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Deutsche Post summer campaign

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post will launch a major TV and print advertising campaign this summer to promote its core mail delivery services. The move comes as rivals gear up to compete in a fully-liberalised market from next January.

Under the slogan „Post for Germany“, Deutsche Post will highlight its delivery staff, its delivery quality and the logistics system behind the domestic mail service.

The print adverts will run in daily and weekly newspapers and consumer magazines. There will also be special supplements in publications and about 40 million direct mailings to households and businesses.

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Poste Italiane: Minister Gentiloni establishes new minimum working standards of post offices in summer

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

The Minister for Communications, Paolo Gentiloni, showed the ministerial decree endorsed by him, establishing new minimum working criteria post offices will be obliged to respect in summer.
This decree states criteria avoiding to Poste Italiane to work short time or, even, not to work at all because of the total closure of its post offices. For this current summer they will recourse to provisional criteria.
Poste Italiane ever made recourse to daily or hourly reductions in working timetable either to cope with rotating shifts due to staff holidays or for a reduction in daily work at post offices desks. This produced great worry in people of those municipalities concerned in closure, mayors and prefects of the involved area. So much so that, last summer many mayors of little municipalities ( sometimes with a little post office ), while expressing the disconfort due to these reductions, demanded, as everybody’s concern, more guarantees concerning the execution of tasks.
In consideration of this, the Ministry of Communications, in joined agreement with Poste Italiane, issued a 2007 plan to better guarantee users in defining minimum working standards to vouch for the service mostly in municipalities with 5000 people or less or, at any case, to avoid every modification in timetable under 18 hours a week.
The ministerial decree introduces the summer Opening Plan to be transmitted to the Ministry of Communications within 30 April of every year for the timespan 15 June – 15 September. If the Plan, submitted to the Ministry of Communications exam, is deemed compatible with standards defined in art. 12, it will be forwarded to both CNCU (National Council of Consumers and Users) and ANCI (National Association Italian Municipalities) in order to receive relevant, non binding opinions.

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DHL, PPL open reloading centre in Plzen

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

DHL opened a Kc150 million reloading centre in Plzen, western Bohemia today, Jiri Stojar, DHL Express chief executive for the Czech Republic, told CTK.

“We will create a backbone network of ten main distribution terminals worth almost Kc1 billion in the Czech Republic in three years,” he added.

DHL leased a hall on an area of 21,000 square metres for 15 years in the CTPark Borska pole industrial park together with PPL CZ. Both companies are controlled by Deutsche Post.

The Plzen facility employs more than 100 staff. “We have enough capacity for a growth which reaches 35 percent year-on-year,” said PPL chief executive Jiri Hondl.

DHL covers 46 percent of the express air transport market as the country’s number one and, together with PPL, 26 percent of the parcel service, trailing the Czech Post Office (Ceska posta).

DHL has 285,000 staff in 220 countries and territories of the world. In the Czech Republic, it employs 3,700 staff, while PPL CZ has 480 staff and 600 partners in the country

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Postal strategy: Universal Postal Union holds its first round table

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

The first Universal Postal Union (UPU) regional strategy round table was held in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, within the framework of the “Pochtovaya Troika” strategic forum. This round table, which was organized in cooperation with the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communication (RCC), brought together the 12 RCC member countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. This regional consultation process, the first of its kind in the UPU’s history, was opened by UPU Director General Edouard DAYAN, who said: “The regional reality, in its political and economic dimensions, is here to stay and must be incorporated into our strategy”.

This was the first in a series of seven round tables to be held in each region in conjunction with meetings of the UPU Restricted Unions, a series which will culminate with a world round table in China (People’s Rep.) in December 2007. The purpose of these round tables is to take stock of implementation in the regions of the Bucharest World Postal Strategy (2005–2008), to guide the drawing up of the future UPU strategy, which will be adopted by the 2008 Nairobi Congress, and to ensure that the future strategy has a truly regional dimension.

Before it is adopted by member countries at the 2008 Nairobi Congress, the UPU roadmap for the next four-year period, which will also take account of regional particularities, will be presented at the joint session of the Postal Operations Council and the Council of Administration in February 2008.

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