23, 2005.

According to the trade unions, after a meeting with managers of Poste Italiane, it became clear that the company will not employ 100 workers with permanent employment contracts, as it was previously announced.

Poste Italiane will employ 20 in Potenza and five in Matera with permanent contracts, another 10 with fixed-term contracts, 17 to substitute the persons during the summer holidays, and 21 to substitute other missing employees.

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