Belgian postal service company De Post/La Poste will increase the number of its PostPunten sales counters to some 130 in 2006, the De Staandard daily said on December 15, 2005. De Post/La Poste plans to install the sales counters in supermarkets, newspaper retail stores, banks and train stations. The company installed the first string of 14 PostPunten in November 2004. The number was later raised to 46.
Read MorePrinter RR Donnelley & Sons Company acquired print-and-mail services company Critical Mail Continuity Services Ltd. CMCS, based in Britain, serves financial services, telecommunications, utility, government and other large organizations with disaster recovery, business continuity, digital print and print-and-mail services. Clients use it to ensure that vital communications are not interrupted by catastrophic damage to in-house processing centers and to handle peak-period volumes.
Read MoreThe Transport & Logistics Association (VSL) of Baden-Wuerttemberg has awarded its Logistics Award for 2005 to a thesis by Ralf Messing, an apprentice at trans-o-flex. The award, which carries prize money of €600, was given for his essay “Possible uses of RFID at trans-o-flex.” Mr. Messing has graduated with a Forwarding, Transport & Traffic major from the Vocational University in Mannheim. In their text accompanying the award to the “far above-average thesis” the jury emphasized that Mr. Messing’s examination of alternative identification and information systems (barcode vs. RFID) was based on very comprehensive and up-to-date source material and was well structured and presented in an easily comprehensible way. “This work is convincing in its careful representation of advantages and disadvantages, taking account of cost-performance models and scenarios in the organizational and operational parts of the company. The conclusions and prognoses are of great practical relevance for the logistics industry.”
In addition to Ralf Messing, two other trans-o-flex apprentices have completed their courses at the Vocational University in Mannheim with above-average success. Helen Ehrbar received a grade 2.2 for her degree in Business IT and Michael Grosshans received a 2.1 in Forwarding, Transport & Logistics. Courses at the Vocational University are part of the Dual Apprenticeship System which is a focus at trans-o-flex. It involves a three-month practical phase in the company followed by three months of academic study at the VU, the course running over a three-year period. At the same time as making the Apprenticeship Agreement, trans-o-flex reserves a place at the VU. At present, 15 young people are undergoing this type of apprenticeship. A further 24 apprentices are on the traditional commercial training path.
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Read MoreMagazine industry chiefs have claimed a partial victory in their fight to prevent Royal Mail being allowed to make hefty price increases on its distribution products. The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) has persuaded regulator Postcomm to recommend continued price-capping of Royal Mail’s Presstream 1 product. It feared extra distribution costs would be passed on to consumers via cover price rises. The “next- day” service is used by about a quarter of publishers to distribute trade press across the UK. But the PPA remains concerned that Postcomm will allow the removal of price controls on three-day service Presstream 2, which is used by the remaining publishers.
Read MoreWhy anyone would abandon the comfort zone of life at the top in corporate Britain to work for the government is an utter mystery. It is even more so when the new job is running the Postal Commission, or Postcom. Why anyone would abandon the comfort zone of life at the top in corporate Britain to work for the government is an utter mystery. It is the body charged with making sure the notoriously inefficient Royal Mail is doing a good job and that the postal worker feels the hot breath of competition on the collar. The avuncular Nigel Stapleton, Postcom chairman, believes his background in industry was just the kind of training he needed to make sure that the Royal Mail does better and actually manages to deliver the Christmas post on time.
Read MoreTNT NV said Karstadt Quelle AG has renewed and expanded a five-year contract worth over 100 mln eur with a unit of TNT’s Mail division, for the distribution of a variety of parcel consignments. From 2006 onwards, it will deliver several million parcels each year for various KarstadtQuelle units in the Netherlands, including Quelle Nederland, Neckermann Nederland and Bonaparte.
Read MoreGermany’s postal regulator supports ending Deutsche Post’s monopoly for delivering standard letters by the end of 2007, it said on Thursday. Deutsche Post had shown that it can hold its own “despite steps in the past toward liberalisation of the letter market,” said Matthias Kruth, the head of the regulator that oversees postal, gas, electricity and telecoms operations in Germany. The regulator therefore saw “no reason not to let (Deutsche Posts’s) exclusive licence run out on Dec. 31, 2007,” he added. The German postal market is worth 23 billion euros (USD27.7 billion) a year in sales at present, Kurth said, adding that Deutsche Post accounts for about two-thirds of that.
Read MorePalletways has appointed its first member in Denmark as part of the expansion program for its Central European network, which also covers the Benelux countries, Northern France and Germany. Esbjerg-based IAT will provide overnight deliveries domestically and a 48-hour distribution service to and from the rest of the region covered by the Central European network. The company will distribute quarter, half and full pallets on behalf of Palletways.
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