Deutsche Post’s parcel delivery service is expected to fall just short of its target for pre-tax returns (between 2.6 and three per cent). The EU Commission has forced it to create a separate marketing and sales company for business customers and the shortfall in earnings is being attributed to the cost of setting up the new division.
Read MoreCAMBRIDGE, England – Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq: AUTN; LSE: AU., Europe Nasdaq: AUTN), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that Consignia, the government-owned group which runs the UK’s Royal Mail, Post Office and Parcelforce Worldwide companies, has purchased Autonomy’s technology to automate content delivery on its new transactional e-channel, due to be launched later this year.
Under the terms of the contract, Autonomy’s technology will automate the aggregation, categorisation and delivery of information to customers under the Royal Mail, Post Office and Parcelforce brands. Autonomy will enable Consignia to create a customer-centric content engine by ensuring that visitors to the site receive the information that is most appropriate to their needs and interests, thus making their interaction with the site more productive.
Read MoreTime is man’s ultimate master—a phrase as relevant today as it ever was. But for the past 21 years they are words that one company, Leedsbased KG Sewell, has tried its best to challenge. For as deputy managing director Gary O’Gara explains, the main work of the firm is just-in-time deliveries. “We distribute these primarily to car companies,” he says. “Delivering items such as wheels, fuel tanks and car carpets.”
O’Gara has been at the company for five years but is steeped in its history. The firm was formed in 1980 by Ken Sewell with a small fleet of tonners; it soon developed the niche which remains the company’smain distinction today. “The niche is sending flyers to the car companies,” O’Gara explains. “Car companies will call us in when they quickly need a new item to continue their production lines. Flyers are simply a shortage of supply or product or the failure of a tool. We get them there on time.”
This is an incredibly challenging area, given the range of KG Sewell’s customers.
The Lithuanian parliament Thursday adopted a new version of the law governing postal carriers to bring the country’s legal code into line with EU norms.
The legislation establishes the legal framework within which postal carriers operate, the relationship between mail providers and customers, rights and responsibilities of postal carriers and their accountability for violating the law.
The law requires all postal carriers to have licenses from the government or government authorized agencies.
It also says the state carrier is to deliver pensions and other social welfare payments.
There was disagreement in the parliament over the rates the state enterprise can charge as compared with private postal carriers for services.
The postal branches of the French CGT and FO unions declared on Tuesday that the proposed deregulation of postal services within the European Union takes this sector “one step closer to privatisation”.
At the same time, the SUD union claimed that the meeting of ministers in Luxembourg has effectively approved “the complete deregulation of the postal market”, while the CFDT accused the French government of scaling down its demands on this issue. The resulting compromise, said the union, poses “a threat to jobs in the postal sector”.
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