Tag: Europe

Airline postal service to stay in u-turn

Posted by | Feb 7, 2005 | |

Aer Lingus has rescinded its decision not to carry An Post mail to Britain and Europe and is continuing to ferry the post six days a week for the cash-strapped postal company. Last September, as part of further cost cutting moves, the airline announced that it would axe its postal and courier service to Britain and Europe from January 1 this year leaving An Post with no option but to look for another service provider.Aer Lingus had earlier signalled that it would drop cargo services in Europe from the start of this year. At the time An Post chief operating officer Larry Donald said the company would look at alternatives for its outbound mail service and warned there would be a cost issue for An Post which had operating losses of 30m in 2003.

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Italian post office strengthens ties with France

Posted by | Feb 7, 2005 | |

The Italian post office, Poste Italiane, saw its mail volume rise by 10 per cent last year, to 7.2 billion items. At the same time, there was a double-digit increase in mail revenues, owing to growth in the most profitable segments of the market, such as direct marketing and commercial post. Poste Italiane has now decided to forge closer links with its French counterpart, La Poste, by making its unit-linked life assurance policies available in French post offices. At the same time, it has raised its stake in Aspheria, its joint-venture with La Poste, to 40 per cent.

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Second Royal Mail rival faces court over dumping

Posted by | Feb 7, 2005 | |

Another competitor to Royal Mail will later this month face court action for throwing away mail. Postcomm, the industry regulator, will present evidence against an individual working for one of Royal Mail’s rivals at Redditch, West Midlands. It will be the second prosecution of a new postal operator in two months as the regulator aims to ensure that service standards are maintained.
Competitors to Royal Mail include Express Dairies, UK Mail, Deutsche Post, TPG and Hays DX. A spokesman for Postcomm said: “There will be more prosecutions. We hope there won’t be too many more, but we have to ensure that the new operators maintain adequate standards.” Postwatch, the consumers’ group, said: “The higher profile the action against dumping, the better, as it is one of the constant problems in the postal service. But it also does not seem a level playing field when rival operators face prosecution but Royal Mail deals with dumping incidents itself.”

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Irish An Post plans for range of bank services

Posted by | Feb 6, 2005 | |

An Post will soon be competing with credit unions when it starts offering a range of banking and financial services, if proposals by senior management are accepted by the board of the company. In a significant shake-up of its commercial strategy, An Post management believes it should offer banking and credit facilities, ATM services and financial products such as home and life insurance to customers. The new financial services portfolio will be put to the board of An Post in the coming months. It is unlikely to include mortgages, opting instead to compete at the lower end of the scale with credit unions.
Donal Curtin, the chief executive of An Post, told a Dail committee on communications last week that he aimed to “capitalise on the footfall in our offices and, in particular, develop a financial services portfolio capable of delivering significant levels of profitable business'”.

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German Saxony-Anhalt to invest 67 mln Euro to help DHL project

Posted by | Feb 4, 2005 | |

The state government of the northern German state of Saxony-Anhalt will invest 67 mln euro (USD86 mln) to support German-based global courier firm DHL’s project to build an air freight logistics centre at the Leipzig-Halle airport, the state transport minister Karl-Heinz Daehre said on January 3, 2005. The Saxony-Anhalt government will invest in a new runway at the Leipzig-Halle airport, and will provide land for the logistics centre. DHL’s decision to move its logistics centre to the Leipzig region is important not only for the city, but will also positively affect the labour markets of the states of Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia, Daehre said.

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