Tag: Australasia

Singapore hosts 15th ASEAN postal business meeting

Posted by | Oct 23, 2008 | |

Singapore’s Minister for Information, Communications & the Arts, Dr Lee Boon Yang, opened the 15th ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Postal Business Meeting (APBM), hosted by Singapore Post (SingPost).

About 50 delegates from the 10 ASEAN countries namely Brunei Darussalam,
Cambodia, Republic of Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Union
of Myanmar, Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and the Socialist Republic
of Viet Nam, as well as ASEAN countries ie People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong,
Japan, India and the Republic of Korea, are attending the meeting in Singapore.
Meetings

The Singapore Meeting will begin with the election of the new Vice-Chairperson and the
adoption of the business timetable. Malaysia holds the chairmanship of the ASEAN
Postal Business Meeting.

During the two-day Meeting, senior postal officials from the 10 ASEAN countries will
receive updates from the 24th Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress and its impact on
ASEAN, and will discuss the leveraging on Singapore and Indonesia, both of which were
recently re-elected into the Postal Operations Council (POC), as the conduit for
UPU/POC information between the ASEAN members and the UPU/POC, as well as
establishing funding projects that can reinforce ASEAN’s collective competitiveness as a
region, so as to realise equitable and sustainable growth. The meeting will also provide
updates from the previous meeting held in Philippines on 4-5 September 2007.

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Australia Post delivers record results

Posted by | Oct 15, 2008 | |

Australia Post delivered strong community service performance and record financial results in 2007/08, according to the corporation’s Annual Report.
The government-owned postal corporation earned a record pre-tax profit of AUD 592.2 million (up 5.4 percent on the previous year).
Revenue growth in each of the three core business areas – letters, parcels and retail – boosted overall revenue by 5.3 percent to AUD 4.96 billion.
Australia Post also met or exceeded all of its community service obligations, including delivering 95.9 percent of domestic letters on time or early (well above its 94 per cent target).
The Annual Report indicates that letters continue to be a vital form of communication in Australia, with the volume of domestic letters increasing by 2.0 percent. This was the strongest growth in letter volumes since 1999/2000.Australia Post’s Chairman David Mortimer said these results underline the continuing strength of the postal corporation as it prepares to celebrate its bicentenary in 2009. 1 USD = 1.45183 AUD

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DHL boosts South Asia trade with enhanced express services

Posted by | Oct 9, 2008 | |

DHL has enhanced its services within the South Asia/SAARC region with new air and ground express products designed to support trade between the neighbouring countries.

The new products are the expansion of the Blue Dart ‘Road Express’ service to Bangladesh and the introduction of the premium guaranteed money-back service ‘Express 10:30’ in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) covers India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives.

During the last few years, DHL Express has made substantial investments of over USD 300 million towards the development and upgrading of its network infrastructure in India, including five gateways in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata and over 150 retail outlets. In addition, a state-of-the-art Quality Control Centre and large shipment-processing areas aim at providing seamless express and logistics service solutions to Indian exporters.

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GP signs landmark deal with postal department (Bangladesh)

Posted by | Sep 26, 2008 | |

Grameenphone (GP), the country’s largest mobile phone company, entered into a deal with the postal department to market its products and services through more than 8,000 rural post offices.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Grameenphone Anders Jensen and director general of Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) Mobasher ur Rahman signed the agreement at a city hotel.

Under the deal, the GP will supply over 24,000 special SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) cards to the BPO postmen working in over 8,200 post offices across the country.

The cards blend mobile recharging tool FlexiLoad with GP’s voice and data products and services. The GP’s health prescription service, HealthLine, and utility payment services will also be incorporated in the offer. A postman will rent the service to rural people at the existing GP tariffs and will get commission based on the amount of phone use.

Speaking on the occasion, Brigadier Gen. M.A. Malek (Rtd.) termed the deal a “landmark event” for the country’s perennially losing postal department, saying it would benefit tens of thousands of poorly paid postmen.

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