Tag: France

La Poste launches “Holiday Pack”

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

Due for the start of the holiday season in France, La Poste has launched new products for the summer.

The Holiday Pack includes:

• Post lockers from 1 day to 2 months, depending on the absence period.
• Pack of special discounts with 7 companies in different services e.g. renting a car, sport and traveling magazines etc.

The ‘Holiday Pack’ is available in all post offices with a unique cost of €18.

La Poste has also launched a new set of seasonal stamps which are available in a 10 stamp box. The stamps are also available on-line.

Postal cards are delivered through MMS – (a service which is part of the agreement with Orange SFR). The customer can send through MMS a picture from the mobile plus the message to be included and the address of the recipient. La Poste will print and delivery the post card physically.

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Ciblex France doubles its capacity in the East of France

Posted by | Jun 16, 2007 | |

Ciblex, opened its new office near Strasbourg in Illkirch Graffenstaden in the Bas Rhin on 15 June 2007.

This new venture strengthens the CIBLEX network and corresponds to its strategy of expanding its network with a view to consolidating its unique offer of next day delivery right across France early in the morning – before 8am, before 9am, before 10am and before 12 noon.

Ciblex has been present in the East of France for over 20 years and has built up very strong partner relationships with players such as DUTSCHER, VENTANA, Clinique de l’Instrument and AKE.

This new modernly designed office ensures the collection and delivery of parcels and documents in the 67 (Bas Rhin), 68 (Haut Rhin), 70 (Haute Saône) and 90 (Territoire de Belfort) departments. It carries out transit operations in the main North East European route and particularly to and from Germany. It also accommodates the sales team who are consolidating their position in these sectors in order to strengthen the client relationship based on regional proximity.

This office deals with up to 10,000 parcels per day throughout France and internationally. This doubled capacity will allow Ciblex to take on the steady growth of national and international volume while improving the time taken to process letters and parcels.

The site accommodates 1300 m2 of warehousing and 200 m2 of offices. 15 docks have been equipped to receive the light vehicles and lorries dedicated to transporting the goods. Since the proportion of light vehicles is greater than that of lorries, this gives CIBLEX the flexibility to deliver early in the morning while respecting the new 90 km/h regulation.

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La Poste Real Estate: New managing director

Posted by | Jun 13, 2007 | |

Philippe Lazare, Executive vice-president of La Poste, managing director of La Poste National Scale and Territorial development (“Grand Public et du Développement Territorial”) and chairman of La Poste Real Estate (“Poste Immo”), named Cristian Cleret as managing director of La Poste Real Estate (Poste Immo) from september 2007.

Poste Immo is a subsidiary company of La Poste group, dedicated to the real state business. Poste Immo was formed in 2005, when La Poste conceded 3,877 properties (buildings, offices and factorings) to this company. La Poste had registered till that moment a total of 4,577 properties.

In the practice, Post Immo allows La Poste to recuperate the VAT (Value Added Tax) of the real estate investments.

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ARCEP launches a public consultation on what information postal service users need and expect about universal service quality

Posted by | Jun 13, 2007 | |

One of ARCEP’s missions is to monitor proper provision of the universal postal service.

This entails ensuring that the service delivered by La Poste – the operator designated by law as the universal postal service provider – is of satisfactory quality, and that postal service users have all the information they need about it. Details of the various basic components of universal service quality are now available on La Poste’s website:

laposte-portail.cvf.fr/groupe_poste_nous_connaitre_service_universel_postal_16.html.

ARCEP is acting to maximize user benefit by launching a public consultation about any needs and expectations they may have in this area. The aim is to ascertain whether the information currently published by La Poste is satisfactory or whether further data should be provided.

ARCEP therefore wishes to collect suggestions from postal service users and the associations representing them about:

areas on which it might be expedient to publish information;
how often and in what form this information should be published.
Depending on the consultation findings, ARCEP will consider with La Poste the technical and economic practicability of providing fresh information on these topics so as to obtain a comprehensive set of indicators that usefully supplements the existing universal service road map.

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EU delays postal service shakeup

Posted by | Jun 13, 2007 | |

The result is more important than the speed of the liberalisation, the German EU presidency has said, signalling that some EU member states will get more time to open up the postal services market than the 2009 deadline proposed by the European Commission.

Berlin had aimed to wrap up the talks on the postal plan by July, when Portugal takes over the EU’s chair, but the meeting of transport and telecommunication ministers in Luxembourg on Thursday (7 June) highlighted severe opposition in around 10 countries, such as France and Poland.

The new emerging timetable looks likely to list different dates for different countries, with the latest deadlines mooted between 2012 and 2013, according to observers.

Speaking to journalists after the debate, the German minister for economy, Michael Glos, tried to play down the differences, pointing out “There is some tension but I get the impression that there’s awareness that it [liberalisation] will be in favour of competition and European consumers.”

But it was precisely the potential consequences of competition for both postal workers and consumers in remote areas that the opponents of the 2009 plan cited as their main reason for rejecting it.

Mr Glos maintained that no country wanted to “derail the process” but he suggested that the compromise plan to be worked out by the German presidency and taken up by Portugal will propose that countries can “proceed at different speed.”

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