Tag: Mail Services

Deliveries face cuts in Japan’s post sale: Reduced service would raise anti-privatisation clamour

Posted by | Jan 14, 2005 | |

The Japanese government may consider cutting mail deliveries from daily to every other day in some districts when it privatises the post office in 2007, an adviser to the sell-off said.

Any proposal to dilute the post’s “universal service” could enrage the public and provoke parliamentary opposition to the sale, which will be discussed in what is expected to be a charged Diet debate in March.

Most Japanese – including many within the Liberal Democratic party of Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister – see the network as a vital service.

As well as delivering mail through a dense branch network, the post office is the biggest financial institution in the world, with assets of Y350,000bn (Dollars 3,418bn) in its savings and insurance arms. It employs one in three civil servants.

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TPG to become TNT: one global brand for all activities

Posted by | Jan 14, 2005 | |

TPG will operate globally under the brand TNT for all its activities from 2006. If approved during the General Meeting of Shareholders, the statutory name of the group (and the name of the share listed on the stock exchange) will be changed on 8 April 2005 to TNT N.V. The name change highlights the increasing internationalisation of the company. PTT Post adopted the name TPG after it acquired TNT in 1998 and changed its name to TPG Post in 2002. Outside The Netherlands, TPG presently offers postal services in eight European countries, partly under the name TNT. The name change will be accompanied by a change in the company colour to orange for the entire group. The phased introduction of the TNT brand for the Mail division and of its corporate identity will take form starting from 2006.

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Österreichische Post AG presents concept for postal service coverage in all of Austria

Posted by | Jan 13, 2005 | |

As announced already before Christmas, Österreichische Post AG today presented a comprehensive concept on how it plans to meet its obligation to provide universal service, with a special focus on what the network of postal service outlets will look like.
In this context, Österreichische Post AG pointed out that the obligation to provide universal service goes far beyond the issue of how many post offices there should be in Austria, being concerned with ensuring daily postal service delivery all over Austria on a continuous and permanent basis.

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CTT/Portuguese Post-Office selects edocs’ to deliver mail online

Posted by | Jan 13, 2005 | |

edocs, Inc. today announced that its software platform has been selected by CTT Portugal to launch an electronic mailbox service encompassing electronic statement, billing and payment capabilities to all corporate, consumer and government customers of the Portuguese Post-Office. The new platform is part of a nationwide rollout that will provide customers with solutions for accessing all documents via a secure Universal Electronic Post Office Box (UEPOB), and will specifically provide the ability to view mail and pay invoices anywhere, anytime.

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Poste Italiane hikes Special Delivery prices by 9.0 Pct

Posted by | Jan 13, 2005 | |

Italian state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane has raised the prices of the special deliveries by 9. 0 pct, it was reported on January 13, 2004. The rise was due to the higher costs of the company and the improved quality of the services. The price of the special delivery of a letter in one day increased to 8.5 euro (USD11.3) from 8.0 euro (USD10.6). The special delivery of a parcel in one day went up to 13 euro (USD17.2) from 12 euro (USD15.9), while the price of a parcel consigned in three days rose to 8.0 euro from 7.0 euro (USD9.3). Recently Poste Italiane has raised the prices of the ordinary parcels to 7.0 euro from 5.16 euro (USD6.8).

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