The French competition authorities have approved a 90 per cent reduction in the financial sanction it would normally have imposed on national postal services group La Poste for abuse of its dominant position in its mail and parcel delivery services.
Read MoreA proposed one-cent increase in the price of stamps for domestic mail is a “cash grab” by Canada Post that the government should halt because of spending problems at the Crown corporation, Conservative MP Brian Pallister said yesterday.
Canada Post should first demonstrate it has fixed internal management deficiencies uncovered this year in an audit by Deloitte Touche, including $35m in untendered contracts awarded to Liberal-friendly companies, Mr. Pallister said. The stamp price hike, which will raise the price of a letter stamp for domestic mail to 50 cents – is scheduled for approval by the Treasury Board next
week, Mr. Pallister said.
Canada Post announced the price increases last June, to take effect Jan. 17.
Read MoreIan Kavanagh, Managing Director of BTB Mailflight Ltd was today delighted to announce BTB Mailflight’s acquisition of Mailflow International Ltd.
BTB Mailflight Ltd, one of the UK’s leading international mailing houses has acquired Mailflow International to help the company accelerate towards their growth objectives.
Ian Kavanagh commented “Adding Mailflow to the BTB Mailflight Group increases our market share in the international mail arena and will further increase our buying power. This puts us in an even better position to continue to offer some of the most cost effective international mailing solutions available”.
Read MoreDoing better business was the first theme at the Unisys Air Cargo Conference this October. Hosted as usual in Nice, France, it brought together 60 senior executives from the global industry and focused on the key areas of doing better business, outsourcing, technology and alliances. Robbie Anderson, managing director Planning & Support of Continental Airlines Cargo, was the first panel speaker to address this topic. After a general overview of Continental Airlines’ route network, the fleet (including 18 B777-200s) and the company’s cargo division, he presented details of the USPS mail scanning and cargo revenue management initiatives on which his division had worked. Both initiatives had substantially improved revenues, Anderson said. “Any time we have opportunities within the cargo department to leverage margins and revenues, we get quite a bit of interest at the executive level,” Anderson said.
Read MoreDeutsche Post has defended itself against accusations by trade union ver.di that separating letter sorting and delivery will lead to a drop in quality. Ver.di says that plans by Deutsche Post to use machines to automatically sort post by 2007, instead of postal workers doing it themselves will mean workers being forced to work part-time, which in turn would lead to a drop in quality. The union has also told Deutsche Post that its workers are disenchanted and working a mountain of overtime.
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