Tag: Europe

Postal codes at risk (Danmark)

Posted by | May 5, 2008 | |

The arrival of foreign competition and liberalisation of the national postal service may result in new postal codes

Liberalisation of postal services may be the demise of the nation’s 40-year-old postal codes as the system, devised and administered by Post Danmark, may undergo drastic reform in the upcoming liberalisation of the nation’s postal service.

One proponent of such a reform is Citymail.

Jarle Trandokken, Norwegian state-owned Citymail’s Danish chief executive, said that the number of postal codes needed to be increased to encompass more addresses and making sorting easier.

To speed up the sorting process easier, Post Danmark invested in advanced sorting machines for scanning post, and Trandokken said it was unreasonable for new players on the market to have to make such substantial investments.

The Road and Transport Agency, the body responsible for inspection of the postal services, acknowledged that a postal liberalisation also came with considerations of reform in the area. However, Mogens Antonsen, a consultant with the agency said the present postal code system was not considered an obstacle.

In the mean time, Helge Israelsen, Post Danmark’s chief executive, said that he was unwilling to change the present postal system to accommodate Citymail’s objections.

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Irish Postal Operator Broadens Online Facilities

Posted by | May 5, 2008 | |

An Post, has recently added the facility to buy or renew TV Licences as part of its online facilities

Communications Minister Eamon Ryan last week launched www.tvlicence.ie, a handy and secure new website facility for buying and renewing a Television Licence.

As well as buying or renewing a licence, householders and businesses can use the new on-line facility to update their contact details, should they move house or premises during the term of their licence.

TV Licence Manager at An Post, Mary Harrahill, explained that buying or renewing a licence through www.tvlicence.ie is quick, secure and very easy to do: “First-time buyers simply key in their name and address. Existing customers use the reference number and PIN number displayed on the renewal notice. After confirming their details, customers can choose to pay by Laser, Visa or Mastercard. They can print off the payment confirmation and the new licence will be posted to them within ten working days, it’s simple as that.

1,059,682 licences were purchased by householders and businesses in 2007. A Television Licence costs EUR 160 per year. Every household, business, holiday home or other premises with a television must have a TV Licence. General TV Licence information is available on the website in Irish and eleven other languages including Chinese, Polish, Lithuanian, Portuguese and Spanish.

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TNT Post launches 'eco-mark' scheme

Posted by | May 5, 2008 | |

TNT Post is launching a carbon neutral addressed postal service which will allow brands to demonstrate their environmental credentials with a specially developed ‘eco-mark’.

Brands which want to display the eco-mark on their mailings will have to comply with a set of principles laid out by TNT.

In order to qualify, brands will have to undertake a carbon evaluation using a calculator which looks at the emissions of the entire mailing activity, from paper and packaging through to data, mailing house emissions and final delivery.

TNT will also assist participating brands with their carbon reduction by recommending suppliers that can help to reduce emissions, such as data cleansing and capturing undeliverables.

Brands using the service will also be required to offset their remaining emissions by investing in carbon reduction schemes.

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Syslore to deliver an address recognition and matching solution for Itella

Posted by | May 5, 2008 | |

Itella Mail Communication and Syslore Ltd. have signed a contract for the delivery of an address recognition and matching system for mail sorting and electronic message delivery services.

By adopting the Syslore mCorrection Receiver Matching EngineTM (RME) fuzzy matching system, Itella will improve the address and receiver recognition quality in their hybrid and electronic message delivery service and increase the level of automation in their mail sorting process. mCorrection RME system incorporates new-generation computing algorithms that can recognise faulty, inaccurate and incorrect address and receiver data more effectively and more precisely than was possible before. The system will be deployed to all Itella address recognition processes by 2010 in Finland and abroad.

The system operates as a centralised solution, which receives real-time address queries over a network connection from several automatic mail sorting machines in different sorting centres. If, for example, the mail receiver name can be recognised, but the address data is incorrect or only partly recognised, the system can find the correct address data from the address database up to the mail delivery point. Apart from increasing the level of automation in mail sorting, the solution can decrease the number of mail delivered to incorrect addresses and monitor the quality of address recognitions and sorting process.

A centralised software solution can also remarkably improve the quality and throughput time of address and receiver recognition for Itella’s electronic and hybrid services. mCorrection RME incorporates open interfaces and language-independent algorithms that enable more efficient use of existing systems and postal data assets, and improve the quality of service.

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Deutsche Post World Net: Preview of the first quarter 2008

Posted by | May 5, 2008 | |

Business in the first quarter of 2008 was very satisfactory with underlying profits making progress year on year and being in line with our targets and guidance. There were two fewer working days in the first quarter, which will reverse in the second quarter. Last year’s first-quarter LOGISTICS result included a 59 million-euro profit from the disposal of Vfw.

Volume growth and general trends, particularly in the LOGISTICS and EXPRESS Business Divisions, continued to be similar to the latter part of 2007. New order intake from major accounts (Global Customer Solutions) and from LOGISTICS generally was encouraging.

In its customer business Deutsche Postbank recorded, adjusted for the impact from capital market turbulence, a good operating result in line with plan.

The company continues to make progress in refining our plan to improve performance substantially in the U.S. EXPRESS business. The company said it will make a further announcement on the initiative, as guided, by the end of May.

Detailed first-quarter results will be published, as planned, on May 14, 2008. A conference call for investors will be held at 2 p.m. (CEST) that day.

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