Tag: Europe

Next-day delivery of mail improves by 4%

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

Next-day delivery of standard mail by An Post improved by 4 per cent in the first quarter of 2007, but still fell short of targets set by the regulator.

Results from the quarterly independent report on the quality of service performance of An Post from ComReg found that 78 per cent of single piece priority mail, or standard correspondence, was delivered within one working day throughout the State against a target of 94 per cent. The report revealed that 98 per cent of all mail was delivered within three working days, still short of the 99.5 per cent target set by ComReg.

The regulator said the report highlighted some variation in results between different mail flows.

“Of note once again is the poor performance of mail posted outside of Dublin for delivery to addresses in Dublin county – 72 per cent, in contrast with the level of service attributed to mail posted outside of Dublin for delivery within county of post- ing 81 per cent, or compared with the performance of mail posted in Dublin for local delivery of 80 per cent,” ComReg said.

ComReg also found that 79 per cent of mail posted in Dublin for nationwide delivery is reported as delivered the next working day, while 76 per cent of mail posted outside Dublin for delivery throughout the State is delivered within one working day of posting.

Mail posted outside of Dublin for local delivery recorded a success rate of 81 per cent, the report revealed.

An Post chief Donal Connell said the report showed a significant improvement in An Post’s operations.

“These results confirm the steady improvement we have seen in our internal quality measures, and it is all the more satisfying given the increased volume of mail we handled during this period,” he said.

“They also confirm the results issued recently by the International Postal Corporation (IPC) on international mail and also acknowledged by Royal Mail,” he said

A recent IPC study showed that in the first quarter of 2007 An Post achieved a 5 per cent improvement on last year’s rate of next-day delivery for incoming international mail, Mr Connell said.

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2007 The first Euromed Postal Convention

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

Euromed Postal will gather postal-sector players from countries across the European Union and around the southern and eastern Mediterranean rim.Its top priorities will include:

• improving postal-service operation and efficiency to support development and promote economic integration across the Euro-Med area,

• promoting the key role that postal services as a whole play in their countries,

• encouraging cooperation.

Euromed Postal will mark the launching of a platform for exchanging points of views in order to build a network of efficient operators.

The convention will be held on 9-10 July 2007 in Marseilles

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Slovenia: Postal Company Posts Best Results Ever

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

The boss of Posta Slovenije told the press on Friday the national postal company generated EUR 20.88 million in net profit in 2006, or some EUR 5.8 million more than a year before. Operating revenues increased nearly 10 per cent to EUR 229.78 million.

The results have never been better, Ales Hauc told the press in Ljubljana, upbeat about the future of the company that employed 6,723 people at the end of 2006.

The general manager said the figures were particularly good considering that 75 per cent of revenues were generated in sectors that were not under state control. According to him, Posta Slovenije has long ceased to be a monopoly.

Good operating results are attributable to 12-per-cent growth in services, productivity, efficient cost management and streamlined operations. The bulk of revenues was made in standard mail services (42 per cent), direct mail delivery (16 per cent) and cash transactions (23 per cent), followed by retail (6 per cent) and parcel delivery (8 per cent).

The projection for this year is an 8-per-cent increase in revenues and 5-per-cent growth in expenditures and a drop in profit as growth is expected to slow down compared to trends over the past few years.

According to Hauc, the postal company has always been conservative in its operating plans. Investment totalled EUR 12.8 million last year, and was spent mainly on new buildings and furnishings, means of transport, capital investments and IT. This year the company is to invest a total of EUR 37.69 million.

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Postal firm DX confident that doubling its size is in the bag

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

DX, the postal business bought last year by private equity firm Candover Partners, is confident it can double in size over the next few years as deregulation of the postal industry gathers pace.

Speaking on a visit to Edinburgh to open the firm’s newly refurbished postal facility in Rutland Square, chief executive James Greenbury admitted that DX was “still relatively small” compared to Royal Mail.

DX, which has more than 27,000 private and public sector customers, stands to benefit if Royal Mail staff press ahead with the first national postal strike for 11 years.

Earlier this month, some 69,000 members of the Communication Workers Union – 77 per cent of those voting – backed a strike over pay and cost efficiency plans.

As well as legal practices, DX services surveyors, accountants, estate agents and other professional services firms. Its new Rutland Square facility can count all of the major Scottish law firms among its users.

Although DX is focused primarily on next-day business mail services, its clients have access to a special delivery product that covers both business and residential addresses.

Candover paid almost GBP 350m last July to secure DX. The venture capital heavyweight also bought Secure Mail Services, which delivers cheque books and credit cards to consumers, for an undisclosed sum.

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TNT Post wins two year contract with Intergamma

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

TNT NV’s TNT Post has won a two year contract from Intergamma BV to distribute flyers for Intergamma’s home improvement chains the company said.

Financial details were not disclosed.

TNT said the contract was an extension of past agreements and involves the regular distribution of door-to-door flyers from the Gamma and Karwei store chains with a combined circulation of 10.3 mln copies.

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