Tag: Mail Services

Japanese panel to be given power to monitor privatized postal units

Posted by | Dec 6, 2004 | |

A committee to monitor four entities to be created by privatizing the state-backed Japan Post will be given various powers including advising Cabinet ministers, government sources said Monday. The committee, whose chairman will be appointed by the prime minister, will be placed under the privatization promotion headquarters consisting of all Cabinet ministers, they said. The committee will consist of several people with expertise and will begin its 10-year work in April 2007. The government intends to include the establishment of the committee in legislation for the privatization of postal services it will present to the ordinary Diet session to be convened in January.

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UK Royal Mail goes to war against post watchdog

Posted by | Dec 5, 2004 | |

Lawyers have been called in to settle a row that has broken out between Royal Mail and Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for postal services.

Allan Leighton, Royal Mail’s chairman, is demanding that Postwatch retracts comments made last week stating that consumers should not bother using first class stamps on Christmas cards this year because the service is so unreliable.

Letters have been flying between the two groups as relations have hit a new low.

Royal Mail has hired the law firm Shillings, and Postwatch is represented by Wragg & Co.

David Simpson, a Royal Mail spokesman said: “We are furious at the misleading impression Postwatch has given that first-class mail does not arrive faster than second class. That is absolute rubbish.”

But Postwatch is unfazed by Royal Mail’s anger. One source said defiantly: “This has gone off like a bomb. We are being bullied and Royal Mail is trying to gag us, but we will not be gagged.”

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Deutsche Post should pay VAT on letters, Hesse politician says

Posted by | Dec 5, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG should pay value-added tax on letters it delivers, just like its privately owned rivals, the state of Hesse’s economy minister Alois Rhiel said.

Rhiel said he will formalise the demand at a meeting of Germany’s state economy ministers in Berlin on Wednesday and Thursday.

He told DPA that fair competition will create jobs and reduce postal fees.

Deutsche Post’s monopoly and its privileged tax position mean that private companies have little chance to compete. Even in areas where competition is theoretically possible, Deutsche Post still controls 88 pct of the market, Rhiel maintained.

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German publishers to compete with Deutsche Post

Posted by | Dec 3, 2004 | |

According to reports, German publishing groups Axel Springer and Georg von Holtzbrink signed contracts last week regarding the acquisition of a majority in Pin, a German company that provides postal services. Each of the two publishing companies acquired a stake of 30 per cent in Pin, although the groups hope to later increase their combined stake to 75 per cent. The supervisory board of Springer have yet to approve the deal. In acquiring the stake, the companies are hoping to build up a service to rival that of Deutsche Post, the German postal services operator. The monopoly that this company currently has on the market for the delivery of letters is due to come to an end in 2007.

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French competition authority reduces La Poste fine

Posted by | Dec 3, 2004 | |

The French competition authority, Conseil de la Concurrence, has reduced by 90 per cent the fine imposed on the French post office, La Poste, for anti-competitive practices. The regulator has decided that La Poste, which was found guilty of thwarting competition by granting discounts to corporate customers, should pay a smaller fine because it has agreed to change its practices.

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