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Italy TNT Post generates 147 mln euro sales 2006

Posted by | Jan 26, 2007 | |

Italian private mail operator TNT Post, a subsidiary of Dutch mail and express deliveries group TNT NV, generated sales for 147 mln euro (USD189.9 mln) in 2006, up by 10.5 pct year-on-year.

TNT Post will target its sales to rise by over 20 pct year-on-year in 2007. The company renewed its cooperation agreement with Italian state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane.

TNT Post plans to focus its activity on direct marketing postal services and business postal services. The company plans to make new acquisitions in 2007.

[Editor’s note: TNT Post has acquired mail operator TWM Italia, specialised in distributing door-to-door or unaddressed advertising material, ANSA reported on May 17, 2006. Even before TWM Italia’s acquisition, TNT Post was one of the leading door-to-door distribution companies in Italy. The acquisition will allow TNT Post to double its share of the Italian market for door-to-door distribution which had an estimated value of some 250 mln euro (USD323 mln) for 2005.]

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Correos launches personalised 30 cent stamps for one euro

Posted by | Jan 26, 2007 | |

Spain’s online post office – www.correos.es – has just launched a new service which so far has received a great response: more than 600 orders in the first 20 days, mainly from small businesses. The new product, known as “Tu sello” (Your Stamp), allows both companies and private individuals to obtain their own personalised stamps, with images they provide themselves.

Nevertheless, not all photographs are valid. As the website explains they must not “show people, or violate morality, good habits or public order”; the photographs must respect “fundamental rights and public liberties, and not extol crime or discriminate by sex, race or religion”. Neither is illegal advertising allowed or images that breach copyright regulations.

The post office has established a minimum order of 200 stamps and a maximum of 3,000, and each stamp costs one euro. This includes the costs of postage.

The ordering process can be done entirely by internet. The first thing customers have to do is register on the Correos website; then go into the “Tu sello” section, upload the photograph to be used (in .jpg format and no bigger than 500 Kb) and select the field to declare that the user has the rights to the image. Then the user will be able to preview the stamp, edit the image and add a title or date. Finally payment can be made using a credit card, ePagado or PayPal. Then Correos will verify that the image complies with regulations.

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TNT plans UK expansion

Posted by | Jan 25, 2007 | |

TNT NV said it is considering plans to intensify its challenge to the UK”s state-owned postal group Royal Mail as it declined to comment on speculation that it is planning a bid for Deutsche Post AG.

Chief Executive Peter Bakker said TNT is conducting pilot schemes in a number of UK cities to assess the financial viability of setting up “end-to-end” mail networks, which would enable TNT to deliver mail as well as collect and sort it.
Bakker told AFX News in an interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos that TNT is conducting experiments in Manchester and Glasgow to assess whether it can generate sufficient mail volumes to make end-to-end networks viable.
Meanwhile, the company refused to comment on speculation that it is interested in German logistics giant Deutsche Post AG.

Shares in the latter outperformed the market on Jan 18 amid the rumours, although one Frankfurt-based trader said he thinks the rumours are unrealistic because TNT is much smaller than Deutsche Post.
Bakker said, meanwhile, that TNT is undertaking a number of initiatives to try to reduce carbon emissions from its planes and trucks.

It is experimenting with biofuel-powered lorries in Amsterdam and with zero-emission electric trucks in the UK.

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