Tag: France

La Poste Launches Service for Large Companies

Posted by | Sep 3, 2002 | |

La Poste, the French national postal services group, has launched a new service, Tem’Post, which guarantees delivery times for large companies, promising to repay between 30 per cent and 100 per cent of delivery charges in the event of delays. The service will involve the delivery of more than 8 billion objects a year and about 3bn euros in annual turnover, amounting to 30 per cent of the courier delivery market in France. La Poste is eager to retain the 3-4,000 business clients concerned, which will be increasingly important as the European courtier market is deregulated from the end of 2003.

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La Poste introduces registered email

Posted by | Aug 29, 2002 | |

From November this year, French companies can send registered emails using services of the French postal company La Poste. Consumers will be offered the service during the first half of 2003.
Initially, the new service will be a combination of paper mail and electronic features. The client sends his letter in electronic form to La Poste, which converts it to a paper version and delivers it as such to the recipient. Also the confirmation that the item was received is done via paper mail. The added value of the service is therefore that the client can send registered mail from home.
A second, entirely electronic, form will also be launched during 2003. Both forms will then be offered in parallel. The fully electronic version will include features similar to traditional registered mail such as electronic stamps and signatures.
Annually, 217m registered mail items are sent in France, 84 per cent of which are from businesses.

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La Poste Shuts Down B2B Data Subsidiary

Posted by | Aug 12, 2002 | |

French national postal service La Poste has closed down the activities of its subsidiary Postaxess, which specialises in the electronic management of B2B data. The group says Postaxess took longer than expected to get its very specialised activity off the ground. It says there will be no redundancies as a result of the closure.

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EU May Slow Liberalization of Postal Services

Posted by | Aug 9, 2002 | |

The European Union Commission is reexamining public service regulations that could water down efforts to open up to competition areas such as energy, postal and train services, the Financial Times reports. France is behind the push to slow liberalization, the paper says. But Germany and the U.K. want to push ahead. ‘Any move to exempt large parts of Europe’s service sector from normal competition and internal market rules would make a mockery of our efforts to build a single market,’ a senior Commission official told the paper.

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French La Poste and Swedish Posten AB companies will jointly develop the Polish courier company Masterlink Express

Posted by | Jul 28, 2002 | |

In line with the agreement signed in July, La Poste Group took over a 50-percent stake in Masterlink Express from Posten AB, its to-date sole shareholder. At the same time, Posten AB bought a license for Polish operations from Direct Parcel Distribution, one of the largest logistics groups in Europe. As a result, Masterlink will gain access to the chain covering 24 European countries.
Thanks to the change in the ownership structure, Masterlink will become part of Europe’s second-largest logistics group. As a member of the large multinational chain, Masterlink will be able to transfer know-how and improve its service line.

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