Tag: Europe

Post Office calls for ID contract to cut closures (UK)

Posted by | Jun 20, 2008 | |

Ministers are being urged by the Post Office to give it valuable contracts to take over the distribution of ID cards, biometric data, and e-passports, in a bid to save it from a further round of politically-damaging closures, and loss of customers.

The organisation is arguing in private talks with ministers that it is best placed to take on some of these contracts since it is already responsible for checking passport applications and has an existing national network to draw upon. Ministers in both the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Home Office are stressing that they cannot hand out the contract without open commercial competition, but see both political and business advantages to a deal.

Ministers have met top figures in the Post Office to discuss the contracts, and other ways in which government can provide customers, after the Post Office was criticised for a sweeping closure plan.

Post Office retention of such contracts of national necessity is vital if ministers are to persuade the European Union that government subsidies remain lawful under EU law. Brussels has approved a subsidy of GBP 150m a year to enable the parent company Royal Mail, wholly government-owned, to run a network of 11,500 post offices by keeping loss-making branches open.

The government has sanctioned the closure of 2,500 post offices by the end of the year in a programme that has met fierce resistance across the country, but is designed to cut post office losses. The network lost GBP 200m in 2006-7, while Royal Mail is handling 3m fewer letters a day than last year.

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Community post offices stay open in Jersey

Posted by | Jun 20, 2008 | |

Jersey Post has said it has no plans to close any of the community post offices on the island.

The announcement comes despite the company’s core business losing nearly GBP 1m in 2007.

But Jersey Post said it had been one of its best years overall, with profits nearly doubling in business mail.

Chief executive John Pinel said: “The company has no plans to close any sub-post offices but is looking at how and when they’re used.”

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Correos sells viajes crisol prepaid

Posted by | Jun 20, 2008 | |

“TURCORREOS” cards went on sale today at 50 post offices around Spain. This is the first step in extending this service to the entire network of over 2,200 post offices throughout the country.

The TURCORREOS card can be topped up at nine offices in Catalonia, nine more in the Community of Madrid, five in the Community of Valencia, four in Extremadura, and offices in Castilla-Leon, Galicia, the Balearic Islands, the Basque Country, Castilla-La Mancha, Asturias, Aragon, Navarre, La Rioja and Murcia.

This new service is the result of the collaboration agreement signed between CORREOS and Viajes Crisol, in which the public can top up these cards, a convenient and safe way to pay for holidays and associated services, such as hotel rooms or car rental, amongst other tourist and holiday services offered by Viajes Crisol, at the post offices.

Viajes Crisol’s Sales Manger Ignacio González and CORREOS Office Division Manger Germán Domínguez presented the prepaid card at an event held at the public postal operator’s Management Centre in Madrid.

The agreement, which includes the concession of the use of the “TURCORREOS” registered trademark by the postal company to Viajes Crisol, has been launched as a long-term venture and was signed in April by CORREOS Chairman José Damián Santiago Martín and Viajes Crisol Managing Director José María Lucas.

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Regional Commonwealth in the field of Communications (RCC) International Seminar and Joint Meeting of Postal Operators Board hosted by Haypost in cooperation with the Universal Postal Union (UPU)

Posted by | Jun 20, 2008 | |

For the first time in Armenia, in cooperation with UPU, Haypost CJSC, the national postal operator of Armenia, hosted an international seminar for RCC Administrations experts entitled “Postal marketing development as an instrument of access to knowledge and experience” on June 10-11, followed by the joint meeting of RCC Commission and Postal Operators Board on June 12.

The seminar was attended by representatives from RCC member countries, namely, Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, as well as the Latvian “Latvijas Pasts”, PostEurop, British Royal Mail, French “La Poste”, Finnish “Posti”, and the UPU International Bureau’s Regional Office.

“Such international seminars and joint meetings are very helpful in terms of enabling knowledge-sharing and exchange of best practices, as well as in the development of cooperation between postal administrators”, says Hans Boon, Director General of Haypost CJSC.

One of the most important outcomes of the seminar was the establishment of a unified plan of action in preparation for the upcoming 24th Congress of Universal Postal Union to be held in Geneva on 23 July – 12 August.

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Azkar opens logistics centre in China

Posted by | Jun 20, 2008 | |

Azkar Overseas has officially opened its logistics facility in the city of Shanghai. Manned by expert personnel, speaking Chinese, Spanish, English and Russian, Azkar is operating closer to its customers not only in China but across Southeast Asia, offering value added services at origin (labelling, checking and preparation of orders) and assisting in the consolidation of loads out of ports.

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