Tag: Europe

Postkantoren BV and TNT Logistics sign contract

Posted by | Jun 14, 2005 | |

Postkantoren B.V. and TNT Benelux & Multi Country Logistics have signed a new contract. Spearhead of the contract is the consolidation of various product flows at the TNT site in Maarssen, the Netherlands. Postkantoren B.V. is a joint venture between TNT N.V. and ING N.V. The company owns the Bruna chain of stores. Postkantoren has 800 sites in the Netherlands, 500 of which are franchised postal agents and 300 self-owned.
Consumers are offered a wide range of products, from cinema vouchers, moped licences and lottery tickets to fishing permits and bus and tram cards. Postkantoren last year decided to assign these products to three main logistics flows.

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Sale of cigarettes to end in Ceska posta branches this year

Posted by | Jun 14, 2005 | |

Czech postal services operator Ceska posta will stop selling cigarettes in all of its branches at the end of this year, even earlier in branches where the contract allows it, Klara Volna of the IT Ministry responsible for Ceska Posta told CTK yesterday. Ceska posta spokesman Ladislav Vancura would not comment at the present time.

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UK Mail union gears to oppose sell-off

Posted by | Jun 13, 2005 | |

The largest union for Royal Mail workers yesterday began its annual conference with a promise to fight attempts to privatise the national postal operator and threatened to break links with Labour if the government sold any of its stake.
The Communication Workers Union, which represents 160,000 of Royal Mail’s 200,000 staff, is concerned about plans for a John Lewis-style partial privatisation of Royal Mail, which is being touted by the operator’s management.
It supported Labour in the general election after winning a manifesto commitment to keep Royal Mail “publicly owned”, but now fears it has been betrayed by senior ministers. Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, said: “We will fight any attempt to sell off or screw up Royal Mail. The CWU values our link to the Labour party . . . but I have no illusions about how that link will crumble if the government breaks its promise.”

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Compensation to be paid for lost or delayed mail in Malta

Posted by | Jun 13, 2005 | |

Maltapost has pledged to speed up the delivery of letters and compensate senders for lost or delayed mail in a series of improvements to its service that could go a long way to resolving the public’s complaints. The revisions the company will undertake are contained in a document on Quality of Service Requirements published by the Malta Communications Authority as required by the Postal Services Act. The document pledges to set right most of the concerns aired in a customer perceptions survey carried out last November, which had indicated general dissatisfaction with the time taken to deliver mail and with Maltapost’s overall performance. A compensation scheme for local ordinary mail will come into force in October.

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DTI sets up review of UK Royal Mail’s future in the free market

Posted by | Jun 12, 2005 | |

Alan Johnson, the Secretary of state for Trade and Industry, is to appoint a special committee to review Royal Mail’s future. Mr Johnson is considering potential candidates to chair the committee, and an official announcement is expected within a fortnight. The committee would consider the impact of competition, Royal Mail’s plans to improve profitability and the future of the Post Office network, a well-placed source said. The review, promised in the Labour manifesto, is a prelude to the postal market being fully opened to competition in 2006.

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