Post offices across Japan started delivering New Year’s greeting cards the morning of New Year’s Day on Tuesday for the first time since the privatization of the country’s postal system in October.
According to Japan Post Service Co., a total of 2,033 million cards nationwide are to be delivered on New Year’s Day. The figure is up 6.5 percent from a year earlier.
Read MoreWith the advent of wireless communications and internet, SingPost had to face expectations for faster and better service from its customers for express parcels.
Manual tracking of express parcels, with reduced accuracy and efficiency, more human resource involvement, and paper wastage, seemed so outdated.
SingPost which provides efficient and high quality domestic and international postal services in Singapore, recognized the problem. It became determined to meet and exceed the rising customer expectations. To do this, it had to do away with its existing system (in operation until 2004) whereby the old barcode readers were outmoded and the Internet service provider providing the public wireless network was decommissioned.
SingPost consulted with its information technology partner NCS Private Limited, over a period of six months, to define the project specifications and mapped out the entire process of the project.
Bring it up to the speed
After a series of stringent equipment definitions, preliminary research and testing, the task force identified that the Intermec 760 handheld mobiles were ideal for the barcode scanning function for its Speedpost operations, based on product reliability, customer service and technical support.
These devices were manufactured by Intermec, Inc., a firm which develops, manufactures and integrates technologies that identify, track and manage supply chain assets
The Intermec handheld mobiles were subjected to drop tests, splash tests, battery power consumption when using GPRS (general packet radio service) connections and field barcode scanning reliability.
Read MoreFedEx Corp. expressed great confidence in China’s time definite delivery (TDD) business in 2008.
The US-based company will meet new opportunities in expanding its businesses in China as its new Asia-Pacific transferring center at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is about to start operation in 2008 and the consuming market in the country is booming, said Eddy Chan, president of FedEx China.
The company has released its market promotion plan for 2008, with China as a focus. It purchased the stake of Tianjin Datian W. Group Co., Ltd. in their venture this March and Datian’s express assets in China, laying a good base for its plan in the country.
Besides, the US company started up its TDD services in China on June 28 this year, providing the services for customers in 19 cities of the country. It is providing overnight delivery service for over 30 main Chinese cities and next-day delivery service for over 200 cities in the country.
Read MoreThe Viet Nam Posts and Telecommunication Group (VNPT) has been split into posts and telecommunication divisions.
The long-prepared divide was formally approved on Wednesday and the Viet Nam Postal Corporation will be launched next Tuesday, January 1, 2008.
It will retain all of its fixed assets and manage State post offices throughout Vietnam.
The corporation will provide public welfare services to remote Vietnam and manage the national postal network, including domestic and international postal services, and press publications.
The VNPT will manage the national communications network as well as information and communication services.
The split is intended to enable a better management of postal and telecommunications services and help both to develop.
Viet Nam Postal Corporation general director Do Ngoc Binh said the corporation would try to expand its business and balance revenue and expenditure by 2010, and then gradually turn a profit.
Vietnam’s prime-minister-approved five-year Postal Development Master Plan provides for an increase of postal-service sites to 13,500 by the end of 2010.
The plan requires the Postal Corporate to ensure that all communes, including remote and highland, have daily newspaper deliveries.
But it will get State help for its public-welfare work.
Postal services provided VNPT with only 5 pct of its to total revenue.
The new corporation intends to expand providing pension payments, insurance services and the collection of electricity, telephone and water fees.
The Government is seeking both domestic and international investment for the development of its transmitting services.
Read MoreThe government has decided to raise postal charges from January 1.
The decision was made at a meeting of the council of advisers chaired by the chief adviser, Fakhruddin Ahmed, at his office on Wednesday.
From January 1, Bangladesh Postal Department will sell a post card at Tk 1.50 instead of Tk 1 and envelop at Tk 3 instead of Tk 2.
Besides, an additional 20 per cent service charge will be added to the actual cost of all foreign mails. The meeting approved a proposal for the signing of an additional protocol between Bangladesh and Qatar to facilitate more manpower export to Qatar. One of the key objectives of signing the protocol is to upgrade a treaty to this effect signed in January 1988 between the two countries.
The additional protocol will be signed in Dhaka in the first week of next month during the visit of a high-level delegation led by the labour and social affairs minister of Qatar.
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