Tag: La Poste

Belgian Post reports high quality in delivery of mail

Posted by | Apr 10, 2008 | |

With a quality rating of 96 percent, La Poste exceeds the target set by the management contract signed with the Belgian State. At the press conference he gave on April 10 about the letter, Bernard Delvaux, a member of the Executive Committee of The Post, congratulated all the staff for the quality index reached. The quality index is the weighted average quality of the distribution of letters and items of Belgium and letters from abroad in Day + 1, as well as letters and parcels sent from Belgium in Day + 2. As part of the management contract signed with the state, the Post Office is committed to achieving a quality rating of 95 pct for all categories. The real quality index for the period between January and March 2008 now stands at 96 pct and exceeds the standard imposed by the management contract.

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French Post Office makes Ebay despatches simpler

Posted by | Apr 9, 2008 | |

French postal operator ‘La Poste’ has launched a new service which allows French Ebay users to sort all their parcel needs online, through Ebay itself.

With only a few clicks, users can decide on how the item should be delivered, the weight, destination and whether the item is to be insured, before paying via PayPal – the method of payment preferred on eBay.fr.

The form is then printed on a simple A4 sheet of which a part will attached to the parcel, the other stamped by the counter clerk in post office and used as proof of sending. Once the parcel is prepared, the shipper merely has to leave it with a local post office – where many fast counters dedicated to parcels have been available in France since 2006.

The brand new service is free to eBay.fr users, costs no more than normal parcel rates but saves sellers time in preparing parcels ready for despatch. The parcels can also be tracked online.

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French postal workers angry about modernisation plans

Posted by | Apr 9, 2008 | |

With increasing use of the Internet and the SMS, the French are writing less and less. The French postal oprator, La Poste, recorded a fall of 1 pct in mail volume in 2007. However, French unions have reacted angrily to plans by La Poste to introduce bigger sorting centres to replace smaller ones which could see hundreds of redundancies.

Raymond Redding, Director General of La Poste emphasised the need to modernise saying: “We are investing some 81 million euros in new mail equipment in Brittany to ensure the business remains profitable.”

New modernised sorting operations are to be set up in Brittany, as well as at Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, close to Rennes, and on the industrial park of Kergaradec, in Guipavas, close to Brest.

Postal operations in Brittany are carried out by some 7.550 post-office employees but trade unions are concerned that some 450 sorters would be made redundant by the changes, primarily in the old sorting offices of Saint-Brieuc, Vannes and Quimper, which unions say will just become ‘transit points’.

In an official statement, the French postal union said “There is inconsistency in the drawing up of these plans and this is effectively a downsizing of a public service with the removal of these sorting offices.” Union members are deciding what their next course of action should be.

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Chronopost unveils new three-year plan and opens EUR 53m hub

Posted by | Apr 9, 2008 | |

Chronopost has announced a three-year plan named “Essentiel 2010” at the occasion of the opening of its new EUR 53 million, 13,000 sqm national hub at Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris.

The new 2008-2010 plan, presented by Christian Emery, president of Chronopost, is designed to give the company a new strategic orientation while reinforcing its position within the industry as well as internationally. As part of the plan the company is aiming for annual growth of at least 6pct, while the market is expected to grow at a lower rate. The company’s profitability is expected to be in line with the market.

Chronopost aims to become France’s leading provider of morning express delivery services. The company is planning to refocus its activities on the domestic market, concentrating on morning deliveries and its online service. Since February 2008 the company has provided next-day delivery before 13:00 within France, including packaging and transportation. This product will be extended to international destinations by end 2008.

In order to expand its market share, Chronopost will strengthen its activities in certain industrial sectors, such as new technology and health, while it also intends to expand abroad, where it already achieves 25pct of its turnover. The company is going to sign the ADEME charter for CO2 emissions and continue the environmental ISO 14001 certification program. All Chronopost drivers will be trained for eco-friendly driving by 2009. The company also said it will focus on staff training and take on 500 additional workers by 2010.

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Successful start to DPD's Parcel-Shop offensive (GER)

Posted by | Apr 8, 2008 | |

DPD is continuing the successful Parcel-Shop offensive which it began last year. There are now no less than 3,000 Parcel-Shops in Germany, with a further 1,500 expected to follow by the end of the year. Small companies and private shippers, in particular, benefit from the products and service options available from the DPD Parcel-Shops.

“At the start of last year there were 472 DPD Parcel-Shops in Germany. By the end of the year this number had risen to almost 2,500,” states Arnold Schroven, Chief Executive Officer of DPD GmbH & Co. KG. The CEO is pleased because this represents a five-fold increase in shop numbers within a single year. “This success confirms our policy of continuing our offensive strategy on this segment of the market this year, too. We intend to provide our customers with a country-wide network of 4,500 Parcel-Shops by the end of 2008.”

DPD Parcel-Shops operate on the shop-in-shop principle and are located across various branches of the retail sector, including for example stationery shops, tanning studios and consumer electronics shops. The focus is always on the interests of the customer, which means the retail outlets are those frequented regularly by consumers and where handing in or collecting a parcel can be conveniently combined with other activities. Prestigious retailing multiples such as Metro and the Staples office-supply chain are partners to DPD Parcel-Shops.

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