Tag: Mail Services

Head of Polish post office fired over report he violated anti-corruption law

Posted by | Aug 7, 2003 | |

Poland’s deputy prime minister dismissed the head of the state-owned post office Thursday following a report that he violated an anti-corruption law by sitting on the supervisory board of an insurance company. Marek Pol, who is also infrastructure minister, dismissed Leszek Kwiatek as general director of Poczta Polska after the daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported that he also had sat on the board of the Polish Reinsurance Association since May 2002, the government said in a statement.

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UK Royal Mail calls for talks with ACAS

Posted by | Aug 7, 2003 | |

Royal Mail have made an attempt to break the deadlocked pay talks with the postal workers’ union by calling for talks with Acas, the conciliation service. The Communication Workers’ Union has threatened the first national strike action in seven years over the company’s pay offer.

The company have offered 14.5% over 18 months, bringing delivery workers’ minimum pensionable pay up from £262 to £300 a week. The union argues the “real” offer is only 4.5%, since the rest is in return for various changes in working practices. The CWU’s postal executive is to decide whether to accept the invitation to go to Acas. Last year’s postal pay talks involved negotiations with Acas.

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Qualified approval for 7 cent stamp rise in Ireland

Posted by | Aug 6, 2003 | |

The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) has agreed in principle to allow An Post to increase the price of a stamp by seven cent to 48 cents.
But in a decision published yesterday the regulator deferred a final ruling until An Post sets up a discount scheme to help small firms with the cost of postage. This final ruling is now due after August 15th and should open the way for price increases on a range of postal services from the end of this month.
The increases will be worth E18 million a year to An Post, which last week published its biggest annual losses of E70.5 million. An Post welcomed the ruling last night, which it described as the first major increase in Irish postal prices since 1991.

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UK Royal Mail bitten by watchdog cost

Posted by | Aug 6, 2003 | |

Postwatch, the consumer postal watchdog funded by the Royal Mail, spent more than pounds 414,000 on networking and travel last year – over pounds 8,000 per member of staff. The watchdog, whose lavish spending has angered the lossmaking mail delivery firm, also spent a further pounds 167,000 on furniture, according to its annual report. Royal Mail paid pounds 10m towards the watchdog last year. Postwatch was set up as a successor to POUNC, the Post Office Users Council, which cost just pounds 800,000 a year.

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Challenging new targets set for direct mail

Posted by | Aug 5, 2003 | |

Tough new targets for more collection and recycling of direct (“junk”) mail were agreed today in an initiative that should also cut the amount of direct mail delivered to British homes. Government and industry have signed an historic agreement after many months of negotiation to increase the amount of junk mail that is recycled. Nearly 550,000 tonnes of paper are used in direct mail and promotions every year in the form of direct mail, door-to-door advertising material and newspaper inserts. As a result of discussions with the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), the paper and printing industries, the Royal Mail and local authorities, the Government and the DMA have signed an agreement that sets rising recycling targets.

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