Tag: Mail Services

An Post row over CWU letter on SDS closure

Posted by | Nov 16, 2004 | |

An Post management has sharply criticised a letter sent by the Communication Workers Union to customers of its package and courier division SDS, which attacked the closure of the subsidiary. In the attack, the CWU said it wanted to highlight the “scandalous disregard shown by management at the company for the interests of its customers as well as workers and the service.” The row comes at a time when deteriorating industrial relations at the postal services has hampered plans for a massive restructuring, which would cut the workforce by 1,400 and slash the 35m overtime bill. The CWU letter, sent last Friday, claimed by closing SDS, “An Post is imposing a massive increase in cost on small business by stealth.”

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Dutch Sandd To Deliver Addressed Mailings to Post Office Boxes

Posted by | Nov 16, 2004 | |

Dutch postal services company Sort and Deliver (Sandd) in Apeldoorn, eastern Netherlands, will soon start delivering addressed mailings to post office boxes, the company said on November 15, 2004. The delivery to post office boxes is expected to strengthen its growth ambitions. Sandd is specialised in delivering addressed direct mailings, sponsored magazines, catalogues and periodicals. The company expects to deliver 130 million addressed mailings in 2004 and 210 million in 2005. Sandd has a domestic market share of 5.0 pct and is the second player on the Dutch postal market after Dutch postal, express and logistics company TPG NV, it said. The company targets a market share of between 20 pct and 25 pct in 2008.

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Four Japan Post spinoffs projected to be in black in FY 2008

Posted by | Nov 16, 2004 | |

The government projects that the four entities that will take over mail delivery, postal savings, postal insurance and post office network management from Japan Post after its privatization starting in fiscal 2007 will all be in the black in fiscal 2008, government sources said Tuesday. The government’s preparatory office for postal privatization projects that only the postal insurance company will be in the red in fiscal 2007, when the 10-year privatization process begins, they said. The office is scheduled to report its 10-year projections of earnings by the four units from fiscal 2007 at a meeting of experts to be held Wednesday, the sources said.

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US Postal Service security still lacking, government report finds

Posted by | Nov 16, 2004 | |

Thousands of keys are missing from former employees at one postal site, and gates are unlocked at others, the government said Tuesday in a report detailing security gaps at major mail centers. A report by the US Government Accountability Office said efforts have been made to make postal facilities more secure, but security still lags at many of the nation’s 373 core mail centers. The US Postal Service agreed with the report and promised to refocus its efforts. “We still have room for improvement at many facilities,” the Postal Service’s chief operating officer, Patrick Donahoe, wrote to the GAO after receiving the agency’s report. Investigators with the GAO visited 13 core facilities and found problems ranging from open entry gates to employees not wearing badges. Core sites include processing and distribution centers, bulk mail centers and operations at airports.

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Postwatch evidence on UK Crown Post Offices

Posted by | Nov 16, 2004 | |

Postwatch gave evidence to the Trade and Industry Committee earlier today.
Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for postal services, welcomes the timely
inquiry by the Trade and Industry Committee into the future of the Crown
Office Network and looks forward to helping the Committee with its work.
Giving evidence Peter Carr, Chairman of Postwatch, said: “I am delighted the
Trade and Industry Committee is continuing its interest in the future of the
555 remaining Crown Post Offices. “These Offices are very important to customers. Whilst they represent less than 4 per cent of the post offices in the UK they transact over 25 per cent of all post office business and 7 million customers visit them each week. No Crown Office closures should be proposed until the Committee’s findings are known and a comprehensive strategy is in place.

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