Tag: Domestic

Technology developed by Mysore PTC to be launched on January 1, 2008

Posted by | Dec 12, 2007 | |

Mysore is likely to emerge as a “technology hub” for postal services in South Asia. With the Postal Training Centre (PTC) here already in the forefront of developing innovative technologies for the improvement of postal administration in 22 postal circles across the country, India Post is strongly vying for bringing the proposed South Asian Postal Technology Centre to Mysore.

India Post has sent a formal request to the Bern-based Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the Asia Pacific Postal Centre in Bangkok for considering Mysore as the venue for establishing the premier centre to train officers from South Asian countries in developing state-of-the-art technology in postal matters.

As a first step, India Post, which functions under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, is establishing the National Postal Technology Centre on the premises of PTC in Mysore. The centre, which will be one of its kind, will be developed as a “centre of excellence” to impart specialised training to the personnel of postal circles in developing technologies such as developing software and custom-made computers to suit postal services.

The Mysore PTC has been training postal employees from several African countries and Thailand. Significantly, the postal departments in countries such as Nepal, the Maldives and Bhutan are using the software developed by the PTC to improve their postal administration.

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Germany plans to limit D.Post tax privileges-paper

Posted by | Dec 11, 2007 | |

Germany’s Economy Ministry plans to curtail the tax privileges of Deutsche Post DPWGn.DE so that only postage stamps will be exempt from value added tax (VAT), a German newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Competitors of Germany’s biggest mail delivery company have complained that Deutsche Post has an unfair advantage over them because it is the only firm which has enjoyed sweeping VAT exemption privileges.

According to internal Economy Ministry documents obtained by Financial Times Deutschland newspaper, the ministry plans to help level the playing field by limiting Deutsche Post’s VAT exemption to postage stamps.

This means that mass mailings without postage stamps and other postal services will no longer be exempt from VAT.

Deutsche Post loses its domestic mail monopoly next year.

However, German government plans for a minimum wage in the postal sector have made rivals rethink their challenges to Deutsche Post when its monopoly ends.

One of Deutsche Post’s main rivals, mail delivery company PIN Group, said last week it will have to cut more than 1,000 of its 9,000 jobs in Germany due to Berlin’s plans to put a floor under wages in the sector.

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Dutch MPs positive on partial post liberalization

Posted by | Dec 11, 2007 | |

A majority of MPs are positive about a proposal by postal firm Sandd to allow a limited liberalisation of the postal market, reports Tuesday’s Financieele Dagblad.

Sandd’s proposal is intended as a temporary arrangement following last week’s announcement that a fully open market has been indefinitely postponed.

The plan would allow newcomers on the market, such as Sandd itself, to deliver a certain volume of the post that is currently under the monopoly of TNT (letters weighing under 50 grams).

The coalition Christian Democrat and Labour partners and the opposition liberal VVD party say the request by Sandd is reasonable, reports the Financieele Dagblad.

All three parties have called on junior economic affairs minister Frank Heemskerk to give a new date for the full liberalisation of the postal market as soon as possible.

The association which represents commercial post users (VGP) says the postponement of liberalisation will cost Dutch companies EUR 200m a year. They have written to prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende to urge a fast solution, reports the Financieele Dagblad.

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TNT to look at all options 'very thoroughly' if minimum wage adopted in Germany

Posted by | Dec 10, 2007 | |

TNT NV will look ‘very thoroughly’ at all options, should the German government approve the postal minimum wage that is reportedly pushing Axel Springer AG to consider winding up its mail services unit PIN Group by Christmas.

The upper house of the German parliament, in which German states are represented, is likely to decide on the minimum wage at its meeting scheduled for December 20.

‘If the minimum wage is adopted in Germany then we will look at our options very thoroughly, everything is open. And we will include the winding up of PIN in our option finding or scenario thinking, once the fact is confirmed,’ TNT spokesman Pieter Schaffels said.

This morning, the Financial Times Deutschland reported that majority shareholder Axel Springer plans to wind up its mail services unit PIN by Christmas and write-down 600 mln eur due to the bankruptcy.

The German government recently decided to expand minimum wages to 8-9.80 eur per hour agreed by services union ver.di and an employer’s association dominated by incumbent Deutsche Post World Net AG to the whole industry, challenging margins of Deutsche Post’s competitors.

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USPS signs 42 year lease at new commerce centre

Posted by | Dec 10, 2007 | |

The United States Postal Service has signed a 500,000-sf, 42-year lease for a distribution center to be located at the Ave, Aviation and Commerce Center near the Opa-Locka Executive Airport. Terms of the lease agreement–the first signed at the Ave, Aviation and Commerce Center–were not disclosed.

The distribution center, to be located on 30 acres, will be used to sort all the incoming mail to South Florida.

Cpf investment group principal Ernesto Cambo tells GlobeSt.com that construction of the building is expected to begin in January with a March 2009 anticipated completion date. In addition to the USPS facility, cpf is expecting to break ground in January on another 151,000-sf speculative industrial building within the center. Leasing efforts have started for that building, but no leases have yet been signed.

Under development by locally based cpf investment group, the USD 250-million Ave, Aviation and Commerce Center is a 2.6-million-sf master-planned mixed-use park on 178 acres. It will include banks, shops, restaurants, office/flex space, warehouse and distribution facilities and corporate hangars. The project is adjacent to Miami Lakes and close to Route 826 and Interstate 75.

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