Tag: Asia

Delhi Post targets corporate houses

Posted by | Aug 30, 2007 | |

Matching steps with the growing competition from private courier firms, the Delhi Post is targeting corporate houses to generate more revenues by flaunting a well-established network across the country.

India Post’s Delhi Circle, responsible for postal services in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, has launched a special service, Mail Business Centers (MBC), for private companies, through which postal staff will not only collect the companies’ bulk mail, but will also place them in envelopes and label them with the recipients’ address.

This service was launched exclusively for business houses early this year at three centers in the national capital and now the postal department has major clients like Indiabulls, GE Capital, Thompson and all leading nationalized banks in its kitty.

Explaining the function of the three centers, Lal said they broadly function in ensuring quality and providing customized solutions and marketing impetus to mail business.

Apart from MBCs, the postal department has also launched e-Payment service, an innovative bill collection service, where people can pay their telephone and water bills from any part of the country.

Speaking on the Right to Information (RTI) Act, Lal said the post offices in Delhi are already accepting and dispatching the RTI applications pertaining to any department after charging a nominal fee.

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Business & Investment: DHL launches Import Express website

Posted by | Aug 29, 2007 | |

DHL has recently launched Import Express On-line, a website that automates and supports the importation of products, a company source said on August 15

The web-based service is part of DHL Express’s continuing efforts to enhance the features of Import Express, one of its fastest-growing productions in Vietnam

Product users will have the simplicity and control of one point of contact, one fixed price, and one invoice in local currency for all their door-to-door import requirements, originating from over 210 countries

With annual revenues of nearly EUR 24.5 billion in 2004, DHL, 100 pct owned by Deutsche Post World Net, offers innovative and customized solutions from a single source

DHL’s international network links more than 220 countries and territories worldwide thanks to its customer network of 4.2 million. Over 170,000 employees are dedicated to providing fast and reliable services that exceed customers’ expectations in 120,000 destinations in all continents.

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Corrective measures to rectify postal service shortcomings

Posted by | Aug 24, 2007 | |

Shortcomings at the top management level in the postal service has led to several irregularities. Corrective measures will be taken immediately after submission of the Committee Report, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Rauff Hakeem said yesterday.

Hakeem revealed this to representatives of trade unions attached to the Postal Department during discussions to enlighten them on matters of the interim committee report which probed into the alleged corruption and irregularities at the Postal Department.

The committee which probed into the allegations repeatedly put forward by the trade unions carried out its investigations based on 22 counts and submitted its findings on 10 special matters of grave nature.

Hakeem said both short term and long term steps were needed to be taken to rectify these shortcomings. He instructed the Ministry secretary to attend to these matters.

The Minister also dealt with matters on business posts and said a long term plan was needed to be introduced into this field and said it required Treasury approval. He said he would contemplate on introducing modern technology to make this service efficient with Treasury provisions. Ministry Secretary W.M. Piyasena, Ministry officials and trade union representatives were associated with the Minister at this meeting.

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DHL to seal ties with India Post

Posted by | Aug 24, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post is looking at developing a strategic partnership with the Indian postal system.

Through this venture, both postal authorities are aiming at strengthening their global business operations. The entities are in early stages of discussions to ascertain specific segments, like last mile delivery, sharing infrastructural facility & technological innovations in which they could strike a partnership and initiate operations.

According to sources close to the development, with this strategic partnership, DHL will leverage India Post’s vast infrastructural facility, almost 150,00 post offices spread all over India, for their last mile delivery operations and increasing its market penetration. India Post, on the other hand, will be looking at benefiting from the superior technical expertise of DHL in handling logistics operations. The final structure of the relationship, though, is yet to be finalized.

DHL, along with its 81 pct stake in the Indian air express company Blue Dart, already has a huge footprint in India in the express logistics and freight forwarding segment, though, limited to semi-urban and urban areas.

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Japan Post to shut down ATMs on Sept. 30 ahead of privatization

Posted by | Aug 24, 2007 | |

Japan Post said Friday all of some 26,000 automated teller machines for postal savings will be taken out of service on Sept. 30 to prepare for the privatization of postal services due to start the following day.

All postal ATMs installed at post offices and other locations across Japan need to be suspended so as to confirm the amount of cash Japan Post holds on the last day as a public corporation, it said.

ATMs operated by financial institutions and convenience stores tied up with Japan Post will not be affected.

In addition, electronic remittances via the Internet and the use of debit cards will be possible as usual, Japan Post said.

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