I haven’t sent a letter through the post in years. My preferred choice of communication is the phone and SMS.
But I receive a lot of “snail mail” — bills, magazines, circulars and other such like. Conclusion: Business mail is good business for Pos Malaysia & Services Holdings Bhd.
Analysts have come to the same conclusion.
China’s postal trade chalked up 24.7 billion yuan (US$3 billion) in business income in the first six months of 2002, 8.5 per cent more than the same period last year, said the State Bureau of Postal Service.
The figure accounts for 48.5 per cent of the annual income target set by the Bureau earlier this year.
The postal trade raked in 630 million yuan by providing logistics service, with a 21 per cent monthly growth in Jan-June; and 520 million yuan by providing telecom service.
As a part of the postal services extension scheme, post offices in the suburbs of Kolkata are being brought under the jurisdiction of the General Post Office (GPO) service. In the first phase, a number of post offices in North and South 24-Parganas have been allotted Kolkata pin codes.
According to sources in GPO, there were 99 post office areas in the city served by the head post office. Under the new plan, southern suburbs like Narendrapur (Kolkata-103) and Joka (Kolkata-104) have started receiving the service of Town Delivery .
The postal department is hopeful that the new move will inject a fresh lease of life to the most defunct postal services. In the new plan, the services to the added areas will be faster and hassle-free.
Deutsche Post AG, parent of express courier firm DHL International Ltd., said Monday the overseas mail services operated by DHL in Japan will carry the Deutsche Post brand from this autumn.
In Japan, DHL has operated large-volume overseas mail services for corporate customers, handling such items as direct mail and catalogs, since early 2001, on top of overseas package services.
Deutsche Post, which raised its stake in DHL to over 75 pct in July, has decided to integrate DHL’s overseas mail services in Japan to its Deutsche Post Global Mail Service, a spokesman said.
The overseas package services in Japan will continue under the DHL brand, the spokesman said.
Deutsche Post AG, Europe’s largest postal/transport services company, plans to begin an international mail service in Japan this autumn, sources close to the matter said, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun Sunday edition reported. The German company will use the parcel-collection network that affiliate DHL International Ltd. operates in Japan to send overseas large quantities of direct mail of Japanese companies at cut-rate prices. The planned move is designed to pre-empt the Japanese government plan to expand the scope of overseas mail services when Postal Public Corp. is established next year. The new public corporation is expected to face immediate competition from private companies in the international business. Deutsche Post is entering the Japanese market as part of efforts to expand its Global Mail Service worldwide. Most of the work will be outsourced to affiliate DHL Japan Inc., but the service will be offered under the Deutsche Post brand.
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