Tag: Mail Services

Japan Post to launch new parcel delivery service in October

Posted by | Aug 14, 2003 | |

Japan Post plans to begin a 500 yen nationwide delivery service from October for parcels that weigh up to two kilograms, or the equivalent of about 200 sheets of A4 paper.

The new service will be an extension of a trial Japan Post has been conducting in three Tokyo wards and two Osaka wards since April.

Japan Post plans to apply to the Public Management Ministry at the end of September for approval to introduce the new service in mid-October.

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Posten Sverige AB and Hong Kong Post plan joint stamp issue

Posted by | Aug 14, 2003 | |

The Swedish postal services company Posten Sverige AB said on Wednesday (13 August) that it had signed a partnership agreement with Hongkong Post. The agreement involved the design and printing in Sweden of a joint postage stamp series, Shorebirds and Seabirds, Posten said. The stamps will have different denominations in Sweden and Hong Kong.

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Strike ballot looms as Royal Mail postal talks break down

Posted by | Aug 14, 2003 | |

Union bosses meet to discuss the way forward after talks aimed at resolving a dispute over postal workers’ pay ended in failure.

Leaders of the Communication Workers Union met Royal Mail managers throughout the day at the conciliation service Acas in a bid to settle the dispute which could lead to the first national strike in seven years.

But the meeting ended without agreement and the union will now press ahead with a ballot of 160,000 postal workers for strikes.

Ballot papers will go out next week and the result will be announced next month.

The union will have to give a week’s notice of any industrial action.

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National postal service operator Ceska posta sees letter delivery fall nearly 10 % in 1H

Posted by | Aug 12, 2003 | |

The national postal service Ceska posta (CP) delivered 292 mln letters and postcards in the first six months of 2003, a drop of 9 % yr/yr. The firm managed to hike revenues however, by 8.6 % yr/yr to CZK 2.12 bn. CP attributes the decrease in number of letters delivered to greater interest in e-mail and SMS, CP spokesman Ladislav Vancura told the CTK news agency.

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