Tag: La Poste

ARCEP launches a public consultation on what information postal service users need and expect about universal service quality

Posted by | Jun 13, 2007 | |

One of ARCEP’s missions is to monitor proper provision of the universal postal service.

This entails ensuring that the service delivered by La Poste – the operator designated by law as the universal postal service provider – is of satisfactory quality, and that postal service users have all the information they need about it. Details of the various basic components of universal service quality are now available on La Poste’s website:

laposte-portail.cvf.fr/groupe_poste_nous_connaitre_service_universel_postal_16.html.

ARCEP is acting to maximize user benefit by launching a public consultation about any needs and expectations they may have in this area. The aim is to ascertain whether the information currently published by La Poste is satisfactory or whether further data should be provided.

ARCEP therefore wishes to collect suggestions from postal service users and the associations representing them about:

areas on which it might be expedient to publish information;
how often and in what form this information should be published.
Depending on the consultation findings, ARCEP will consider with La Poste the technical and economic practicability of providing fresh information on these topics so as to obtain a comprehensive set of indicators that usefully supplements the existing universal service road map.

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DPD Latvija posts EUR 3.4 mln in 2006 sales

Posted by | Jun 12, 2007 | |

DPD Latvija express delivery provider last year generated 2.374 million lats (EUR 3.41 mln) in net sales, which is a 66 percent rise from a year ago, and the company’s losses declined to 6,000 lats, shows the company’s annual report published at the Latvian Business Register.

According to the company, DPD Latvija last year served 1.079 million deliveries, up 61 percent year-on-year.

In 2006, DPD Latvija increased its market share in domestic deliveries from 36 percent to 44 percent, for a second consecutive year surpassing Latvijas Pasts postal company. DPD Latvija market share in international deliveries reached 31 percent.

DPD Latvija said that, according to the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission’s data, the company has retained the leading position in both domestic and international services.

The company said that last year it invested in development and quality as well as launched new services. However, the company’s performance was influenced by increase of fuel prices, the total inflation level in the country, the lack of workforce and the increasing wages.

DPD Latvija said that last year’s losses will be covered from next year’s profit.

This year the company plans to continue expansion and develop the domestic and international services as well as pay attention to the quality of services and customer service, said the report.

In 2006, sales by DPD Latvija’s parent company French La Poste Group reached 14.13 billion lats (EUR 20.1 b), which is 4 percent more than in 2005, and the company’s profit was 554.5 million lats, up 30 percent year-on-year.

DPD Latvija, founded in 1998, is a subsidiary of French La Poste Group express delivery provider GeoPost, offering DPD (Direct Parcel Distribution) express delivery services in Latvia, the Baltics and Europe.

DPD Latvija closed 2005 with 55,300 lats in the red on 1.43 million lats of turnover.

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EU delays Postal Service shakeup

Posted by | Jun 11, 2007 | |

Rather than stick to a 2009 deadline to open postal markets, the EU will likely O.K. different dates for different countries

The new emerging timetable looks likely to list different dates for different countries, with the latest deadlines mooted between 2012 and 2013, according to observers.

The EU started out on the road to opening up the 90 billion postal sector 15 years ago and the current proposal would finalise the process, meaning that national postal operators would lose their monopoly over the distribution of any type of mail, including letters weighing less than 50 grammes.

Britain and Sweden have already completed the liberalisation of their postal markets while Germany, the Netherlands and Finland are en route to doing so – with their ministers favouring the Brussels plan.

But in countries where a public company still has a full or partial monopoly to deliver these services – such as France’s La Poste or Italy’s Poste Italiane, the liberalisation move could lead to considerable job losses.

Some new member states such as Poland also expressed concerns that their postal services are not yet prepared for such a step forward.

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