Postal bodies clash over price increases
Consignia and consumer watchdog Postwatch have clashed over price rises
for direct marketing services only four days after the postal operator
signed its new operating licence.
Tag: Mail Services
La Poste profits slump, but logistics revenue jumps
LONDON – La Poste, France’s state mail monopoly, suffered a sharp decline in
net
profits last year due to exceptional costs and higher energy prices, but
parcel
and logistics revenue surged. Net profit slid 51% to 139.2 million euros
($125.3
million) in 2000 from 283.6 million euros ($255.2 million) in 1999.
the [Japanese] Postal Services Agency, part of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, plans to begin opening up postal mail transport in April
Nihon Keizai Shimbun has reported that “the [Japanese] Postal Services Agency, part of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, plans to begin opening up postal mail transport in April to major shipping and transport companies, including door-to-door parcel delivery firms.
Read MoreLa Poste Blames Falling Pft On Euro, Rising Energy Costs
March 30, 2001 — La Poste, the French state mail monopoly, said Thursday exceptional costs and higher energy prices caused a significant drop in profits in 2000. La Poste reported net profit of EUR139.2 million in 2000, down 51% from EUR283.6 million in 1999.La Poste chief executive Martin Vial cited costs related to the euro switchover, higher transport and energy prices, and the implementation of the 35-hour working week were behind the declining profitability.
Read MoreCan they deliver?
THE Post Office has come in for a fair amount of stick recently about
lower service standards and the high level of industrial disputes. It is
of course Postwatch’s role to highlight this on behalf of the consumer
and to try to help the Post Office to improve the position. The lot of the
individual ‘postie’ is often not an enviable one.
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