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Correos to modernise international postal centre in Barajas airport

Posted by | Aug 6, 2007 | |

Correos will install an automatic sorting system for their international parcel centre in Baraja airport. The acquisition of this equipment will speed the management of the delivery and will improve the registration of the track information. The new equipment will also offer more value added services and bettering quality control to the clients of international delivery. The total investment is EUR 1.2 million.

The winner of the public tender was Vanderlande Industries Espana S.A. The company will acquire the machines and infrastructure on behalf of Correos de Espana and re-launch the Barajas international post centre in 6 months time. The company will be responsible for maintenance of the sort service for next
5 years. Four other companies sent economic proposals for the Correos public tender.

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Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), Senate postal subcommittee discuss service

Posted by | Aug 6, 2007 | |

The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) chairman Dan G. Blair stressed the need for service standards and performance measures that are transparent and accountable when he appeared in front of the Senate postal subcommittee August 2.

Blair talked about the steps PRC is taking to implement modern service standards as required by Title III of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

The PRC filed two advanced orders on its site regarding its modern service standards and the process to implement it, according to Nanci Langley, d irector of public affairs and government relations at the PRC.

In a joint statement to the PRC, the Alliance of Non-Profit Mailers and the Magazine Publishers of America said: “When the Postal Service makes structural changes to a rate design and thus has no billing determinant data that matches the altered rate design, the volume weights used for the new, altered rate structure should be based on a mail characteristics study for the same time period as the billing determinant data used to calculate average revenue per piece under the existing rates.”

The two organizations advocate pricing flexibility for competitive products.

The act requires the Postal Service to consult with the PRC on development of regulations establishing service standards due by December, as well as report to Congress on their implementation, due by June 2008.

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Postwatch: Postal strike hurting customers – resolution needed urgently

Posted by | Aug 6, 2007 | |

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has announced further strikes, to take place in the period to 17th August. Postal customers – and the postal industry – have suffered from industrial action since 29th June.

Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for postal services, urges Royal Mail and the CWU to resolve the dispute and avert further disruption.

Post boxes and, for the most part, post offices are still open, but post is nonetheless being delayed. The longer industrial action continues, the worse problems will become. Customers who cannot use alternatives to mail are being inconvenienced.

Some businesses are moving to using other forms of communication, and more will do likewise if strikes persist. Mail volumes are already decreasing year-on-year: strikes will only worsen problems for the UK postal service.

Postwatch advises customers to be aware of the strikes, consider what postal disruption will mean to them, and then act to minimize inconvenience. That might mean using other communication methods.

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Post offices accused of second blackmail

Posted by | Aug 5, 2007 | |

Post office bosses were last night accused of a second blackmail after thousands of staff has been offered GBP 1,000 bonuses to keep quiet about branch mergers.

It comes just days after the Daily Mail revealed that Post Office bosses considered spying on sub-postmasters to ensure they were cooperating with their closure programme.

Thousands of post-office staff have been offered GBP 1,000 bonuses to keep quiet about branch mergers

Alan Cook, the Post Office’s managing director, has sent a letter to all staff who work for ‘crown’ – or main – post offices threatening to withdraw the bonus if they oppose the mergers.

Mr Cook’s letter is set to provoke fury among staff as it comes amid reports that he is in line for a GBP 1 million bonus.

The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) has warned that workers who switch over to WH Smith are facing pay cuts – as the company pays just over the minimum wage of GBP 5.35-an-hour – and reduced pension provisions.

Many employees were told in July whether theirs was one of the 2,500 branches to close – but were warned not to update customers for another three months.

From January next year, Royal Mail is to start closing 2,500 of the country’s 14,300 post offices in a move which it says is essential to ensure the long-term prospects of government-owned company.

The Royal Mail first announced the WH Smith plans last year.

Under the proposals, around 85 crown post offices will be replaced with a post office counter at their nearest branch of the retailer.

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