An application by the Royal Mail to deregulate a number of business packet products and introduce a new pricing structure outside Condition 21 of its license has been rejected by postal regulator Postcomm.
Read MoreA union has claimed that injured Australia Post employees are allegedly being forced back to work early, and that savings in compensation payments are being used to fund bonuses for senior executives.
Read MoreDeutsche Post has sold four of its 11 data centres to T-Systems including 250 employees as part of its restructuring of the IT division, according to German magazine Manager-magazin.
Read MoreOnline sales in France rose nearly 30 per cent in 2008, reaching €20.1 billion (£18.5bn; $26 billion), the Fédération du E-commerce et de la Vente à Distance (FEVAD) reports.
Read MoreThere were fewer marketing messages from financial services firms dropping onto American doormats last year, reports business intelligence provider Mintel Comperemedia. The number of mailed offers aiming to acquire new customers fell by more than a quarter.
Read MoreHome Delivery Network (HDNL) plans to save £500,000 a year and reduce its van fleet on the back of a £1.2m IT investment that includes a text message delivery service.
Read MoreDHL Express France has been successfully operating its return service DHL Réciproc’ with over 64,000 returned parcels handled in 2008.
Read MoreDHL – which has been trying since last year to hire rival United Parcel Service to sort and fly DHL packages in the United States – says it is talking again with its current cargo-flying partners, ABX Air and ASTAR Air Cargo.
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