Tag: La Poste

La Poste in agreement over night shift pay dispute

Posted by | Jun 8, 2007 | |

France’s La Poste has come to a EUR 3 million agreement with unions over a night shift pay dispute that saw sorting centres disrupted earlier this year.

The national postal operator has hammered out a nationwide deal with five trade unions to provide EUR 2.2 million in extra pay for the night services (from midnight till 6 am) and EUR 800,000 in local supplements.

The French group has also begun training its post drivers to cut down CO2 emissions by 10,000 tonnes per year.

Ten trainers are travelling France to teach the 10,000 postmen and women how to cut down emissions by simple driving techniques, helped by electronic boxes that can now monitor economic petrol consumption in towns and rural areas

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Italian Express Delivery Firm Bartolini Launches Services in Bulgaria, Romania, Greece

Posted by | Jun 7, 2007 | |

Italian express delivery company Bartolini has launched services in EU newcomers Bulgaria and Romania, as well as Greece, the company said on Thursday.

The company will offer the services through its partner, German sector firm Deutscher Paket Dienst (DPD), Bartolini said in a statement.

Bartolini, one of the main express delivery firms in Italy, offers services to a total of 25 countries in Europe. Outside Italy, the company works with DPD and its partners from EuroExpress.

Bulgaria and Romania, which joined the European Union in January, have attracted large numbers of foreign investors in various sectors of their economies over the past few years. Service companies have followed investors in finance, real estate and tourism, telecommunications and industry, to take advantage of the business opportunities offered by the EU accession.

Some of the key express delivery companies in Bulgaria and Romania are international firms TNT, DHL and UPS. There are strong local players in Romania – Cargus, Fan Courier and Curiero.

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The accessibility of the postal retail network and the objectives of social cohesion and economic development

Posted by | Jun 5, 2007 | |

The goal of the presentation is to set the basis for the analysis of the impact of public services on commercial behaviors and economic activity in order to improve the efficiency of regional and national planning policies.

Some conclusions are:

– In French rural areas, postal services are more accessible than any other services (except Primary education).
– By coordinating public services, public authorities not only act more efficiently on economic development, but they also reduce the net cost of postal presence.
– Indeed, in return, the presence of commercial services combined with public services creates demand for postal services, and increases the takings for retail outlets… and therefore reduces the net cost of the constraint.
– This is a special characteristic of postal outlets, they could be considered as a public and a commercial service.
– The understanding of demand created by proximity and co-location is then undoubtedly an efficient way to reduce the net cost of the postal accessibility.
– This need of coordination pleads in favour of a ‘location choice’ policy for public services.

Presented in the 15th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, 31 May-2 June 2007, Semmering, Austria.

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PostEurop 5th IT Forum 2007

Posted by | Jun 5, 2007 | |

The PostEurop IT Forum takes place once a year to spur exchanges in the field of new information and communication technologies among postal operators across Europe.

Innovative IT Solutions will be crucial for the future success of European postal companies. At the PostEurop 2007 IT Forum experts from all across the industry will discuss the latest developments and IT solutions in light of increasing electronic substitution and deregulation. The IT Forum will be hosted by Deutsche Post World Net and take place in the DHL Innovation Centre near Bonn, Germany.

Among the topics to be discussed will be hybrid mail solutions, RFID tags, e-government solutions, digital franking and other hot issues for electronic postal services. Speakers come from postal operators such as CTT Correios de Portugal, DPWN, La Poste Group, Poste Italiane and Itella, and from international consultancies like Accenture and Strategia Group.

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La Poste chooses Orange Business Talk

Posted by | Jun 2, 2007 | |

Orange Business Services has deployed its Business Talk service for the French post office’s technical assistance staff. La Poste technicians and experts of the mail technical department now benefit from two-in-one service, with a single number for fixed and mobile, a unified voice message system and preferential rates for all business calls from a fixed or mobile handset. The post office technicians receive between 65 and 80 calls per day, often while outside the office, and were hard to contact before the change. Some 20 percent of technical support calls went unanswered immediately. Over 2,000 companies currently use Business Talk.

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