La Poste, the French postal service operator, is planning to sell train tickets for French rail operator SNCF with effect from 2005. It already has the necessary internet terminals in around 1,000 post offices to enable ticket reservation.
Read MoreDeutsche Post World Net AG’s express mail courier DHL is close to launching a joint venture with New Zealand’s NZ Post, Die Welt newspaper reported. It said DHL’s new head John Mullen – who replaced Uwe Doerken three weeks ago – hopes to complete the deal by the end of the year. New Zealand-Australian express mail has a sales potential of about 185 mln aud per year.
Read MoreThe Belgian post office damaged almost half the parcels it transported as part of a European wide test, it emerged on Tuesday. The European Consumer Centre (ECC), which is subsidised by the European Commission, used national post offices across the EU to send 260 parcels to 13 destinations, La Derniere Heure reported. All of the parcels weighed 2.5 kilograms and were sent on 14 September. On average 13.6 percent of the packages arrived damaged at their destinations. But those handled by the Belgian Post office had a much worse time. A total of 46 percent – almost half – of the 24 parcels the post office had to process were damaged when they reached their destinations, the ECC found.
Read MoreA privatization sale of shares in German mail carrier Deutsche Post was oversubscribed, and institutional investors scooped up all available stock at the market price, the federal government bank KfW said Tuesday in Frankfurt.
The sale reduces the overall government stake in Post, which owns the DHL parcels business and courier operations in several countries, to 56.9 per cent, with the rest traded on the German stock exchanges. Individual investors were excluded from the fast-track sale. Lead banks Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley have an option till the end of December to purchase additional stock at the same price to a total value of 150 million euros.
Sankyu Inc. and Japan Post plan on Thursday to start jointly operating a small-lot parcel delivery service from Hong Kong to Japan using marine freighters, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun learned Monday. The new service will be the first of the joint international logistic services by the two firms. Sankyu will pick up parcels in Hong Kong, ship them, then complete their customs clearance in Japan. Japan Post will deliver them using its Yu Pack parcel delivery service network. The two partners expect it to be used for shipping machine and electronic parts as well as mail-order purchases.
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