The trade unions of the French post office yesterday rejected management’s offer of a 1 per cent pay rise (1.8 per cent for those at the bottom of the salary grading) for the organisation’s 101,000 contract staff. This is the first time in 11 years that La Poste’s unions have disputed a pay increase.
Read MoreA number of Americans abroad have been snared in a parcel delivery nightmare in Europe since October, when USPS quietly ditched direct delivery to 23 countries in Europe, and signed up Consignia as its single contact for the region. The switch was intended to reduce operating costs and times associated with multiple delivery points in Europe.
Read MoreAndrew Lester & Associates has just delivered the first of four sets of research findings on the UK parcels and packets market in 2002. The PacTrac Programme is a continuous market monitoring study that reports quarterly on parcel and packet shipments, carriers used and types of service levels required.
Read MoreCEP provider Chronopost, part of the French La-Poste Group, has introduced a new service, the “Chrono Premium International” product which guarantees that parcels and letters sent to major commercial centres in Europe arrive before 10:30 hrs the following day.
Currently, the new service is offered only in France, Denmark and the Netherlands. However, the CEP company intends to increase the network of “Chrono Premium International” to Germany, Belgium and Portugal in the near future.
The European Commission said it has made a formal request to France to ensure that the national regulator for the postal services sector is independent from the public postal operator La Poste.
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