Oct 22, 2001, (Die Welt /FT Information via COMTEX) — Deutsche Post AG, Germany’s postal services operator, is to keep its letter monopoly until 2007, it was announced yesterday. The monopoly had previously been scheduled to end on 31 December 2002.
Read MoreMartin Vial, chairman of the French post office (La Poste), is currently preparing both the organisation’s employees and the general public for the change of status which La Poste will undergo as the deregulation of the European postal sector continues. Paradoxically, the biggest change is expected to take place in the field of financial services, which currently contribute around 20 per cent of La Poste’s earnings and employ approximately 60,000 of its 300,000 staff.
Read MoreDeutsche Post, the German post office operator, plans to introduce a new logistics system for e-commerce and mail order. By the end of this month, a pilot scheme will have been launched whereby 24 computer-controlled machines will be installed in Mainz and Dresden, from which customers will be able to collect parcels.
Read MoreOPC went into receivership in September
Read MoreGUS fulfilment arm Reality has had its contract to handle parcel deliveries for TV shopping giant QVC extended by 3 years. Reality has been QVCs partner since the channels UK launch in 1993.
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