The French competition authorities have approved a 90 per cent reduction in the financial sanction it would normally have imposed on national postal services group La Poste for abuse of its dominant position in its mail and parcel delivery services.
Read MoreIan Kavanagh, Managing Director of BTB Mailflight Ltd was today delighted to announce BTB Mailflight’s acquisition of Mailflow International Ltd.
BTB Mailflight Ltd, one of the UK’s leading international mailing houses has acquired Mailflow International to help the company accelerate towards their growth objectives.
Ian Kavanagh commented “Adding Mailflow to the BTB Mailflight Group increases our market share in the international mail arena and will further increase our buying power. This puts us in an even better position to continue to offer some of the most cost effective international mailing solutions available”.
Read MoreDeutsche Post has defended itself against accusations by trade union ver.di that separating letter sorting and delivery will lead to a drop in quality. Ver.di says that plans by Deutsche Post to use machines to automatically sort post by 2007, instead of postal workers doing it themselves will mean workers being forced to work part-time, which in turn would lead to a drop in quality. The union has also told Deutsche Post that its workers are disenchanted and working a mountain of overtime.
Read MoreLa Poste, the French postal service operator, is planning to sell train tickets for French rail operator SNCF with effect from 2005. It already has the necessary internet terminals in around 1,000 post offices to enable ticket reservation.
Read MoreThe Belgian post office damaged almost half the parcels it transported as part of a European wide test, it emerged on Tuesday. The European Consumer Centre (ECC), which is subsidised by the European Commission, used national post offices across the EU to send 260 parcels to 13 destinations, La Derniere Heure reported. All of the parcels weighed 2.5 kilograms and were sent on 14 September. On average 13.6 percent of the packages arrived damaged at their destinations. But those handled by the Belgian Post office had a much worse time. A total of 46 percent – almost half – of the 24 parcels the post office had to process were damaged when they reached their destinations, the ECC found.
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