Year: 2006

Post Danmark eyes 20,000 subscribers for new mail service in 2006

Posted by | Jan 3, 2006 | |

National postal service Post Danmark A/S expects to register some 20,000 subscribers for its new pay-for service for mail delivery before 1000 local time, deputy director Soeren Ravn said on January 3, 2006. The new service will be launched on February 6, 2006 and will cost 2,250 Danish crowns (USD358/301.5 euro) a year. The move is oriented mainly towards corporate customers, but with 1,000 subscribers registered by the beginning of January 2006 it has not met the expectations.

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Ceska posta to cut nearly 900 jobs this year

Posted by | Jan 3, 2006 | |

State-run postal services operator Ceska posta will reduce its workforce by 860 to 37,450 staff this year following the windup of its technical support unit in October 2005, spokesman Ladislav Vancura has told CTK. Last year, Ceska posta dismissed around 600 staff. Wages at Ceska posta should grow by 5.3 percent in 2006, Vancura said, adding that an agreement with the unions is to be signed next week.

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An Post may face new competitor in door-to-door mail

Posted by | Jan 3, 2006 | |

Business mail delivery group DX Ireland is considering entering the door-to-door postal market following the implementation of further liberalisation in the postal market. Managing director Kevin Galligan said the business document exchange firm was conducting a feasibility study with a view to entering the door-to-door delivery market before full deregulation comes into effect. As of January 1st this year, independent operators are permitted to collect and deliver postal items weighing in excess of 50g, down from the previous threshold of 100g, which was introduced in 2003. Any independent operator who wishes to deliver items weighing less than 50g door-to-door must charge 2.5 times the An Post tariff of 48c per item, or at least EUR1.20. Complete liberalisation in the market is due by January 2009 in line with an EU postal directive.

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TNT expands European innight network

Posted by | Jan 3, 2006 | |

TNT today announced it has acquired ISH Nocní Expres, the leading innight distribution services provider in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The acquisition will further strengthen TNT’s European innight network and its Eastern European business which has been identified as a growth area for TNT. Furthermore, this acquisition is in line with TNT’s refined strategy focusing on network distribution, including innight distribution services (delivering consignments during the night before 08.00 AM).

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Rivals gear up to take small firms' business off UK Royal Mail

Posted by | Jan 2, 2006 | |

Companies posting as little as 100 letters at a time could help to lead an exodus of trade from Royal Mail, after full competition opens up from today.
Postwatch, the consumer group, predicted that rivals to Royal Mail will begin targeting small businesses after the initial push for big customers such as banks, utilities and government departments recedes. A spokesman for Postwatch said: “Already UK Mail offers a service for people posting 250 items in one go. We think that will fall to around 100 by the end of the year. We are encouraging small firms to go on to the website of the regulator Postcomm, check who the rival operators are and contact them.” From today Royal Mail’s rivals will be able to offer small businesses and domestic customers a service alongside the larger business market in which they already compete. A large segment of the business postal market has been open to competition for nearly two years and Royal Mail has lost only 3 per cent of its revenue.

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TNT sells Logistiques Ladoux; 90 pct of TNT Logistics France now sold

Posted by | Jan 2, 2006 | |

TNT NV said it has agreed to sell its Logistiques Ladoux business to French cargo transport operator Malherbe for an undisclosed amount. The disposal, together with the sale last month of TNT’s contract logistics activities and part of the transportation activities of its French subsidiary TNT Logistics Holdings to Norbert Dentressangle, represents about 90 pct of the TNT Logistics France unit. As previously announced, the expected negative financial impact relating to the sale and the refocus of the French logistics business will be up to 140 mln eur before tax, to be booked largely in 2005.

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