Tag: Mail Services

TPG replaces logistics chief

Posted by | Aug 5, 2003 | |

TPG, the Dutch postal group, yesterday replaced the head of its logistics business and announced restructuring costs, write-downs and impairment charges as it moved to improve the unit’s stuttering performance. David Kulik replaces Roberto Rossi as unit chief. The company also trimmed guidance for full-year net income growth to about 5 per cent, excluding pension payments and at constant exchange rates, from 5-10 per cent, reflecting continued “sluggish” economic conditions.

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Dutch Logistics group TPG intensifies restructure

Posted by | Aug 5, 2003 | |

Dutch mail and parcels firm TPG, the world’s second-largest logistics group, delivered second-quarter results yesterday that were better than expected and stepped up efforts to restructure its logistics operations.

The group, which owns Atherstone parcels carrier TNT, employs over 160,000 people in 62 countries and serves over 200 countries. During 2002 the company reported sales of GBP8.2 billion, an increase of 5% over the previous year.

Chief executive Peter Bakker hailed the performance of the mail and express businesses but said: ‘Logistics continues to produce disappointing results but I am confident that major improvements will be made in the future.’

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Estonian Post to try replacing postal stamps with bar codes

Posted by | Aug 5, 2003 | |

Eesti Post (Estonian Post) will launch a pilot project this fall whereby it will introduce bar codes on letters instead of postal stamps. The project will cost 876,000 kroons (EUR 56,000) and involve some 50 Estonian companies, the daily Eesti Paevaleht reported. “The two-dimensional bar code doesn’t look like the bar code used on goods in stores, it’s rather like a square of approximately 1.5 centimeters in size filled with dots,” Eesti Post CEO Alo Streimann told the newspaper.

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Coalition working to get Iraq's postal service up and running

Posted by | Aug 5, 2003 | |

The US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) is working to get Iraq’s postal service fully up and running, hoping that the reopening of Baghdad airport will boost the current slow delivery process. “1,400 postal bags of mail were collected last week at the border with Jordan, and they’ve been processed,” said Sergeant Kent Chicosky, CPA spokesman for postal operations. Some 45 of Iraq’s 69 post offices that reopened at end-April are currently operational.

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UK postal union vows to fight redundancies

Posted by | Aug 5, 2003 | |

Royal Mail has warned that its plan to turn around the loss-making postal service could collapse after it emerged that union leaders were now resisting a key aspect of reform. The Communication Workers Union plans to ballot members on strike action next week after rejecting a 14.5 per cent pay deal tied to shift changes and productivity targets. But a statement confirming the ballot plan yesterday also revealed that the union would not accept wider proposals to reduce the 200,000-strong workforce with 30,000 voluntary redundancies. “We will not do this,” said Dave Ward, the union’s postal deputy general secretary. “It would be signing the death warrant for the entire postal service.”

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