Tag: Europe

Deutsche Post may face legal action from GLS

Posted by | May 24, 2005 | |

General Logistics Systems (GLS), the German parcel forwarding subsidiary of UK postal group Royal Mail, is threatening legal action against German postal operator Deutsche Post. GLS, formerly named German Parcel, is demanding access to the delivery service of Deutsche Post as part of a plan to expand into letter deliveries. It argues that the discounts allowed by the postal service operator to rivals for the consignment of pre-sorted letters are insufficient at a maximum of 20 per cent. GLS is planning to collect letters from customers, carry out sorting and transfer the mail to the distribution network of Deutsche Post, but this plan has been rejected by Deutsche Post so far.

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Promulgation of new French Postal Law

Posted by | May 24, 2005 | |

New legislation on the postal sector in France, which, by 1 January 2006, will authorize the state postal service operator La Poste to create an establishment and will also open the postal sector to competition, has been promulgated in a state legal publication.

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Ceska Posta monopoly to be reduced to 50-gram letters next year

Posted by | May 23, 2005 | |

Ceska posta, the Czech Post Office, will see its monopoly position reduced next year and while now it is the sole company to deliver mail weighing less than 100 grams, next year it will be only letters up to 50 grams, the IT Ministry told CTK today. As for the price, now it can charge 3-times the current price, which will be cut to 2.5-times that price. Mail weighing 50 to 100 grams now make up less than 2 pct of some 700 million letters delivered annually at the moment. Ceska posta estimates that due to the market liberalisation it would lose half of them at the most, which would cause it a loss worth several dozens of millions of crowns. “Of course, there will be a fall, but it will not be too big,” Vancura said.

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Amtrak launches overnight delivery service for perishable goods

Posted by | May 23, 2005 | |

Amtrak has launched an overnight delivery service for perishable and delicate items. This builds on the firm‘s WineTrak wine delivery service, now extended to foods, flowers and other perishables increasingly sold by retailers, manufacturers and specialist shops via websites and catalogues. Items are routed to a dedicated fragile goods distribution centre for hand sorting, supported by wireless scanning technology.

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Parcelforce moves back into profit

Posted by | May 19, 2005 | |

Parcelforce has just about moved into modest profit after a decade of losses. It reported a profit from operations in the second half of the financial year, although for the year it lost GBP13m on a turnover of GBP298m. The loss is an improvement on last year when Parcelforce lost GBP54m. Turnover increased by 5.6%. ‘The business‘s radical restructuring, with a focus on express, time guaranteed services for customers is paying off,‘ says Allan Leighton, Royal Mail chairman.

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