EMS Operational Guide – Japan
EMS Operational Guide – Japan
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Taiwan Post Will Corporatize by June 2002
Taiwan plans to corporatize its Directorate General of Posts that is currently governed by the transport ministry, by June next year, an official at the ministry said Friday. The official, who declined to be named, said the ministry is also considering a Ministry of Finance suggestion to turn the posts unit into a financial holding company, as its businesses encompass postal services, accepting deposits and insurance and funds transfers.
Read MoreTNT's bio-logistics department growing fast
According to TNT Express Worldwide (Singapore), bio-logistics, which involves the distribution, storage and packing of biomedical products, is one of its fastest-growing departments. The department is expanding even faster than its electronics and telecommunications departments. TNT, which transports human blood and tissue samples in the Asia-Pacific region, says its makes at least 20,000 biomedical-product shipments in a year and charges between S$ 40 and S$ 250 per shipment. About five companies currently provide bio-logistics services to support Singapore’s growing life-science industry. Besides TNT, the others include FedEx Express and World Courier Singapore.
Read MoreChina Post Marches to Logistic Industry
CHINA, Sep 26, 2001 (AsiaPort via COMTEX) — The State Postal Bureau (China Post) needs to restructure management systems and business operations in order to become a modern logistics provider, industry experts say.
Read MorePostal Efficiency
Inefficiency of the postal department is one of the chronic and
apparently incurable problems of the administration. The question
is whether all of it is plain inefficiency. Perhaps it is not only
due to incompetence that books and magazines mailed to addresses
almost never reach their destinations. The more high-priced and
marketable a journal is, the less is its chance of being received
by the addressee. These are chronic irritants which were never
seriously dealt with. What is even more disgraceful is that stamps
valued at no more than a few taka are removed from letters, which
forces people to take their letters to the post office for getting
the stamps cancelled in their presence instead of dropping the
letters in the nearest post box.
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