Year: 2005

Court decides against Deutsche Post in name dispute

Posted by | Sep 16, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post, the German national postal services provider, has suffered another legal defeat in its dispute over the use of the word ‘Post’ by rivals, such as Regiopost. The former monopolist said that the vast majority of people in Germany associated the term ‘Post’ with Deutsche Post and that other companies’ use of this term could lead to confusion. The regional court in Frankenthal yesterday rejected Deutsche Telekom’s complaint against Regiopost.

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SDC closes case on Spanish Correos

Posted by | Sep 16, 2005 | |

In Spain, the Spanish competition authority, the SDC, has closed the case on postal services provider Correos for abusing its market power, following Correos’ commitment to refrain from manipulating the market by charging below-cost prices to major clients. The original proceedings against Correos were opened in 2002, when the Spanish postal employers’ association, Asempre, accused Correos of entering into contracts with major clients, such as Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), Spain’s second-largest bank, and Catalan savings bank La Caixa, containing heavy discounts resulting from cross-subsidisation.

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TNT eyes new mail, express partnerships with China

Posted by | Sep 15, 2005 | |

TNT NV said it hopes to expand its express parcel services with China Post and develop a new partnership in its mail division to service a planned national direct marketing operation. TNT chief executive officer Peter Bakker told XFN-Asia that he believes that express or parcel freight operations have the greatest growth potential in China for the Dutch company, which provides logistics, express and mail services. ‘The biggest opportunity will be in express operations, the parcel freight operations,’ he said in an interview, predicting it will eventually overtake the firm’s current business leader — logistics – in importance. TNT’s express service in China was a stand-out performer in the group’s interim results for the second quarter 2005, growing at over 27 pct compared to 12.8 pct recorded for express services across the rest of the world excluding Europe. Bakker said that until now the company has not had its own international parcel service for China.

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Czech parcel traffic grows by 14 pct yearly

Posted by | Sep 14, 2005 | |

Parcel traffic in the Czech Republic grows by some 14 percent a year as companies delivering parcels handle about 150,000 units a day, CTK learnt in a poll of the companies today. Annual sales from this activity reach an estimated Kc4-5 billion a year. DPD chief executive Daniel Mares said parcel traffic among companies prevailed as some 60 percent of Czech companies have parcels delivered. Abroad, the rate is about 90 percent.

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Royal Mail has nothing to fear from competition, says Postcomm

Posted by | Sep 14, 2005 | |

Royal Mail will be able to withstand any loss of the delivery market it faces when competition is opened up, a senior member of the postal watchdog claimed yesterday. The UK’s biggest mail company has voiced fears that it could be hit hard by proposals by the industry regulator, Postcomm, for a cap on stamp charge rises. Postcomm’s chief executive, Sarah Chambers, said she was convinced the universal service obligation to deliver to all addresses for the same stamp price meant that rural deliveries would not suffer from the effects of competition. But Royal Mail said Postcomm should not forget the extent to which remote and rural communities in Scotland depended on the company. Ms Chambers was speaking exclusively to the Press and Journal before she held meetings with business groups, Enterprise Minister Nicol Stephen and a group of MSPs.

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Swiss letter delivery monopoly to be lifted

Posted by | Sep 14, 2005 | |

The Swiss cabinet has decided to partially liberalise the country’s letter delivery service from April 2006. It is the latest step towards privatising the state–owned company and opening the postal market to other licensed competitors. Swiss Post, which currently holds a monopoly on all letters delivered in the country, will face competition for the delivery of letters over 100 grams from April next year. Companies wishing to offer a delivery service need a licence from the authorities. The communications ministry said the government’s decision was based on a report by consultants. In their report, published last month, experts said a partial liberalisation of letter delivery services would not threaten the country’s mail service.

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First orange mailbox in Netherlands in January

Posted by | Sep 14, 2005 | |

As of 1 January 2006 TPG Post will begin converting its red icons in the Netherlands like mailboxes, staffwear, vehicles and buildings to the orange of the new TNT Post corporate identity on 1 January 2006. Royal TPG Post officially changes its name to Royal TNT Post on 15 May 2006. The corporate identity operation is a logical effect of the name change from TPG to TNT. The company will take advantage of natural replacements to make the changeover. This will allow completion of the corporate identity operation within a three-year period with a limited investment. Most corporate identity changes will be in place in January 2009. The gradual change will limit costs.

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UPS parcel carried faces pilots’ strike

Posted by | Sep 14, 2005 | |

After an almost three-year dispute with the world’s largest package delivery company, United Parcel Service, its pilots have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. UPS has 2,459 pilots, of whom almost 97 percent are eligible to vote and agreed to authorize the Independent Pilots Association to call a strike. Despite the vote, the pilots are prohibited from striking unless the union is released from US federally supervised mediation. The president of the pilots’ union, Tom Nicholson, said he would delay in requesting a release from mediation because of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the role UPS pilots may could be called on to play in relief efforts. Nicholson said in an interview. “Will we ask for release? Without a contract, yes. When will that happen? I don’t know.” UPS last week said it had anticipated the vote, but that the threatened strike would have no impact on its business. UPS says its pilots are among the best paid in the industry, and it called for mediation to continue.

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