Tag: Mail Services

Oxfordshire And Gloucestershire Area Plan – Public Consultation commences on proposed Outreach Service for Miserden and Rendcomb

Posted by | May 28, 2008 | |

Post Office Ltd has today (28 May) launched a six-week consultation for proposed partner outreach services for the villages of Miserden and Rendcomb.

These proposals are part of its network change programme to modernise and reshape its network of branches.

Post Office Ltd proposes running a partner service from the current Post Office site at Brompton Cottage, Miserden on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday between 8.30am and 1pm , then 2pm until 5.30pm. On Wednesday and Saturday the service would be available between 8.30am and 1pm.

A partner service is also proposed for Rendcomb from the existing site at the Village School. Under this proposal the service would be available from Monday to Friday between 8am and 5pm and between 8am and 1pm on Saturdays.

The proposals follow the decision by Post Office Ltd to close the existing branches at Miserden and Rendcomb and introduce an outreach service under the Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire plan, which was concluded earlier this year. The public consultation into the proposal begins today (May 28) and ends on 8 July 2008.

The standard range of products and services will continue to be available through the proposed partner Post Office services. Customers can still collect benefits in cash using our banking services or Post Office® card account.

Mark Partington, Network Development Manager for the Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire area said: “We welcome feedback from the local community during the six week consultation and look forward to receiving comments on the days and hours being suggested.”

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Cessation of Sunday and Bank Holiday Collections – Changes to Collection Plates

Posted by | May 28, 2008 | |

Part of the agreement given by Postcomm to Royal Mail’s request to stop Sunday and Bank Holiday collections was for Royal Mail to amend the information on the collection plates.
Postwatch visited 770 post boxes to see if collection plates no longer referred to Sunday and Bank Holiday collections, but found that none had been changed.
Postwatch was advised by Royal Mail that the removal of all references to Sunday and Bank Holiday collections to its collection plates will be completed by 25 February.
Between 17 March and 4 April Postwatch visited 653 post boxes and found that only 85 pct of collection plates had been changed. This is a disappointing result as it is now over 6 months since Postcomm approved Royal Mail’s application and Postwatch believes that all post boxes should have had their collection plates changed.
The results of our survey have been passed to Postcomm asking it to contact Royal Mail as it is in apparent breach of the conditions set by Postcomm when agreeing this application.

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ZIPCodeWorld™ USA Gold PO Boxes Database

Posted by | May 28, 2008 | |

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Australia Post's AUD 155m tax grab

Posted by | May 27, 2008 | |

Australia Post will pay a “special dividend” of AUD 150 million to the Government in the 2008-09 financial year. The amount is on top of the AUD 300million Australia Post provides to the commonwealth annually.

Liberal senator Simon Birmingham asked Australia Post executives how they justified slugging consumers with increased postal charges when that money would simply be transferred to the Government’s coffers.

The committee heard that about AUD 90 million would be raised from increased postal charges applied to ordinary small and large letters, which were mostly sent by private individuals and some small businesses.

About AUD 55 million would be raised from pre-sorted letters, which are mostly sent by businesses, while the remaining money will come from other types of letters.

Australia Post group financial controller Michael Tenace said the amount to be raised from increased postal charges had nothing to do with the special dividend to be paid to the Government, which would come out of profits generated over two financial years.

He said the proposed price hikes were to cover the increased costs of delivering letters.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is reviewing Australia Post’s proposal to raise the basic postage rate from 50c to 55c and increase the price of other mail services.

The ACCC will release its preliminary views on the matter next month.

Australia Post corporate secretary Michael McCloskey said the average extra cost for households would be AUD 2.70 a year.
Australia Post’s CAD 155m ‘tax grab

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MARABÚ II implemented in Spanish provincial capitals and major cities

Posted by | May 27, 2008 | |

CORREOS has successfully completed the implementation of Marabú II, the new automated system for monitoring collection from letter boxes, which will improve the efficiency and quality of the postal service.
This computer application can accurately track collections of letters and other post deposited by the public in the boxes on the main streets and squares of all Spanish capitals and all towns of over 50,000 residents.
The results obtained to date show that Marabú II ensures collection efficiency of nearly 100%. Through this computer system, which provides data daily, CORREOS monitors the entire trajectory of the different collections carried out each day and obtains information as to their exact time, as well as the arrival of this post at each automatic sorting office.
The letter boxes and sacks containing the mail are identified with their corresponding bar code. This enables the letter carriers to use their portable terminals to register the barcodes of the letter boxes and the sacks that carry the collected mail, as well as other data: the condition of the letterbox, how long the collection took, the time of day when most letters are posted, the most and least used letter boxes, and so on.
At the end of their route, the letter carriers can upload the data from their portable device to a central computer, where the exact time and the sacks collected are registered in a database. This way, any service issues can be dealt with immediately.

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