Year: 2005

Postal strike averted in Ireland as union accepts labor court’s ruling

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

A threatened strike in Ireland’s national postal service was averted Wednesday when the major labor union accepted a compromise ruling from the Irish Labour Court. The 10-page ruling called for directors of An Post to give workers a previously agreed 5 percent raise immediately and a further 2.5 percent raise next May. The Communication Workers Union, which represents about 8,500 workers at An Post, said they would accept the proposal and cancel their previous plan to strike before Christmas.

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Deutsche Post to close down further post offices

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post has announced that it will restructure its network of outlets by closing up to 200 of its own post offices and by converting them into postal agencies based at retail outlets. Management highlights that the restructuring will not entail redundancies.

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UK Royal Mail Letters Managing Director appointed

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

Ian Griffiths, Group Managing Director of GKN Automotive, has been appointed Managing Director of Royal Mail Letters, it was announced today. Reporting to Adam Crozier, Royal Mail’s Group Chief Executive, Mr Griffiths will have day-to-day responsibility for the delivery of Royal Mail’s annual postbag of more than 20 billion letters. Mr Griffiths will be joining the board of Royal Mail Holdings plc, chaired by Allan Leighton, and he will also sit on the company’s Management Board, which is chaired by Mr Crozier. He is expected to take up the appointment early next year.

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UPS survey finds shipping critical to online buying experience

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

Internet shoppers say the successful delivery of goods purchased online is critical to their overall satisfaction and loyalty to online retailers, according to a new survey commissioned by UPS.
The survey, conducted for UPS by the national opinion research firm Synovate, found online consumers were overwhelming in their demand for high-quality delivery services. Among the findings:

Online consumers’ top three delivery priorities, in order, are reliability, convenience and speed of shipping.
80 percent of online shoppers said a positive delivery experience would cause them to likely purchase from that online retailer again.
69 percent of the respondents said they were more likely to patronize those online retailers that offered package tracking, rates and service selection online.

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Corporate Mailing Matters extends into secure transactional mail

Posted by | Nov 22, 2005 | |

Communications company Corporate Mailing Matters (CMM), has capitalised on its long experience in secure financial services mailings to extend the company’s activities into transactional mail (statements, statutory messages, notices, customer service correspondence). CMM has invested in GBP500,000 worth of additional equipment and facilities to underpin its transactional mail offering, and has already processed GBP750,000 of transactional business.

The company’s new transactional mail business is focusing on two clear clients areas – life and pensions administration, and fund management client service. These areas build organically on CMM’s original core business of financial reporting.

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Norway Post makes offer for OptiMail AB

Posted by | Nov 22, 2005 | |

The Norwegian postal services provider Posten Norge AS (Norway Post) announced on Tuesday (22 November) a public bid for all outstanding shares in the Swedish letter and logistics company OptiMail AB. The offer was made through Norway Post’s wholly-owned Swedish subsidiary CityMail Sweden AB. Norway Post currently controls 21.3% of the share capital of OptiMail AB. The offer amounts to SEK18.75 in cash per share, which represents a premium of 37% and values OptiMail at a total of SEK236m.

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ACCJ seeks equal competition conditions for Japan Post spin-offs

Posted by | Nov 22, 2005 | |

The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan urged the Japanese government Tuesday to ensure that equivalent conditions of competition with private-sector firms will be applied to postal entities, which will be spun off from Japan Post and fully privatized by 2017 under the newly enacted postal reform laws. The body representing more than 1,400 companies said that Japan should follow “global best practices” such as treating domestic and foreign service providers equally and securing transparency and fairness in implementing the privatization laws.
“The ACCJ believes that privatization consistent with the global best practices identified in our report is crucial to achieving favorable results,” said ACCJ Executive Director Donald Westmore in releasing the organization’s report at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo.

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