Leaders of the Russian and Estonian postal services will discuss in the course of three days opportunities of closer cooperation between the two countries’ postal institutions.
Directors of Estonian Post will receive on Wednesday Russian post office directors and brief them about the organization of the country’s postal service, a spokesman for Estonian Post reported.
Post Danmark, the Danish post office, is one step closer to entering extensive partnerships after its public servant employees have agreed to conditions similar to those of all other Post Danmark employees, giving up special conditions normally given to public servants. The public servants had previously indirectly prevented Post Denmark from entering partnerships.
Read MorePost Danmark, Denmark’s national postal service, is ready to be transformed into a public limited company, followed by a privatisation and participation in a joint venture or a merger with for example a foreign postal and parcel company, daily Jyllands-Posten reported.
Read MoreGlobal Crossing (NYSE: GX) has begun the implementation of a fully managed wide area network for the Royal Mail in the UK under a contract with Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems worth an estimated GBP23 million. Royal Mail is the nationwide postal service operated by holding company Consignia.
Read MoreColin Millbanks, head of French-owned GeoPost UK, dismissed remarks by Consignia chief executive John Roberts that ‘our costs are running ahead of income’. Said Mr Millbanks: ‘It is not about costs. Parcelforce Worldwide does not charge enough in the marketplace. ‘It is offering ridiculous rates that are endangering the position of the other players. Tom Bell, managing director of TNT Express Services in the UK, agreed that Parcelforce’s ratecard was ‘wrongly calibrated’.
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