Tag: Europe

Itella studies and develops the usability of Posti web service

Posted by | Apr 9, 2008 | |

Itella is developing public web services to make them more user-friendly. The project will start with the Posti.fi website, one of Finland’s most frequently used electronic transaction services. During the spring of 2008, Itella and Logica will cooperate in a study on how the current website serves senior citizens and how the usability of the site could be improved, both as regards senior users and other website visitors.

The Posti website attracts almost one million visits on a monthly basis. The use of the Internet both for information searches and eTransactions is increasing, and a growing number of senior citizens use the Web for various transactions. – In future, the easy usability of online services will be one of the key features of the information society in providing services for people of all ages. Itella wants to be the first to contribute to this cause, comments Tarja Hopeakangas, Business Development Manager responsible for Itella’s online services.

In April, Itella and Logica will test and study the usability of the current Posti website with a test group comprising people of 60 years of age or over. Enter ry, a senior citizens’ information technology association, is contributing to the selection of the test group. The association has participated in many public sector projects as an expert and usability tester. The tests will provide valuable information on how to make it easier to search for information.

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Spanish Post Office renews cleaning contract with Pardo-Valcarce Foundation

Posted by | Apr 9, 2008 | |

Spanish postal operator Correos and the Pardo-Valcarce Foundation have renewed a contract which will continue to see employees with special needs, repairing, maintaining and washing equipment used by Correos employees including crash helmets, mail bags and plastic containers.

Correos has been working with the Foundation for 16 years as part of it’s Corporative Social Responsibility plan. Correos continues to support the use of people with physical and mental disabilities.

In 2007, a total of 59 young people with disabilities were employed with the Occupational Factory in conjunction with support from the Special Center of the Pardo-Valcarce Foundation.

In recent years many containers that were made from fabric or rafia have been replaced with plastics, all of which which require regular cleaning. The cleaning unit has seen 844,938 washed trays, 15 pct more than in 2006. The cleaning is to remove bacteria, fungi and to reduce the risk of diseases.

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French postal workers angry about modernisation plans

Posted by | Apr 9, 2008 | |

With increasing use of the Internet and the SMS, the French are writing less and less. The French postal oprator, La Poste, recorded a fall of 1 pct in mail volume in 2007. However, French unions have reacted angrily to plans by La Poste to introduce bigger sorting centres to replace smaller ones which could see hundreds of redundancies.

Raymond Redding, Director General of La Poste emphasised the need to modernise saying: “We are investing some 81 million euros in new mail equipment in Brittany to ensure the business remains profitable.”

New modernised sorting operations are to be set up in Brittany, as well as at Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, close to Rennes, and on the industrial park of Kergaradec, in Guipavas, close to Brest.

Postal operations in Brittany are carried out by some 7.550 post-office employees but trade unions are concerned that some 450 sorters would be made redundant by the changes, primarily in the old sorting offices of Saint-Brieuc, Vannes and Quimper, which unions say will just become ‘transit points’.

In an official statement, the French postal union said “There is inconsistency in the drawing up of these plans and this is effectively a downsizing of a public service with the removal of these sorting offices.” Union members are deciding what their next course of action should be.

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Deutsche Post sale of Postbank would require changing German constitution

Posted by | Apr 9, 2008 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG.’s possible sale of Deutsche Postbank AG. may face legal hurdles as it would require amending the constitution, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, citing a letter sent to German finance minister Peer Steinbrueck by trade union DPV.

According to a law in the German Basic Constitutional Law related to the privatisation of German mail services in the 1990s, civil servants working in companies succeeding former state-owned Deutsche Bundespost must remain employed there.

Some 35 percent of Postbank’s current staff are civil servants entitled to wages according to government pay scales and a pension.

‘It will (be) irreconcilable with Constitutional Law if Postbank is sold and becomes part of another bank’, unless the buyer sets up structures similar to government agencies to accommodate civil servants, the union said in the letter.

DPV demanded that plans to sell Postbank be dropped to preserve jobs and Postbank’s branches.

Germany’s Basic Constitutional Law has been changed 52 times since it came into effect in 1949, including the amendment that in 1994 set the legal basis for the privatisation of the Bundespost, which was split into what are today Deutsche Telekom AG.

Deutsche Post is currently examining all future options for Postbank, in which it holds 50 percent plus one share.

Several banks and financial services providers, including Deutsche Bank AG., Commerzbank AG. and insurance giant Allianz SE. have recently signaled an interest in acquiring Postbank.

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Azerbaijan and Turkey agreed to transfer money by e-way

Posted by | Apr 9, 2008 | |

The visit of Turkish post representatives to Azerbaijan has been completed, during which switching to e-system of money transfers was discussed.

Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies informed that the main topics for discussions were questions on switching to e-system of money transfers between Azerbaijan and Turkey instead of existing transfer system via fax and a possibility to join Azerpocht state enterprise to Eurogiro money transfer system.

“After held meetings Turkish party reported that in two months they would solve technical questions and submit information to Azerpocht administration,” it was reported.

During the visit the guests familiarized with reforms regarding communications in Azerbaijan and Azerpocht work principles.

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