Turnover up but profits down for Islandpostur
Despite a year on year 3.4% rise in turnover to Eur 50.8m, Icelands Islandpostur recorded a Eur 2.1m operating loss in the first quarter of 2002.
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IPC UNEX Results 2001 – Europe’s letter mail maintains a high-quality delivery
International Post Corporation (IPC) members maintained their high-quality delivery performance for international letters last year, despite disruptions to air transport and security alerts following the events of September 11.
During 2001, an average of 92 per cent of European air mail letters reached their final destination within three days of posting. According to quality of service monitoring results just released by IPC’s UNEX system, more Postal operators are now meeting EU targets on mail streams where few, or no direct transport links are available. During 2001, over three-quarters of the 306 country-to-country streams monitored by UNEX were achieving at least 85 per cent
of deliveries within three days, compared with just one-third in 1994 when monitoring began, and one half in 1997.
PostEurop Annual Review 2000
PostEurop Annual Review 2000
Read MoreIceland tries unattended access system
Iceland has been running trials with the Delivery Point unattended home delivery system from Home Delivery Access. According to home shopping operations manager Carl Allan: “We are always exploring the use of new technologies in offering an enhanced service to home shopping customers.”
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