Tag: Domestic

TNT Post becomes major postal provider for the Welsh public sector

Posted by | Aug 20, 2007 | |

This month, TNT Post’s South West & South Wales team has started handling mail for two NHS Trusts in the Welsh public sector in what is predicted to be the biggest postal deal in the country since full deregulation of the postal service in 2006.

The deal will see TNT Post work collaboratively with Value Wales, under the OGC Buying Solutions Framework as a supplier to public sector organizations in Wales. By working in partnership with Value Wales, TNT Post will look to handle across the Public Sector over 100,000 items a day by the end of the first year, resulting in the Welsh tax payer saving an estimated GBP 1 million.

The first bodies to work with TNT Post will be the Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust and Gwent Healthcare NHS Trusts. Together they will pass an estimated 12,000 mail items daily to TNT Post in South Wales and as a result of these savings, the Trusts will be able to channel this money into the delivery of their front-line services.

TNT Post in the South West & South Wales has to date secured a number of significant customer wins during the first six months of trading and now has more than 50 customers in the area.

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Raja may dust off postal bill in bid to revive India Posts

Posted by | Aug 20, 2007 | |

After putting the issue on the backburner for a couple of months on account of strong protests from private courier players, the ministry of communications under telecom minister A Raja has now revived work on amendments to the controversial postal bill.

Private courier companies are opposed to the proposed bill as it intends to prevent them from carrying any letter or parcel below 150 grams and also seeks to limit the foreign direct investment in the sector to 49 pct. The bill also envisages that private courier companies who want to deliver letters below this slab (150 grams) do so at a price which is five times more than the rates charged by India Post or 2.5 times Speed Post rates.

At the same time, the communications ministry is yet to take a call as to whether the bill would be introduced in the current session of the Parliament.

The source also said that despite opposition from private courier industry, the government was unlikely to renegotiate on key issues like creation of a regulator for the postal sector — Mail Regulatory Development Authority, the 150 grams weight slab reservation for India Post and mandating that large courier companies pay 10 pct of their total revenues as an universal social obligation fee as in the telecom sector.

The ministry official also added that the government was yet to take a final call on limiting the FDI cap to 49 pct. If this FDI cap is imposed, then multinational players like DHL, TNT and Federal Express will soon have to go scouting for Indian partners.

Besides, the draft bill also recommends that foreign players be subject to an entry fee of Rs 1 million and a renewal fee of Rs 0.5 million per annum, as against Rs 25,000 and Rs 10,000, respectively for Indian courier companies.

The Express Industry Council of India (EICI), the umbrella organization representing both domestic and international courier companies in India, has said that the proposed amendments, if approved, could maim the Rs 35 billion, domestic industry, especially the small players while also limiting the choice for consumers.

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Australia Post: Quarter Delivery Results

Posted by | Aug 16, 2007 | |

Australia Post has again exceeded its delivery standard according to the most recent review, independently audited by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
Across Australia for the quarter ended June 2007, 96.5 percent of domestic letters were delivered early or on time, and 99.0 percent within one day of Australia Post’s customer service standard.
According to Australia Post’s customer service standard, 94 percent of domestic mail must be delivered within specific time periods. For example: For standard size letters placed in a post box before 6pm, Australia Post undertakes to deliver that letter within the same metropolitan area by the next business day.
Across Australia, delivery targets were exceeded in every state. Tasmania was again the strongest performer with 98.0 percent, followed very closely by the Australian Capital Territory 97.2 pct and Queensland 97.0 pct. The national average was 95.8 per cent.

To ascertain whether Australia Post is meeting its delivery targets, the ‘travel’ of domestic letters is monitored using radio frequency identification technology and a network of more than 2,000 members of the public across Australia. The results are independently audited by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
“We continue to see gains from our investments both in technology and our people. These results demonstrate a real team effort at Australia Post and are something that the Australian public can be proud of,” said spokesperson Melanie Powell.
“This quarter’s strong results reconfirm that Australia Post is amongst the best postal services in the world this is a credit to our thirty five thousand employees across the country,” she said.

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PIN picks up Berlin city mail contract

Posted by | Aug 14, 2007 | |

prestigious mail contract from the Berlin city government.

PIN Mail, its Berlin-based subsidiary, has retained the Berlin contract following a tender, the company announced. The contract runs for 12 months with an option to extend it for a further year up to a maximum of three years.

PIN will deliver some 28 million letters a year covering all official documents up to a weight of 1kg. The contract is worth EUR 12.6 million in annual revenues.

“The renewed contract for PIN confirms the confidence of the state of Berlin in the quality of our service,” said Axel Stirl, managing director of PIN Mail. The company employs 1,000 staff in Berlin.

The news follows criticism by Deutsche Post chairman Klaus Zumwinkel of low wages at rival mail firms such as PIN Group and TNT Post. PIN Group chief executive Günter Thiel told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview that he expected other German cities to follow the example of Berlin. In contrast, a Deutsche Post spokesman played down the importance of the Berlin contract, the newspaper added.

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Post Office workers stage fresh strike

Posted by | Aug 13, 2007 | |

Thousands of Post Office workers are today staging a pay strike, which comes after separate industrial action by postal workers was called off last week.

In the latest walkout to hit Britain’s postal service, staff employed at crown post office branches are striking after 5,500 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) rejected a two-year pay freeze proposed by the Post Office.

The union says that 465 crown post offices were affected last Monday 13th August.

A similar strike is also planned for Wednesday 15th August, with staff also disgruntled at plans to close 70 crown post office branches – main branches sited on the UK’s high streets – and transfer services to retailer WH Smith.

At the centre of the dispute are Royal Mail’s modernization plans, which union leaders claim will result in the loss of up to 40,000 jobs.

The CWU claimed last week that the plans involved “significant changes including later delivery start times and permanent reductions in customer services” and represented an “unnecessary attack on postal workers’ jobs, pay and conditions”.

However Royal Mail has said that the union is “ignoring the harsh commercial reality” of the UK postal market, which was recently opened up to full competition.

The postal services provider insists that modernization is necessary because it is losing business to rivals who have more efficient operations and lower prices.

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