Tag: Mail Services

EMA Foundation for Paper-Based Communications Institute for Postal Studies Releases 2008 Economic Jobs Study

Posted by | Jun 17, 2008 | |

The EMA Foundation for Paper-Based Communications’ Institute for Postal Studies has just released the 2008 Economic Jobs Study, which is an update to their 2003 study. The study reveals that there are approximately 8.4 million jobs and over USD 1 trillion in revenue associated with the mailing industry.

The study breaks down the jobs by state and congressional district. Jobs associated with the mailing industry are contained in two categories: 1) those that are associated with the creation of mail or the handling, distribution, delivery or receipt of mail and parcels; and 2) jobs associated with firms whose sales depend on mail and parcel carriers to deliver products that they sell or that use mail advertising to sell their products or
services.

This study analyzes data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Occupation Employment Statistics program on employment by occupation and industry, the U.S. Census Bureau in its 2002 Economic Census, and the Direct Marketing Association’s study of jobs associated with direct mail marketing.

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Royal Mail paid twice for letters to charity (UK)

Posted by | Jun 17, 2008 | |

The Royal Mail is often being paid twice for donors’ letters to charities, Third Sector (June 11) reveals.
Many charities supply Freepost envelopes to supporters but tell them that if they use a stamp it will save the charity money. But the Royal Mail has introduced an automated system for sorting Freepost envelopes that cannot tell whether envelopes are stamped. So unless their staff spot the stamps, the charity will pay postage and the donor will pay for the stamp.
“Royal Mail has failed to properly communicate to charities the change in circumstances,” says Lindsay Boswell, the Chief Executive of the Institute of Fundraising.
WaterAid has stopped asking donors to put stamps on Freepost envelopes and Samaritans has changed its wording from “if you use a stamp it will save us money” to “it could save us money”. Twelve charities from the Direct Marketers in Fundraising Group met Royal Mail in March to find a solution but say the company cancelled a follow-up meeting. A Royal Mail spokesman
A task force will study how charities can deliver more welfare-to-work initiatives.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) jointly launched the task force, reports Third Sector Online.
The voluntary sector missed out on most DWP contracts to provide back-to-work services for people on incapacity benefit last year. The task force will look at the barriers the sector faces.

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Action looming at Royal Mail

Posted by | Jun 17, 2008 | |

Postal workers could start a national strike later this year after delegates at last week’s CWU union conference voted unanimously for action against attacks on their pensions, threats to shut scores of offices, and the menace of privatisation.

The CWU estimates that around 40,000 jobs are at risk from management plans.

Deputy general secretary Dave Ward told delegates that the government’s liberalisation of the postal service stood behind the attacks.

“We know that we can’t simply strike our way out of this situation – and that there must be a political solution to the problems we face – but if management don’t back off, we will ballot for strike action,” he said.

He added that the timetable for the strike “will be designed to maximise pressure on the company and the government”, but that the union would offer talks before a ballot is implemented.

Bob Gibson, the CWU assistant secretary outdoor, said that the coming dispute would be even more important than last year’s.

In closed session several delegates warned the union’s leadership not to flag up compromises before the start of any negotiations.

It is expected that the union will initiate a ballot for strike action in August, with action likely from September onwards.

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Postal unions warn of strikes over post office closures

Posted by | Jun 16, 2008 | |

A postal workers’ union delivered an ultimatum to the Government, saying there will be escalating strike action unless it abandons plans to axe 2,500 post offices and franchise out 83 Crown Offices.
The Communication Workers Union assistant secretary Andy Furey said “the Government can’t afford not to support this vital public service”.
In a letter to MPs, the union warns: “If a settlement is not reached, an industrial action ballot is inevitable.”
David Drew, Labour MP for Stroud, blamed Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier and chairman Alan Leighton.
He said they had “taken Manchester United and turned them into Derby County”

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Deutsche Post plans to sell all remaining post offices by 2011

Posted by | Jun 16, 2008 | |

Deutsche Post plans to sell off all its 750 remaining post offices by 2011 and will then have a retail network of 13,500 outlets operated completely by private partners or its Postbank subsidiary. It has previously planned to retain about 100 “flagship” outlets as an in-house operation.

A company spokesman confirmed German media reports about the post office sales, stressing that the local branches would not be closed but taken over by private retail partners. The 2,000 post office staff affected by the disposal would be transferred to other jobs within the group.

Deutsche Post’s head of mail, Jürgen Gerdes, said in a statement that the German postal operator was committed to extending its network, improving its service and adding more products while keeping its retail network costs under control.

Deutsche Post, which is legally obliged to operate a minimum network of 12,000 postal outlets, currently has about 13,500 outlets. Over the last decade it has started to divide up the network into a three-tier structure with full-service “flagship” post offices, full-service postal counters within retail stores, and streamlined postal services offered by private partners.

There are currently about 1,600 “flagship” outlets. Of these, 850 are former post offices in top locations sold to financial services subsidiary Postbank in 2006 and re-branded as “Postbank Finanzcenters”, offering a full range of banking and postal services. The other 750 Deutsche Post-operated post offices, often in secondary locations, are those planned to be disposed of.

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