Year: 2005

Koizumi suggests lower hurdle for companies to start postal business

Posted by | Oct 4, 2005 | |

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi expressed his intention Tuesday to loosen conditions for companies to launch postal services by allowing them to operate fewer postboxes than stipulated by law. Japan’s postal services are under the control of a state-backed entity, Japan Post. The mail delivery law, enacted in 2003 to set rules for entry into the business by private firms, requires new entrants to provide at least 100,000 postboxes nationwide. The government “will create an environment to start the business as easily as possible,” Koizumi told the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors. “There is no need to fix the number at 100,000.”

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Australia Post gets green light for more secure online bill-paying

Posted by | Oct 4, 2005 | |

Australia Post will launch an online authentication option for its bill payment service using two-factor devices during the first half of 2006. The organisation has already held discussions with a number of key providers of e-services, including financial institutions and government agencies. An Australian Post spokesman said the level of interest has been “so encouraging” that although final approval of the service was still pending, management had approved the next stage of the project. “If all goes to plan, Post will have the service operating in the first half of 2006,” the spokesman said. According to Australia Post’s 2003-04 annual report, it processed 170 million Postbillpay transactions.

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DHL plans USD100M Hong Kong expansion

Posted by | Oct 4, 2005 | |

DHL International plans to double its express cargo terminal capacity at Chek Lap Kok with a new USD100 million (HKD780 million) building to deal with the relentless stream of high-value manufactured goods from factories in Guangdong. DHL, owned by Deutsche Post World Net, plans to build another terminal close to its existing express cargo terminal which was awarded by Airport Authority’s franchise in 2002. The original plan was to expand to three terminals over an 11- or 12-year period. “We’re full,” said Kelvin Leung, DHL’s regional vice president. “We had envisioned a three-phase expansion of the hub, but the second two phases will be rolled into one now. ” The existing terminal’s peak handling capacity is about 20,000 shipments per hour, with plans to raise that to 45,000 by 2018 once all three phases are completed. The existing terminal handled about 440 tonnes per day in 2004, with an ultimate capacity of 900 tonnes per day expected by 2014. The new terminal will be of similar size to the existing 18,200-square-meter terminal, with building costs not expected to exceed USD100 million investment, Leung said.

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Italy Poste Italiane revenue up 6.5 pct Y/Y H1 2005

Posted by | Oct 4, 2005 | |

Italy’s state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane ended the first half of 2005 with a consolidated revenue of 4.8 bln euro (USD5.737 bln), up 6.5 pct year-on-year, the company said on October 3, 2005. Consolidated operating profit stood at 412 mln euro (USD492.5 mln) and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) increased 18.3 pct. The company’s investments amounted to over 200 mln euro (USD239.1 mln). Poste Italiane expects to post a turnover of 9.0 bln euro (USD10.758 bln) for 2005.

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Claude Béglé to join DHL Express

Posted by | Oct 4, 2005 | |

Claude Béglé will be joining DHL, the global market leader in express and logistics, after having spent several years successfully building an international network and managing the Geopost International Division. He has been a Board Member of the Geopost group since 1999 and the Chairman of the European DPD organisation. Both Geopost and DPD are subsidiaries of the French La Poste. Béglé, 56, will assume the role of Chief Operating Officer for DHL Express Germany and will also be Managing Director DHL Express Central Europe, responsible for Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia. In his new position, Claude Béglé will report to Peter E. Kruse, Management Board member of Deutsche Post World Net and CEO of DHL Express Europe.

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Neopost H1 profits surge, raises operating margin target

Posted by | Oct 4, 2005 | |

Europe’s largest mailroom equipment firm Neopost on Tuesday raised its operating margin forecast for the third time this year as robust sales helped to lift its interim operating profit by a larger-than-expected 20 percent.
Neopost, which last month reported a 9-percent surge in first-half sales, said it now expected its operating profit margin to be above 24 percent for the current fiscal year ending January 31, 2006. The company, which shares 80 percent of the world market for postal equipment with its larger US rival Pitney Bowes had previously said it was confident it could achieve a margin of 24 percent. “2005 will be another great year for Neopost,” Chief Executive Jean-Paul Villot said in a statement.

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Service perceptions key to future of UK postal market

Posted by | Oct 3, 2005 | |

Three quarters of Royal Mail business customers say they would move some or all of their business if a competitor offered equivalent service quality at a 5% discount, but 82% believe that Royal Mail’s service is better. The findings reveal that although caution is prevalent in the business mail market, volume might quickly find its way to alternative suppliers if the general perception of the services levels offered by the private sector improves. In addition, Postcomm’s 2005 Business Customer Survey revealed that only half of Royal Mail users are happy with the state-owned company and 20% expected its introduction of size-based pricing to increase their use of alternative operators. Postcomm highlighted its unhappiness with the level of customers’ awareness of the competition timetable and of alternative suppliers.

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Royal Mail offers discount on customer magazine mailings

Posted by | Oct 3, 2005 | |

Royal Mail is launching a new promotion in support of the customer publishing industry by offering a 15% discount on customer magazine mailing costs. The initiative is designed to encourage clients with a prospective customer title to consider using mail as a distribution method. New clients are being encouraged to test mailed-out customer magazines as a marketing tool, supported by reports that almost two-thirds of all customer magazines are currently posted to recipients.

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