Tag: Mail Services

US Postal Service scores big in customers’ delivery comparisons

Posted by | Dec 30, 2004 | |

The US Postal Service – no stranger to measuring itself for performance success and customer satisfaction – took the lead in four informal parcel delivery tests conducted by postal customers this holiday mailing season. The “New York Times,” “Grand Rapids Press” (MI), KSLTV (UT) and KTVI (MO), within days of one another, conducted mailing comparisons among the US Postal Service, DHL, FedEx and United Parcel Service, measuring delivery time, quality and cost, shipping identical items ranging from coffee mugs and holiday ornaments to pecans within each test and using comparable classes of mail.

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French postal unions call for strike

Posted by | Dec 29, 2004 | |

The French trade unions FO, CGT and SUD have decided to protest against the proposed incorporation into French law of European directives on the liberalisation of the postal services market by urging employees of the French post office, La Poste, to stop work for 24hrs when the legislation comes before the French parliament on January 18. The bill in question also gives La Poste the right to set up a credit institution.”

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Deutsche Post joint venture lands major order in Holland

Posted by | Dec 28, 2004 | |

Selekt Mail, a joint venture between Deutsche Post and the Dutch company Wegener, has won a major contract put out by Holland´s largest mail order group, the Neckermann Group Netherlands. Starting immediately, Selekt Mail has been named Neckermann´s exclusive partner for the delivery of catalogs and direct mail in Holland.

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Germany to end monopoly in letter delivery-media

Posted by | Dec 26, 2004 | |

Germany does not plan to extend Deutsche Post’s monopoly for delivering standard letters beyond the monopoly’s current expiration date in 2007, a magazine reported on Sunday. The government does not think it is necessary to extend the monopoly, which keeps Post’s rivals including United Parcel Service, FedEx and its European peers from collecting and sorting letters of up to 50 grams, German newsweekly Focus reported. The magazine cited as its source a statement drafted by the government in reply to the German postal service regulator’s annual report. Neither document has yet been made public.

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Deutsche Post’s DHL to handle US Postal Service’s packages to Germany

Posted by | Dec 23, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG said its express mail courier DHL has agreed to transport 600,000 packages per year to Germany for the US Postal Service, beginning in January. No financial details were disclosed. Deutsche Post said the new contract will create 20 new jobs in its international mail centre at Frankfurt airport and 20 in its package centre in Saulheim in the German state of Rhineland Palatinate. US Postal Service’s packages to Germany were previously handled by General Logistics Systems.

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