Tag: Europe

Poste Italiane – Best Corporate IP Network of the Year

Posted by | Mar 7, 2007 | |

The project is part of a transition project Poste Italiane is currently involved with. They are changing the services from the standard core business to a new entity – one that is able to secure revenue from financial services as well as merchandise.

As one of the oldest consolidated services in the world Poste recognise that to keep pace with customers ever more sophisticated needs, Post Offices must supply advanced services covering financial, merchandise and email. At the same time they expect to be more efficient and productive.

The ICT Plus project resulted from Poste making a decision to provide connectivity services from three main sites in Rome, Milan and Bari to 14000 branches. Traffic is now aggregated on 5 POP interconnected by FO trunks. These POS host the data-centre.

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Logistics World Alliance takes off 16 March 2007

Posted by | Mar 7, 2007 | |

Logistics World Alliance, the alternative pan-European Contract Logistics provider, brings Geis Group and Log Service Europe into its membership, providing logistics services in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe and Italy respectively. Bibby Distribution, a founding member of Logistics World Alliance, thus strengthens its presence in Europe.

More than 3,000 employees work for the Geis group generating a turnover in excess of half a billion Euros. The company offers its national and international clients an entire range of logistics services – from domestic and pan-European road transportation to the development of international air and sea freight through to contract logistic services. Siemens, Avaya, Puma and Semikron are among its clients.

With its new Italian partner, Logistics World Alliance presents a logistics service provider that shares both capability and culture with the existing members. Log Service Europe manages a national business network from its head office in Bressana Milan. Up to one thousand employees offer clients the entire range of logistic services from procurement to warehousing and distribution via a national network and international road freight.

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Russett back as MD in Palletline network

Posted by | Mar 7, 2007 | |

Bob Russett is back in the industry full-time, taking 100% control of a Birmingham freight firm and buying a warehouse in Telford.

Russett bought out the other three founder shareholders of Palletline Distribution, the Palletline Network member based at the West Midlands hub. Selling their shares are; Ken Hackling, who has his own transport business; and Colin Sturgess and John Watt, who had their own transport firms but have retired from the industry.

Russett becomes full-time managing director of Palletline Distribution, which he says has offered very limited storage hitherto. There is room to expand at Telford, he adds.

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Direct marketers get Royal Mail 'boost'

Posted by | Mar 6, 2007 | |

It has been suggested that the new pricing plans unveiled by Royal Mail could have a significant benefit for the direct marketing sector.

According to economist Ian Senior, the direct marketing industry could gain from the proposed changes, which would see business post charges reduced while domestic postal charges would be increased.

He explained to the Telegraph that the changes will mean companies will be able to afford more mail shots.

However, another important way for a firm to increase its value for money from a direct marketing campaign is to employ data cleansing processes so that it can reduce any losses caused by dirty data.

By carrying out data cleansing processes, a firm can get rid of any dirty data from its systems, thereby providing a high standard of data quality and ensuring that mail shots are not sent to old or incorrect addresses.

As Mr Senior himself pointed out when referring to the potential postal changes, “it is all about keeping costs down”, and the same benefits can be found in a data cleansing exercise.

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Norwegian postal service ranks poorly

Posted by | Mar 6, 2007 | |

A recent survey of European postal services showed that only 82.4 percent of first-class, so-called “A” letters mailed in Norway were delivered on time last year. The Norwegian postal service is supposed to deliver domestic first-class mail overnight.

Most other European postal services could report that more than 90 percent of first-class mail arrived on time.

Only Latvia and Germany had slower postal service than Norway. Twenty other countries had faster service.

Norwegian postal delivery has also gotten slower in recent years. Between 2001 and 2005, as much as 87 percent of A-post was delivered overnight.

A spokesman for Posten Norge admitted service wasn’t good enough in Norway. He claimed, though, that Norway’s large land area, isolated settlements and geography made mail delivery more difficult in Norway than elsewhere.

Postal rates just went up again, meanwhile. It now costs NOK 7 (about USD 1.10) to mail a domestic letter in Norway, nearly three times what it costs in, for example, the US.

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