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Royal Mail delivers apprenticeships in Scotland

Posted by | Mar 12, 2007 | |

Royal Mail is set to deliver 30 Apprenticeships in Scotland following receipt of funding from Scottish Enterprise.

The Apprenticeship, developed with Skills for Logistics, provides candidates with a Scottish Vocational Qualification (SVQ) Level 2 in Mail Services and is specifically aimed at employees dealing with the collection, delivery and processing of mail.

Royal Mail aims to use the Apprenticeship to:
Attract, develop and retain high-calibre postmen and women, and managers of the future.
Improve Key Performance Indicators such as increasing the organisations retention rate and decreasing absenteeism.
Develop business culture by increasing business-minded competence at the front line and improving workforce diversity in terms of age, gender and ethnicity.
Enhance relationships with the aim of encouraging more people to consider a career in Royal Mail and by becoming an employer of choice.

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Postal deal saves public sector GBP 65.5m

Posted by | Mar 9, 2007 | |

The public sector has saved GBP 65.5 million in the past year through a postal deal with Royal Mail.
More than 2,200 public sector organisations have made savings through the arrangement, accounting for a total of GBP 431 million in business for Royal Mail in the current financial year. The National Audit Office ratified the figures earlier this week.

Government buying agency OGCbuying.solutions (OGCbs) initiated the deal, made last April, with support from the OGC. It was the first collaborative contract created with OGC involvement to deliver savings under the government’s procurement efficiency programme. It has since been followed by similar agreements for products such as departmental vehicles and IT hardware.

OGC began the project by conducting an assessment and feasibility study of the postal market. It then initiated the procurement process for a framework agreement in partnership with OGCbs, which manages the contract.

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Deutsche Post CEO denies reports company may stop delivering mail on Saturdays

Posted by | Mar 9, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG denied reports that the German postal service may stop delivering mail on Saturdays.

‘It’s absolutely clear that nothing will change about Saturday deliveries at Deutsche Post,’ chief executive Klaus Zumwinkel said in a statement today.

German news agencies today cited Zumwinkel as saying Deutsche Post may decide early next year to limit postal service to five days a week.

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Chirac gets deal to safeguard universal post services

Posted by | Mar 9, 2007 | |

The commission wants to open postal markets to unrestricted competition, forcing E.U. nations to withdraw state support for national postal services.
Proposals put forward by the commission would have forced France to unwind its unlimited guarantee for all liabilities held by La Poste, which makes the company a low-risk borrower. The country’s 17,000 post offices would also have had to share the market with global mail carriers like TNT and Deutsche Post AG (DPW.XE), as well as express carriers like United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) and FedEx Corp. (FDX).
France was one of the fiercest critics of the reforms, arguing the moves would crush La Poste and threaten services in small towns. Competitors would cherry pick the most profitable businesses, such as city deliveries, and neglect rural regions, it said.
The commission’s current proposal calls for prying opening the E.U. postal market by 2009.
While the E.U. heads of state and government Friday gave general backing to the commission’s plan, they shied away from endorsing the 2009 timeframe and kept open a wide window for France to keep protecting La Poste’s monopoly.
The leaders called for “further liberalization of the postal markets, while ensuring the financing of an efficient universal service.”

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Mistral Air expands fleet

Posted by | Mar 9, 2007 | |

Italian state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane’s airline Mistral Air will expand its fleet with three new Boeing 737-300 Quick Change aircraft and plans to start transporting passengers on charter flights.
The new aircraft are equipped to allow a quick change from cargo to passenger transport configuration, thanks to a system of rails. In 40 minutes, the fuselage’s cargo containers can be removed and replaced by passenger seats.
Thanks to the Quick Change system, Mistral Air can double its flight capacity, by exploiting the night time to transport cargo and the daytime and weekends to transport passengers on charter flights.
The Boeing 737-300 can transport up to 145 passengers to destinations such as Spain, the Canary Islands, Greece, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. The hubs of Mistral Air’s fleet will be based at Milan Malpensa, Rome Fiumicino and Palermo airports.
Mistral Air’s industrial plan targets for the next five years a total revenue of 200 mln euro (USD261.8 mln), with an increase by 150 mln euro (USD196.4 mln) from the current revenue.
The immediate target of the airline is to transport 210,000 passengers in 2007 and to achieve a total passenger traffic of 1.0 million in the next four years.

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