Czech state postal service CP to open branches in retail chains to win back customers
State-owned Czech postal service Ceska posta (CP) plans to open tens of new branches in Czech retail chains in a bid to win back customers who have turned to online or bank payment services, Czech daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) reported Tuesday.
Read MoreDocumentServices AG, a subsidiary of Swiss Post, took over the printing and packaging centre of Swisscom IT Services, the IT services arm of leading phone carrier Swisscom, with immediate effect from July 4, 2006.
No details of the purchase price were revealed.
Read MoreDX Services PLC confirmed that it has received an approach which may or may not lead to a cash offer for the company at 415 pence per share.
Read MorePortugal’s postal traffic exceeded 77 million shipments in the first quarter of 2006, up 30 pct year-on-year, data from the local communications regulator Anacom showed on July 3, 2006.
Compared to the last quarter of 2005, the country’s postal traffic grew by some 14.7 pct.
Some 4.0 million of the total number of 77 million shipments in the three-month period to March 2006 were express mail deliveries.
Read MoreDX Ireland, which was considering starting a postal delivery service to rival An Post, has postponed the idea until after the postal market is fully liberalised, saying it is not financially viable.
Under the terms of existing legislation, any newcomer to the postal market has to charge 2.5 times the 48 cent charged by State postal operator An Post for all items under 50g.
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