The GLS Group and Israel Post have announced that they are working together on a new initiative which enables business packages sent from customers in Israel to be delivered to destinations across Europe.
Read MoreIsrael Postal Company will be the first non-bank entity in Israel to issue Visa cards.
Read MorePalestine came one step closer last week to being able to participate in direct mail exchanges with all UPU member countries.
Read MoreThe Universal Postal Union announced that the Israeli and Palestinian postal authorities had been discussing solutions aimed at improving the operations and quality of the Palestinian Authority’s postal services, “with the aim of strengthening international postal cooperation”. In a joint declaration read out by UPU Director General Edouard Dayan to the member countries attending the 24th Universal Postal Congress in Geneva, both parties pledged to start facilitating direct exchanges between the Palestinian Authority and the UPU member countries as of now. Mail will transit via Amman, Jordan.
Dayan described this declaration as an “important development” in the UPU International Bureau’s efforts to help the Palestinian postal service become “better integrated into the world postal community”. He added that the announcement would help to prepare the ground for work to develop and improve the quality of the Palestinian postal service, and welcomed the “spirit of dialogue and total cooperation” shown by both parties. “The technical and operational solutions that are envisaged will enable the Palestinian postal services to launch direct mail exchanges, and will establish the rights and duties associated with terminal dues and the UPU Quality of Service Fund.” Terminal dues are the compensation countries receive for handling international mail arriving from other countries. The declaration also stated that the two parties had agreed to work on a bilateral basis, and within the framework of the relevant agreements reached between them, to ensure the “rapid, concrete implementation” of these direct exchanges. Dayan also called on the international postal community to lend its support to the Palestinian Authority’s postal services.
Read MoreThe Israel Postal Service petitioned the Tel Aviv Labor Court to instruct its striking workers to resume work. In an initial ruling, the court instructed the workers not to intensify their strike. The employees’ union announced that it will honor the verdict but will continue the present work stoppage in its current intensity.
The union announced that it will decide upon its further actions after the next Labor Court session on the matter, which is scheduled for Sunday, and will determine its moves based on what the court decides.
Regular and registered mail are not delivered anywhere outside Israel’s urban centers (except in the Gaza Belt); ownership transfers for cars are not being carried out; diplomatic mail is not being delivered and government offices including the Knesset are not getting mail.
Regular and registered mail are not delivered anywhere outside Israel’s urban centers; government offices do not receive mail; diplomatic mail is not being delivered.
The Postal Service’s clients in the “periphery” are hardest hit. Residents of the rural Regional Councils nationwide have not been getting mail for three weeks, and businesses in the periphery are also suffering great economic hardship.
The postal workers demand a governmental “security net” for them, as the post services undergo privatization. The “security net” should include a commitment not to fire any employees beyond the 450 workers which the union agreed would retire as part of the process in which the Postal Service becomes a registered company. In addition the “net” should make sure that none of the existing wage agreements is changed.
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