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UPU: ALACOPP joins the Consultative Committee

Posted by | Apr 3, 2008 | |

The Consultative Committee of the UPU has just welcomed a new member: the Latin American Association of Private Posts and Postal Operators (ALACOPP). This association, which is made up of private operators from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay, analyzes opportunities and challenges in the postal sector in order to increase the market for all industry players. The highly fragmented postal market in Latin America is made up of public operators and a large number of private entreprises.

According to ALACOPP’s Executive Director, Marcela MARON: “The challenge before us is for Latin America’s private operators to be successfully integrated into the work of the UPU, and for public and private operators to work together in our region to develop the postal sector as a whole, in order to improve the quality of service.”

The UPU Consultative Committee gives postal players other than public postal operators and regulators a voice in the organization’s deliberations. It consists of non-governmental organizations representing customers, delivery service providers, workers’ organizations, suppliers of goods and services to the postal sector and other organizations that have an interest in international postal services, including direct marketers, private operators, international mailers, philatelic associations and publishers.

As well as being the 25th member of the UPU Consultative Committee, ALACOPP is an observer member of the Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal (PUASP).

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DHL's operations are in full bloom this Valentine's Day

Posted by | Feb 11, 2008 | |

DHL is exporting an estimated 15 million fresh cut flowers from Latin America this Valentine’s Day season, for delivery to customers in the U.S. and around the world. A combination of roses, carnations, tropical flowers and greens originating from Colombia, Ecuador and Costa Rica has already made its way into the U.S., as well as other destinations that celebrate the February 14 holiday, including the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Russia.

DHL consolidates floral parcels from growers in Latin America and protects the life of the flowers by using bonded cold storage facilities to keep the product cool prior to air transport and immediately upon arrival. Ninety percent of the floral shipments destined for the U.S. market go through Miami where they undergo agricultural inspection at the DHL terminal in Miami.

DHL customer VistaFlor Corp., a Colombian grower that exports bouquets, wedding flowers and arrangements to the U.S. for special occasions, will see its export volume soar from its normal average 5,000 boxes of flowers per week to as many as 53,000 boxes during the week leading up to Valentine’s Day. In addition to maintaining VistaFlor’s shipments at the required 36 degrees Fahrenheit (2 to 4 degrees Celsius), DHL handles the shipment documentation, freight brokerage, customs paperwork and clearance processes.

For its U.S. customers, DHL will deliver millions of flowers to retailers and consumers on or before February 14. DHL in the U.S. has added refrigerated trucks and dedicated flights exclusively for some of the most popular floral retailers and e-tailers.

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UPU and PUASP organize first training workshop for Latin America in Ecuador

Posted by | Aug 31, 2007 | |

Within the framework of a regional development plan (RDP) drawn up jointly by the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal (PUASP), the two organizations teamed up with Correos del Ecuador to organize a training course in Quito from 21 to 23 August 2007.

The purpose of this workshop, which brought together specialists from some twenty Latin American postal operators, was two-fold: first, to encourage postal operators to adopt management tools to attract and maintain the loyalty of large customers, strengthen their business relations and increase their revenues; and second, to put in place a regional action plan, based on exchanges of experience, aimed at organizing the management of large customers and small- and medium-sized businesses.

The participants, which included the PUASP Secretary General, Serrana BASSINI, and the UPU Deputy Director General, Guozhong HUANG, as well as experts from their respective organizations and the region’s operators, took careful stock of the situation and identified potential market niches in areas such as parcels, marketing of existing services and value-added products.

This Latin American postal market development agreement, which will be monitored and supported by the PUASP and the UPU, will lead to three pilot projects geared towards increasing operators’ ability to manage large customers. Processes providing for the incorporation of business mail into operators’ market development activities will also be developed.

Through this project, the UPU and the PUASP wish to emphasize the importance of coordinating actions to increase the capacity of Posts to meet the needs of large customers, namely domestic public services and major export companies.

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Post offices to offer electronic int'l transfers

Posted by | Jan 25, 2006 | |

The postal services of Colombia (Adpostal) and Ecuador (Correos del Ecuador) were scheduled to sign an agreement on Wednesday to permit electronic transfers of cash between the two countries, Colombia’s presidential website reported.
Once the agreement is signed, both countries will have 90 days to implement a system to allow the transfers. The agreement is backed by the Universal Postal Union and the Unión Postal de las Américas, España y Portugal, which are providing technical assistance.

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TNT service extended

Posted by | Jul 25, 2005 | |

TNT has extended its Express Import service to 20 additional countries, including Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Morocco, Libya, Madagascar, Iraq and Sri Lanka. The service allows customers to arrange collections from a client in another country and pay for the delivery in their own currency. They can also send shipments to a receiver in another country and have them pay for the transaction in the local currency, removing any difficulties arising from exchange rate conversions and fluctuations.

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