Tag: Italy

The 2004 balance sheet of the Italian state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane S. p. A. is forecast to be positive, the company CEO Massimo Sarmi said on August 23, 2004 at a meeting in Rimini, central Italy.

Poste Italiane balance sheets for 2002 and 2003 were also positive, Sarmi said. Currently the company carries out between 15 million and 16 million electronic transactions daily. After signing an agreement with U. S. software developer Microsoft, Poste Italiane will improve and modernise its offices in the course of one year.

Poste Italiane economic plan envisages the investment of 800 mln euro (USD983. 7 mln) annually for technical innovations. Currently the company employs 153, 000.

The CEO of Poste Italiane s.p.a, Massimo Sarni speaking in Rimini during a debate at Rimini’s meeting of Comunione and Liberazione movement said that after 2002 and 2003 the balance of the Italian mail service would be positive also in 2004. According to Sarmi “with 15 or 16 million of electronic transactions per day and after the deal with Microsoft the Italian mail service is bettering the level of modernity of its structures and offices. The company would be the first information network of Italy very soon. The Italian mail services spends 800 million euro per year in resources for ameliorating its offices, customer services and call centres. The Italian mail service has 153,000 employees and is training them. There are 3,000,000 days of training per year with the goal to extend them to the 40,000 postmen of the company.

Employees of post offices in the southern Italian province of Cagliari will go on strike from August 27 to September 25, 2004.

The staff at the post offices will do no overtime or additional duties and will be particularly strict to close the offices on the spot at the end of the officially announced working hours. Cagliari post officers are protesting against the insufficient post office staff, the low overtime payments and the high number of accumulated holidays, 60 days on average for each employee.

The post officers who will go on strike are members of Italian sector trade unions Slc Cgil, Slp Cisl, Uil Post, Sailp Failp and Rsu.