Main findings of the study are:
– EUR 700 million
– 8% annual growth
– Air courier service represents around 6 pct of total exports in Italy (high added value products)
– Key element for the success of Italian companies in the USA, China and India.
For the first time in the country, the movement of mail vehicles in Chennai will be monitored with the help of global positioning system.
Announcing this, Indira Krishnakumar, Principal Chief Postmaster-General, Tamil Nadu Circle, told reporters that at present, five vehicles were being monitored on a trial basis. If the arrangement was found successful, it would cover the other vehicles. The department was now operating 99 mail vehicles in the city.
The technology would come in handy for postal authorities as the vehicles had to cover 300 post offices all over Chennai. The GPS application would help the officials analyse the route pattern of the vehicles scientifically and, if necessary, corrective action would be taken. A majority of the vehicles would be covered by the year-end, she said.
A Chennai-based agency had been entrusted with the task of installing the GPS. The agency was working on a software program to suit the requirements of the department, senior officials said.
Noting that the rate for local mail through Speed Post now stood at Rs. 12, Ms. Indira Krishnakumar said that after the reduction of the tariff three months ago, the volume of traffic had increased by 30 per cent. A computerized passenger reservation system would be opened soon at the High Court post office and that at Sriperumpudur.
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Read MoreMatching steps with the growing competition from private courier firms, the Delhi Post is targeting corporate houses to generate more revenues by flaunting a well-established network across the country.
India Post’s Delhi Circle, responsible for postal services in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, has launched a special service, Mail Business Centers (MBC), for private companies, through which postal staff will not only collect the companies’ bulk mail, but will also place them in envelopes and label them with the recipients’ address.
This service was launched exclusively for business houses early this year at three centers in the national capital and now the postal department has major clients like Indiabulls, GE Capital, Thompson and all leading nationalized banks in its kitty.
Explaining the function of the three centers, Lal said they broadly function in ensuring quality and providing customized solutions and marketing impetus to mail business.
Apart from MBCs, the postal department has also launched e-Payment service, an innovative bill collection service, where people can pay their telephone and water bills from any part of the country.
Speaking on the Right to Information (RTI) Act, Lal said the post offices in Delhi are already accepting and dispatching the RTI applications pertaining to any department after charging a nominal fee.
Read MoreDHL is talking to the state-owned India Post about a strategic partnership with the Indian postal system.
According to The Economic Times of India any deal would give DHL access to India Post’s distribution network across the sub-continent, with nearly 15,000 post offices to give DHL a ‘last mile’ delivery capability outside its current urban footprint. The reciprocal benefit for India Post will be DHL’s superior technical expertise in handling logistics operations.
The final structure of the relationship, though, is yet to be finalised. “The idea is to identify some common synergies and work towards creating a relationship, which might take shape in the form of either a strategic partnership, a JV or a memorandum of understanding,” commented an official from the Department of Post (DoP).
According to the transport industry analysts TI, many of the major logistics integrators have their sights set on the fast growing Indian market, though its regulatory regime and relative immaturity presents risks. The Indian government is looking at regulating all courier and express operators and imposing a double-tax on them to fund the Universal Service Obligation (USO) of the Department of Posts. Such a move would be disastrous for the industry (as well as the Indian economy), says TI, though it thinks it unlikely in the light of international opposition that these plans will come to anything.
Read MoreDeutsche Post is looking at developing a strategic partnership with the Indian postal system.
Through this venture, both postal authorities are aiming at strengthening their global business operations. The entities are in early stages of discussions to ascertain specific segments, like last mile delivery, sharing infrastructural facility & technological innovations in which they could strike a partnership and initiate operations.
According to sources close to the development, with this strategic partnership, DHL will leverage India Post’s vast infrastructural facility, almost 150,00 post offices spread all over India, for their last mile delivery operations and increasing its market penetration. India Post, on the other hand, will be looking at benefiting from the superior technical expertise of DHL in handling logistics operations. The final structure of the relationship, though, is yet to be finalized.
DHL, along with its 81 pct stake in the Indian air express company Blue Dart, already has a huge footprint in India in the express logistics and freight forwarding segment, though, limited to semi-urban and urban areas.
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