Tag: France

La Poste in agreement over night shift pay dispute

Posted by | Jun 8, 2007 | |

France’s La Poste has come to a EUR 3 million agreement with unions over a night shift pay dispute that saw sorting centres disrupted earlier this year.

The national postal operator has hammered out a nationwide deal with five trade unions to provide EUR 2.2 million in extra pay for the night services (from midnight till 6 am) and EUR 800,000 in local supplements.

The French group has also begun training its post drivers to cut down CO2 emissions by 10,000 tonnes per year.

Ten trainers are travelling France to teach the 10,000 postmen and women how to cut down emissions by simple driving techniques, helped by electronic boxes that can now monitor economic petrol consumption in towns and rural areas

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Hermes Logistik – Mondial Relay partnership

Posted by | Jun 8, 2007 | |

German parcels company, Hermes Logistik, has further strengthened its growing European network by forming a partnership with France’s Mondial Relay for deliveries and collections in France, Germany and Austria.

Home delivery specialist Mondial says it will also be expanding its consumer service through Relai pick-up points in four new countries – Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain – and hopes to have opened over 20,000 such points in the seven countries (including France) by the end of this year.

The expansion will see Mondial’s parcels volumes grow by about 20% in two years from the 34 million handled in 2006, the company said in a release.

The network is designed to cash in on the Internet home delivery boom in major markets such as Germany, France and the UK. Parcelnet, the UK home delivery company owned by the Otto Group, announced two months ago that it also was expanding by buying the Redcats courier network in the UK.

Hermes, which grew by 11.5% in 2006, is moving into the Austrian market this summer. It now has 13,500 distribution points in Germany and a further 1,200 lined up for Austria.

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The accessibility of the postal retail network and the objectives of social cohesion and economic development

Posted by | Jun 5, 2007 | |

The goal of the presentation is to set the basis for the analysis of the impact of public services on commercial behaviors and economic activity in order to improve the efficiency of regional and national planning policies.

Some conclusions are:

– In French rural areas, postal services are more accessible than any other services (except Primary education).
– By coordinating public services, public authorities not only act more efficiently on economic development, but they also reduce the net cost of postal presence.
– Indeed, in return, the presence of commercial services combined with public services creates demand for postal services, and increases the takings for retail outlets… and therefore reduces the net cost of the constraint.
– This is a special characteristic of postal outlets, they could be considered as a public and a commercial service.
– The understanding of demand created by proximity and co-location is then undoubtedly an efficient way to reduce the net cost of the postal accessibility.
– This need of coordination pleads in favour of a ‘location choice’ policy for public services.

Presented in the 15th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, 31 May-2 June 2007, Semmering, Austria.

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La Poste chooses Orange Business Talk

Posted by | Jun 2, 2007 | |

Orange Business Services has deployed its Business Talk service for the French post office’s technical assistance staff. La Poste technicians and experts of the mail technical department now benefit from two-in-one service, with a single number for fixed and mobile, a unified voice message system and preferential rates for all business calls from a fixed or mobile handset. The post office technicians receive between 65 and 80 calls per day, often while outside the office, and were hard to contact before the change. Some 20 percent of technical support calls went unanswered immediately. Over 2,000 companies currently use Business Talk.

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Appointments – latest CEP managerial changes

Posted by | Jun 1, 2007 | |

A number of senior managerial changes have been announced by leading international express and parcel operators during May.

Jan Engels (47) has been appointed managing director marketing & sales at DHL Express Benelux as of June 1.

Ben Gordon has been named Express Logistics Operations and Implementations Manager for UAE.

Jean-Sébastien Leridon (32) has been named Commercial and Marketing director for DHL Global Mail in France. Thomas Sonnenschein (37) is the new secretary general of DHL Global Mail in France, responsible for administration and finances.

Jürgen Seifert has been named to the management board of TNT Express in Germany, with responsibility for Human Resources & General Services.

Andrew Watson has been appointed National Operations Manager in Bahrain with responsibility for country operations and the local road and air hubs.

Davide Rosetti has been named commercial director for Southern Europe, with responsibility for sales and commercial development.

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