Tag: Europe

DX Ireland targets public sector with new postal service

Posted by | Apr 11, 2006 | |

DX Ireland, which provides business-to-business postal delivery services, is targeting the public service with a new product. Gov DX will allow Government departments and State agencies to send post to each other without having to use An Post. DX said its product would offer “a dependable early morning, next-day delivery service” which would be 30 per cent cheaper than An Post. DX says new postal solutions such as this will be required as Government departments are decentralised. Kevin Galligan, managing director of DX Ireland, said: “DX Ireland offers a simple, cost-efficient and reliable nationwide service. Customers do not have to sort, weigh or frank their mail – DX Ireland does all that for them.” DX said the new service would result in a major expansion of its public sector activities and James Hancock, who has become business development manager, will be responsible for public sector clients.

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Austrian Post staff vote for stock market flotation

Posted by | Apr 10, 2006 | |

Staff at Austrian Post have voted in support of the company’s planned stock market flotation this summer and an associated pay deal. The vote clears the way for Vienna to press ahead with planning the IPO.

Nearly 26,000 Austrian Post workers were called on by staff unions last week to decide whether to accept the results of negotiations between unions, the post office management and the Austrian government, or support ongoing protests against the IPO. A total of 56% of staff supported the deal in the vote that attracted a 59% participation rate.

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Mailing Houses: Tough lessons in deregulation

Posted by | Apr 10, 2006 | |

Postal liberalisation is revolutionising the UK’s mailing house market. It may put smaller firms out of business and encourage consolidation, but canny operators that rise to the challenge will survive and could even benefit from the competition, writes Alex Blyth.

The mailing house as we know it is becoming a thing of the past.

Postal deregulation, which came into force on 1 January, will change the shape and nature of the industry forever. It will put some mailing houses out of business, and many of the smaller ones will need to merge or align themselves with postal carriers in order to survive. Those who do survive will find their role significantly altered, as clients increasingly ask them for advice on which postal carrier to use. Quite simply, this is an issue that no-one in the mailing house sector can afford to ignore.

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Postcomm consults on a long term licence for ANC Limited

Posted by | Apr 10, 2006 | |

Postcomm today began a 30-day consultation on the proposed issue of a long-term licence to ANC Limited.

Under the new licensing framework that took effect from 1 January 2006, ANC Limited’s licence would:

allow it to provide all types of postal service;
be issued for a rolling ten year period
require the company to comply with codes of practice on mail integrity (safety and security of the mail) and common operational procedures (designed to ensure the multi-operator market works well in practice).

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Italy Antitrust Imposes 1.6 Mln Euro Fine on Poste Italiane

Posted by | Apr 10, 2006 | |

Italy’s antitrust regulator Antitrust has imposed a 1.6 mln euro (USD1.9 mln) fine on Italian state-owned postal services provider Poste Italiane, it was reported on April 8, 2006. Poste Italiane was fined because of an abuse of a dominant position in the hybrid electronic mail market and has privileged its subsidiary Postel. Poste Italiane has rendered the market inaccessible for competitors, which operate in the field of postal communication printing and enveloping for big companies, Antitrust said.

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