Tag: Mail Services

Haypost to open an affiliated company “Haypost International” in Europe for international postal operations

Posted by | Jun 13, 2008 | |

Haypost CJSC is planning to open an affiliated company in Europe for international postal operations. Haypost Director Hans Boon told
ArmInfo correspondent that the new company will be called “Haypost
International” and it will be set up in the Netherlands. He noted
that “Haypost International” will be opened in Leiden or in another
small town in its suburbs. While choosing the town, Haypost will take
into consideration the size of the Armenian community there, as it
is the foreign Armenians that will mostly make use of the company’s
services, he added. He also added that at present they are finishing the
talks with Justice Ministry of the Netherlands to settle relevant
legal issues for opening and activity of the company, which will be
officially opened on 18 June.

Along with it, Haypost is going to open several new post offices
in European states, which in fact will be just points for letters
collection, but thanks to them correspondence from European states
to Armenia will become faster as it will be implemented in the single
Haypost network, Hans Boon said.

To recall, at present 900 post offices are functioning at Haypost
system.

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Starting from June, 9nd HayPost launches the BLIZKO money transfer system, providing fast and protected services

Posted by | Jun 13, 2008 | |

Starting from June, 9nd HayPost launches the BLIZKO money transfer system, providing fast and protected services. A money transfer will be available in a few minutes after sending it. Each transaction is protected by an 8 digit code.
This new services is fully in compliance with the Central Bank Armenia policy. HayPost will pay in legal tender only, it means in Armenian Dram.
BLIZKO has more than 3200 service points, with more than 800 service points in Russia, from which already more than 100 in Moscow city.
“BLIZKO implementation will allow expanding the participation and activities of HayPost at the remittance market of Armenia as well to provide with reliable and fast money transfer services” states Hans Boon, Director General of HayPost.
First the service will be available at six Post Offices in Yerevan, number 001, 002, 010, 012, 019 and 068. During the coming months this high quality service will be rolled out all over the country, bringing quick money transfer services close to the villages.
Also new improved cash management procedures will allow paying out the money transfer at once.
This year HayPost will also connect other remittances suppliers, to become the last-mile supermarket for remittances in Armenia.

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Royal Mail Chairman launches new charity partnership (UK)

Posted by | Jun 13, 2008 | |

Royal Mail Group Chairman Allan Leighton officially launched a new corporate partnership with the children and young people’s charity Barnardo’s at the Chairman’s Awards for Excellence. The annual awards celebrate the achievements of Royal Mail Group people who make a positive contribution to their local community or workplace.

Royal Mail Group’s new charity partner was chosen following a business-wide ballot of employees as the successful three-year partnership with Help the Hospices ended in March this year.

Royal Mail Group itself will provide grants to top up funds raised by its employees and Chairman Allan Leighton made the first donation to Barnardo’s Chief Executive Martin Narey at the Awards for Excellence. All of the money raised by Royal Mail Group will be distributed to the 394 Barnardo’s local community based projects which help 115,000 children and young people.

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Japan Post to outsource rural operations to Secom

Posted by | Jun 12, 2008 | |

Japan Post Holdings Co. plans to outsource some of its post office operations to Secom Co., the nation’s biggest security-services company, in an attempt to maintain its rural network, the Nikkei English News said, without citing anyone.

Of Secom’s 2,200 stations across Japan, three or four in remote regions will accept mail and provide financial services on behalf of Japan Post as early as the end of this year, the news service said.

Japan Post, which began its 10-year privatization process in October, is required to maintain its nationwide network of more than 24,000 post offices while increasing profit, Nikkei said. Japan Post Network Co., a postal subsidiary of the world’s largest financial institution by assets, will outsource to big firms for the first time, the news service said.

Japan Post Network currently uses limited-service branches such as individuals and local government offices to provide mail and postal savings, Nikkei reported. As of May 31, 454 such branches, mostly in rural areas, had been closed because of aging operators and loss of customers, Nikkei said.

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Kenya to chair 24th UPU Congress in Geneva and future Council of Administration

Posted by | Jun 12, 2008 | |

Kenya will chair the 24th Universal Postal Congress in Geneva from 23 July to 12 August 2008 as well as the UPU’s Council of Administration for 2009-2012.

The Kenyan Government has confirmed that Mr. Bishar A. Hussein, a former Postmaster General of Kenya Post and currently Kenya’s Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, will chair the Congress.

When the UPU Council of Administration decided last February to change the venue of the 24th Universal Postal Congress from Nairobi to Geneva, it also passed a resolution inviting Kenya to chair the Congress and the future Council of Administration. Kenya has now formally accepted these invitations.

Kenya will also chair the Council of Administration for 2009-2012, a UPU body made up of 41 member countries and responsible for overseeing the organization’s finances, international postal regulations and strategic direction of the Union between Congresses.

In other Congress news, France’s Edouard Dayan, current UPU Director General, and China’s Guozhong Huang, current Deputy Director General, will run for a second four-year mandate. No other candidates have stepped forward for the top UPU jobs.
So far, Great Britain, Greece, the Russian Federation and Switzerland have announced their candidacy for the chairmanship of the Postal Operations Council, a 40-member UPU body in charge of overseeing a range of postal operational issues such as security, quality of service, technical cooperation and development, postal financial services and more. Other countries could still announce their candidacy up until Congress.

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