Year: 2005

UK Royal Mail Group changes plans for bulky post

Posted by | Mar 30, 2005 | |

Royal Mail has amended its plans for size-based pricing to provide limited relief for companies that send light but bulky items through the post, including mail order photo finishers and compact disc retailers.

The proposals, which still have to be approved by regulator Postcomm, are more generous to some companies sending bulky packages than the initial plans outlined last April. But Royal Mail is sticking with its intention of abandoning its practice of charging solely according to weight.

The move to size-based pricing is supported by many in the mail order industry, including homeware retailers. But it is opposed by greeting card makers, magazine publishers and mail order photo finishers, who claim it would cost their industries millions of pounds in extra postage.

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Nipost Earns N3.3bn in 2004

Posted by | Mar 30, 2005 | |

Nigerian Postal Services (NiPost) raked in a total of N3,301,050,514.57 as internally generated revenue (IGR) for the year 2004.

Minister of Communication, Chief Cornelius Adebayo who stated this during the official launching of NiPost’s Logo and Postmen Uniform, disclosed that the organization is striving to meet a new target of 48 hours delivery.

Chief Adebayo who reiterated that NiPost has turned out to be an enviable parastatal of the communication ministry, pointed out that apart from being the official courier of the presidency for local and international mail, “NiPost” is now the benchmark for mail circulation in Africa as declared by the Universal Postal Union (UPU).

He explained that NiPost had purchased 359 new motocycles, Eight new Peugeot partner vans, 17 fairly used Starlet cars and four Mitsubishi cargo buses as part of its repositioning effort.

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Two new UPS initiatives deliver environmental benefits

Posted by | Mar 29, 2005 | |

UPS is implementing two new initiatives to protect the environment – 11,000 computers soon will automatically go to “sleep” when not in use, and 14 California facilities have begun purchasing “green” power.

UPS also has joined the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership.

“Energy conservation and choosing renewable energy sources are just two of the many ways UPS actively pursues its commitment to sustainable business practices,” said Mike Herr, UPS vice president of environmental affairs. “We have always believed that working green and working smart are synonymous.”

The computer initiative is part of what’s known as the ENERGY STAR® Million Monitor Drive. UPS is installing “sleep” software on 11,000 of its computers in Atlanta, Louisville, Towson, Md., and Mahwah, N.J., to conserve energy while saving the company almost USD145,000 per year.

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DHL Philippines considering online payment service to clients

Posted by | Mar 29, 2005 | |

Courier company DHL Express (Philippines) Corp. is considering offering an online payment service to local customers.

The service is seen to complete the end-to-end e-commerce offer of a company that will address a market that is still slow in using electronic commerce services. The online payment service is being developed in conjunction with the redesign of the website.

The local arm of DHL is currently upgrading its website, which is part of the “rebranding exercise” all DHL operations worldwide are going through as a result of the acquisition of Deutsche Post World Net of DHL International in December 2002.

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Eesti Post audited financial results for 2004

Posted by | Mar 29, 2005 | |

The profit of AS Eesti Post exceeded budgetary expectations by one-third. Owing a halt in the increase of costs and greater income from logistics services and universal postal services, the group’s profits grew by 23.1% to MEEK 29.3 compared to the year 2003. According to Jüri Ehasalu, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of AS Eesti Post, the company’s financial results for the previous year are the expected result of the changes made in the company’s management. “I am glad that progress was made both in terms of service
volumes and quality,” said Ehasalu. Peeter Raudsepp, Chairman of the Management Board of AS Eesti Post added that the company’s financial results were very good in a situation where the prices of fuel, electricity and other resources necessary for postal services have gone up substantially and the
company only expected a profit of MEEK 22. “A targeted reduction of management costs and continuing greater sales of express services also play important roles in generating a greater profit.”
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New Royal Mail price proposals to incorporate size and format leave 70% of mail unaffected

Posted by | Mar 29, 2005 | |

Royal Mail today published new proposals for pricing mail mainly based on size, which could affect up to 20% of items sent by consumers, and up to 30% of the UK’s total business and consumer mailbag. The changes, which are subject to regulatory approval, would not be introduced until April 2006. They would move postal prices in line with costs by removing some of the hidden cross subsidies funded by high charges to customers sending certain items which are cheaper for postal operators to handle. UK mail prices have historically been set purely on the basis of weight, even though the size and shape of items are what largely determine the costs of collecting, sorting and delivering letters and packets. The new prices would be mainly based on the format of the item being sent.

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Background on Odewald & Cie

Posted by | Mar 29, 2005 | |

Some info re Odewald/Trans-o-flex from Ludwig-Michael Cremer)
Odwald & Cie are a private equity company with several hundreds of
million Euros which should be invested primarily in logistics
providers. The founder and chief of the company, Dr. Jens Odewald, has
been a former Logistics Chief of Kaufhof. He and his wife are fans and
friends of former German chancler Helmut Kohl and have been the largest
sponsors of Kohl when he collected money to pay the fine, his party was
filed because of illegal fund raising through Kohl himself. NB: Odewald
was the guy who brought together Peter Amberger and Dr. Klaus Zumwinkel
when Deutsche Post bought trans-o-flex.

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German DHL Logistics to open centre for Gillette in Poland

Posted by | Mar 28, 2005 | |

German logistics service company DHL Logistics will open a logistics centre in Poland, to be used by the US-based razorblade maker Gillette, in early April 2005.

Gillette’s 18,000 sq m logistics centre, to be located in Dabrowa Gornicza, in the Katowice Special Economic Zone (Katowice SEZ), in southern Poland, will be the largest distribution centre of Gillette in Europe, Katowice SEZ authorities said.

The centre will be build on a 28-hectare land, purchased by the UK-based property developer Parkridge Developments in 2004. DHL Logistics is a business partner of Parkridge Developments and prepares logistics centres for investors in the Katowice SEZ.

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