Tag: Mail Services

Can Ghana Post deliver the mail directly?

Posted by | Mar 21, 2005 | |

The government has forecast that Ghana Post, the country’s monopolistic mail distributor should be able to deliver mails directly to houses by the end of the year. “Direct delivery is however impossible without proper street naming and house numbering across the country”, says Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Kwaku Agyeman Manu. Manu who disclosed this at a forum on the 2005 budget organized by the Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC) last Thursday said in a bid to make the identification of streets and houses easy, the government will embark on street naming and house numbering by June this year. He said direct mail delivery could become a major source of employment for the youth and even pensioners, since the sorting, distribution and direct delivery of letters would require more hands.

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Kaare Frydenberg steps down as CEO of Norway Post

Posted by | Mar 21, 2005 | |

Kaare Frydenberg has resigned from his position of chief executive officer at Norway Post. The Board of Norway Post has now started a process to recruit a new chief executive officer. Kaare Frydenberg announced his resignation after serving five years as chief executive officer at Norway Post. He is leaving a company that has undergone major restructuring and has succeeded in becoming competitive and profitable. Mr Frydenberg will continue as chief executive officer for six months – working out his period of notice – after which time he currently has no specific plans.

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US Postmaster General John E. Potter delivers message to mailing industry

Posted by | Mar 19, 2005 | |

On Monday, March 21, the Postmaster General John E. Potter General will deliver the keynote address to the 2005 National Postal Forum (NPF). The mailing industry leaders in attendance will hear a progress report on the Postal Service’s Transformation Plan, the status of Postal reform, and the USPS Governor’s recent direction for management to prepare a rate case filing with the Postal Rate Commission. Potter’s 8 am speech during the first general session of the NPF opens the premier mailing industry symposium. Since Potter became the 72nd Postmaster General of the United States in June, 2001, he has led the Postal Service in achieving dramatic productivity increases and consistent savings, while reaching record levels of customer service and satisfaction. Potter’s blueprint for change, outlined in the April 2002 Transformation Plan, has been cited as an example of positive steps the agency is taking independent of proposed changes to its statutory operating charter.
For 2005, the Postal Service produced better-than-expected First Quarter results with a significant increase in mail volume and net income of USD1.7 billion. Since June, 2002 the Postal Service has kept postal rates stable. Potter has pledged that rates will remain steady until 2006.

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Collins, Carper introduce Bill to overhaul US Postal Service

Posted by | Mar 18, 2005 | |

After months of negotiations with the White House, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairwoman Collins and Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., introduced a bill Thursday to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service. The bill, which is largely similar to legislation approved by the panel last year, incorporates some new provisions suggested by the administration. But the sponsors have not acquiesced to the White House on two major areas of contention: shifting the responsibility for the agency’s military pensions back to the Treasury Department and giving the Postal Service access to money slated for an escrow account. The administration’s opposition to those provisions kept the bill, which was also passed by the House Government Reform Committee, from moving to the floor of either chamber last year.

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An Post mobile top-up divisions sold for EUR85m

Posted by | Mar 18, 2005 | |

An Post has sold two international subsidiaries, which provide top-up services to mobile phone users, for EUR85 million.

Irish electronic payments group Alphyra bought the companies, which are called PostTS UK and PostTS Spain. It said yesterday’s transaction consolidated its position as the biggest independent payments operator in Europe.

The deal represents a good return for An Post, which said it had invested about EUR16 million in the firms since it bought them from the Caudwell Group in 2002.

An Post said in a statement that the sale of the two international divisions was part of its overall recovery strategy, which may see 2,000 jobs go at the firm.

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