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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.
Teamsters at the Miami International Airport (MIA) DHL gateway facility overwhelmingly approved a four-year contract yesterday, gaining wage increases, a pension plan and job security language.
By ratifying the contract, the 130 workers at MIA became the third DHL gateway location to be protected by a Teamster agreement this year. Miami gateway workers are joining 300 DHL Teamsters at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and 150 gateway workers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Read MoreDutch postal services group TNT is to attack German rival Deutsche Post on the German market. With Europost, 71 per cent of which is owned by TNT and 29 per cent by German package delivery company Hermes, TNT plans to become the second-largest provider of letter deliveries on the German market behind Deutsche Post. TNT plans to bring together its regional partners in Germany into a Europost franchise system. Of around 160 current partners, TNT expects 120 to participate. Partners have until the end of the year to sign up to the franchise. TNT hopes that the new letter delivery system will reach 95 per cent of German households by 2006 and is aiming to achieve market share of 10 per cent by 2007/2008.
Read MoreTNT’s Europost unit is planning to set up its own unified mail delivery system in Germany to close in on local rival Deutsche Post AG, Handelsblatt newspaper said, citing Europost head Mario Frusch. As part of the plans, Europost hopes to unite 120 of its 160 regional mail delivery partners in Germany under a single Europost franchise structure. ‘We want to strengthen our position as the number two behind Deutsche Post,’ Frusch told the newspaper.
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