Tag: Europe

The charity campaign carried out by Correos and UNICEF began on 1 October

Posted by | Nov 27, 2006 | |

The campaign to collect writing material for children in developing countries, which Correos has organised for the eighth successive year with UNICEF, will finish on 30 November. As a result, both organisations would like to remind all members of the public that there are still three days left in which to deposit pens, pencils, notebooks, pencil sharpeners and erasers (preferably new), in the 2,100 special post boxes placed by Correos in its offices throughout Spain.

50,000 information posters and 155,000 pamphlets have been distributed in the post offices, and posters and other information material has also been distributed to approximately 3,000 schools in areas where there is a branch of Correos to promote the campaign and request the help of all members of the public.

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Government considers proposals to modernize infrastructure of postal service

Posted by | Nov 27, 2006 | |

The following decisions were adopted on issues considered at a November 16, 2006 meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation:

The Government took note of a report of the Minister of Communications and Information Technology on the proposals to modernize the infrastructure of the postal service of the Russian Federation for the period of 2012.

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in conjunction with the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ministry of Finance and other interested federal executive bodies is to work out a draft plan of measures to update the infrastructure of the postal service of the Russian Federation during the period till 2012 with the indication of both the sources and amounts of their funding, giving special attention to:

· reconstruction, repair and enlargement of the network of post offices;

· setting up a network of automated sorting centers for the handling of mailing items;

· development of the system of electronic money transfers and clearing settlements on the basis of the post offices network, and

· renewal of the vehicle fleet.

The draft measures plan must be submitted to the Government before June 1, 2007.

The Government also directed the Communications and Information Technology and Finance Ministries in conjunction with the Bank of Russia to consider the possibility of the use by Russian lending organizations of the network of post offices to carry out electronic money transfers and clearing settlements.

Relevant proposals must be submitted to the Government before March 15, 2007, the Government said.

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The 13th interdepartmental committee meet to discuss the european postal directive

Posted by | Nov 27, 2006 | |

France plans to require “the maintenance of the sector reserved” if “the correct operation of the postal public utility” is not guaranteed by the negotiations in progress around the European postal directive, according to an official statement of Matignon.

The thirteenth interdepartmental committee in Europe joined together on Monday morning in Matignon to consider the postal proposal for a directive adopted by the European Commission on October 18. This relates to the opening of competition on January 1, 2009 of the “reserved” sector known as the letters of less than 50 grams.

“France is attached to the existence of a postal universal service of high quality and at an accessible price on the whole of the own territory”, the services of the Dominique de Villepin Prime Minister underlined in an official statement. Consequently, “it will aim at the time, negotiations to guarantee the correct operation of the postal public utility”.

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Deutsche Post to digitise corporate post

Posted by | Nov 27, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post AG is planning to offer to its corporate customers digitisation of their mail as of January 2007, the company said on November 27, 2006.

According to the announcement, Deutsche Post will open digitisation stations in Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover, Essen, Cologne, Stuttgart and Munich in January 2007. In December 2007, it will start operating such stations also in Nuremberg and Leipzig.

At the digitisation stations the corporate mail will be scanned and the data will be entered into the data processing system of the company. In most of the cases, the scans will be available in the data processing system on the morning of the day on which the mail is received at the stations, Deutsche Post (www.deutschepost.de) spokesman, Stefan Hess, said.

The company decided to launch the new service due to the higher requirements of its corporate customers, according to the project leader for Frankfurt, Peter Scheller.

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Deutsche Post to introduce part time work schemes for postmen

Posted by | Nov 27, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post AG will introduce part-time work schemes for almost 6,000 of its postmen and will aim to deliver all the mail to the recipients until 1300 hours local time, the group said on November 24, 2006.

Deutsche Post has more than 79,000 postmen who will be affected by the restructuring and will have to cope with reduced payment and changed place of work.

Unlike the parcel delivery and the sorting centres, where there are part-time and “mini-jobs”, up to now all postmen were on full-time schedule. Deutsche Post will continue to avoid “mini-jobs” in the future as well.

The restructuring concept will be introduced from the beginning of 2007 to the end of 2009. One of the priorities is to ensure mail delivery until 1300 hours each day in a bid to boost quality of service and assist its private clients.
As much as 90 pct of the mail for corporate clients and 80 pct of the mail for private clients is delivered by 1300 hours.

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