Tag: Europe

Azerbaijan to install information kiosks for jobseekers

Posted by | Sep 21, 2007 | |

Azerbaijan’s Labor and Social Protection Ministry will for the first time install computer –based information kiosks in public areas which will allow job seekers to have access to the database of vacant jobs.

The ministry officer for employment Shahbaz Khalafov said every employment centers will have one information kiosks outside and there will be a number of kiosks in public areas. The database will be updated about concerning the conditions of the local labor market.

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Royal Mail piling post high to reduce environmental impact

Posted by | Sep 20, 2007 | |

Royal Mail is raising the roof on its trailers to cut down on the environmental impact of its distribution network.

The business has taken delivery of 140 double-deck trailers – each with the capacity to hold 50 per cent more mail than conventional trailers.

The use of the trailers will reduce the road miles and carbon emissions of that part of Royal Mail’s operation by around 20 per cent.

Royal Mail has reduced the carbon emissions produced by its distribution network by 28 per cent in recent years and the purchase of the double-deck trailers – adding to 83 already in use – further demonstrates the business’s commitment to reducing the impact of its operations on the environment.

Each trailer will hold approximately 100,000 items of mail – equivalent to the post for the whole of Islington, Harlow or Carlisle for a day.

The new vehicles are 13.6 meters long and 4.44 meters high. They have been specifically designed by The Cartwright Group.

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DHL Express and Swiss Railways (SBB) relaunch their next-day parcel delivery service.

Posted by | Sep 20, 2007 | |

DHL Express and Swiss Railways (SBB) are extending their next-day parcel delivery service to same-day deliveries to key economic centers. Since this summer the two companies have offered a next-day domestic parcel delivery service called “A-Pac” where consumers can hand in their parcels at 71 DHL Servicepoints located at railway stations.

Under the DHL Rail Pac trial service launched on September 24, customers can now hand in letters and parcels at the Servicepoints in Zurich and Bern railway stations for same-day transportation to SBB stations in Basle, Biel, Lucerne and Geneva, with optional to-door final delivery by DHL. Items delivered to Lausanne, St. Gallen and Bellinzona have to be collected at the railway station. Pick-up customers are informed by phone when their items have arrived.

The pilot project will run for three months, and the two companies will then decide whether to extend it.

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Royal Mail condemns CWU strike decision

Posted by | Sep 20, 2007 | |

Royal Mail today condemned the decision by the Communications Workers Union to call further strikes. The decision comes after five weeks of discussions, under the auspices of the TUC and ACAS, to try to resolve the issues that lie behind the dispute. During those talks we offered both short and long term solutions, while keeping within the 2.5 pct available for pay this year but rather than accept a way forward the union tabled proposals that would cost the business GBP 2.4 billion over four years.

The company also criticized the CWU for failing during seven months of talks to produce any serious proposals that could help resolve the issues that lie between us and move the business forward.

Royal Mail criticized the union for misleading their members over the important issue of pensions. The union has wrongly said that we have taken “executive action” on pensions when they know the company has not yet started its official 60-day pension consultation, which will begin in the first week in October and during which we will be listening to the views of all our people and other stakeholders. Any other future operational changes recently announced by the company have been done in line with our existing agreements with the union and give the proper notice period before the change.

The call for further strikes does not change the urgent need for Royal Mail to modernize and become more flexible and efficient if it is to survive. For our people, flexibility would simply mean working the hours they are paid to work and to do what they are trained to do in a safe environment – something which has been taken for granted for many years in almost every company in the UK.

The union’s repeated refusal to contemplate the changes we must make if we are to be able to compete in an increasingly tough market simply shows that they are completely out of touch with UK industry and the reality of how competitive markets work.

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Business Post launches i-mail

Posted by | Sep 20, 2007 | |

Business Post’s UK Mail business has announced the New Year launch of its i-mail next day service in a partnership with Royal Mail. Business Post customers will be able to send an electronic copy of a letter or document to one of Royal Mail’s sort centres where it will be printed, sealed and transferred to Royal Mail for final-leg delivery.

Business Post says prices for the new service will start at less than the price of a first-class stamp, including stationery and printing. It claims the agreement makes UK Mail the first private organisation to provide an alternative next-day service to nationwide addresses. Customers will be able to send mail as late as 6pm to secure next-day delivery.

“We’ve been looking at it a little while,” says head of group marketing Nigel Proctor, who adds that the group has been in talks with Royal Mail for around eight months. In-house trials of the service will begin next month and software developments are in place with a third-party provider.

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