Publication by Postcomm covering:
ownership/profitability, access to post offices, network strategy, provision in urban deprived & rural areas, opening, services, financial services, government services, other services
P:LibraryPostalPostComm Formal DocumentsPost Office_networks_abroad_exec_summary_2005_update.pdf
Presentation by James Campbell to the Associaton of Postal Commerce.
Contents: Overview of Markets
II.Universal Service
III.Postal Monopoly
IV.Regulation
V.Evolution of National Post Office
VI.Postal Reform Process
VII.Lessons, etc.
La Poste, the French post office, has decided to update its image with what it calls a more dynamic and contemporary logo. According to the organisation’s Marketing Director, Vincent Relave, the new logo better reflects La Poste’s position and ambitions in society. It has cost La Poste EUR 70,000, plus EUR 10m for an advertising campaign which begins at the end of the month.
Read MoreDutch mail, parcel and supply chain operator TNT is to shed most of its struggling French logistics unit three years after it was acquired.
The European Union cabotage system and the French 35-hour working week took most of the blame for the unit’s problems.
Around 60percent of TNT’s French logistics activities have been sold and the rest will be sold in the next month.
French haulage and logistics giant Norbert Dentressangle has snapped up the majority of TNT’s contract logistics activities and part of the transport activities of French subsidiary TNT Logistics Holdings SAS. Price details were not revealed.
Jose Driessen, a TNT spokeswoman, said the French market was ‘very specific’ in that, contrary to most European units, transport accounted for 60percent of its activities and logistics 40percent.
Read MoreThe creation of a state-owned postal bank in France moved a step closer yesterday despite a hostile reception from the country’s bigg-est listed banks, which filed a complaint to the European Commission claiming unfair competition.
La Banque Postale, a subsidiary of the national post office, is due to be created on January 1, after winning approval from the French regulator on Wednesday night. With 28m clients, Euros 4.3bn (Dollars 5bn) of revenues, and 17,000 retail outlets, it will increase fierce competition in French banking.
Within minutes of the regulator giving its green light, four of France’s biggest banks, Societe Generale, BNP Paribas, Banque Populaire and Credit Agricole, lodged an appeal to the Brussels competition authority, asking it to block the postal bank’s creation.
The Commission said yesterday it would announce before Christmas whether it would approve the creation of La Banque Postale or open an inquiry.
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