Tag: Domestic

Deutsche Post is sending out more than 20 million notifications on the 2007 pension adjustment

Posted by | Jun 20, 2007 | |

In the next few days, Deutsche Post will be sending out approximately 21 million notifications on the 2007 pension adjustment to pension recipients in Germany and abroad.

As of July 1, 2007, pensions are being adjusted based on the Pension Valuation Regulations (“Rentenwertbestimmungsverordnung”) of 2007. Deutsche Post’s Pension Service is carrying out the necessary work on behalf of the pension and accident insurance institutions for the vast majority of pensions based on the fixed adjustment rates. In the case of pensions that are paid in advance, the new payment amounts will be remitted for the first time at the end of June, and all others, at the end of July 2007.

The dispatch of all notifications will be completed by mid-July 2007.

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TNT Post wins two year contract with Intergamma

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

TNT NV’s TNT Post has won a two year contract from Intergamma BV to distribute flyers for Intergamma’s home improvement chains the company said.

Financial details were not disclosed.

TNT said the contract was an extension of past agreements and involves the regular distribution of door-to-door flyers from the Gamma and Karwei store chains with a combined circulation of 10.3 mln copies.

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Royal Mail loses contract with Amazon

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

Royal Mail today confirmed that online retailer Amazon has decided it will move its Second Class mailings, worth £8m, from Royal Mail.

Royal Mail said, “We’re very proud to work with Amazon and the loss of such a significant piece of their business demonstrates very clearly that Royal Mail’s higher costs, directly caused by our failure to fully modernise our operations, are costing us business. It’s vital that we urgently change and modernise if we are to be able to compete against more efficient rivals who have already done so.

“At the same time our customers are being threatened with disruption because of strikes – strikes which are aimed at preventing exactly the modernisation that could keep our big customers on board.

“Customers like Amazon are critical to us, and to our competitors. They represent an important area of growth in a market which is otherwise declining as fewer items of mail are sent.”

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UAE FedEx customers vote for ‘Courier Of The Year’

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

FedEx Express, the world’s largest express transportation company, has announced the winners of the Second Annual Courier of the Year Competition for Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

The FedEx Courier of the Year Award is a unique recognition program that enables those in the best position to evaluate customer service and to select the winner. Customers voted online for their respective FedEx courier, based on their politeness, presentation and helpfulness.

For Abu Dhabi, the Courier of the Year is Thomas Leo and for Dubai, Eloi Oandasan.

In addition to the prestige of winning the Courier of the Year Award, both couriers received a cash prize and an additional week’s holiday.

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U.S. New homeowners decry cluster boxes

Posted by | Jun 17, 2007 | |

Across the nation, the U.S. Postal Service increasingly is delivering mail to communal cluster boxes as a way to keep pace with booming residential growth while controlling labor costs. The new strategy, aimed at new developments in fast-growing areas such as Clarksburg, Leesburg and Waldorf, saves the postal service time and money.

“Instead of going from door to door, from lawn to lawn, from driveway to driveway, we have a central location,” said Luvenia Hyson, a postal service regional spokeswoman.

But many residents and developers say cluster boxes, traditionally reserved for apartments and townhouses, not single-family homes, are impersonal, inconvenient and downright ugly.

The communal delivery system’s detractors include the National Association of Home Builders, which is lobbying against it. A.J. Holliday, a lawyer for the Washington-based interest group, called the new postal strategy “discrimination” against people buying new homes.

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