Tag: Mail Services

Royal Mail goes to court over zonal pricing decision (UK)

Posted by | May 1, 2008 | |

Postcomm received summons that Royal Mail intends to seek a judicial review of the regulator’s decision to reject the company’s recent ‘retail zonal pricing’ application.

Postcomm say the initial application was received in February 2007, studied with great care, and consulted on widely, at Royal Mail’s request. Postcomm rejected the application because it put forward a pricing structure that appeared to have a number of discriminatory features and would have been introduced in a way that would lead to unreasonable changes for its customers. It is now for the court to determine the merits of the case.

Postcomm has not ruled out any future moves towards retail zonal pricing for products outside the universal service should Royal Mail propose an alternative approach that avoids the problems presented by the recent application. Postcomm is generally supportive of pricing that is more reflective of costs.

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TNT Post completes regional postal network through new London and Midlands offices

Posted by | May 1, 2008 | |

TNT Post completed its regional postal network, enabling even more local businesses UK wide to benefit from the deregulated postal market.

TNT Post’s newly launched London and Midlands offices will join TNT Post’s already established businesses in Scotland, the North and South West. This milestone achievement gives TNT Post complete UK postal coverage for SME’s and local businesses enabling the company to offer innovative, high quality and cost effective mailing solutions to businesses both large and small.

The accelerated growth has led to several new appointments and promotions to accommodate the regional expansion. Notably, Charles Neilson joins from TNT Post Doordrop Media to take on the role as divisional managing director for the regional network. Neilson will be responsible for developing the regional businesses to offer further expansion opportunity, particularly in the end-to-end and SME markets.

Last year TNT Post began a phased rollout of its new web-based letter service, TNT-it, to businesses in the North. With the Midlands region next to benefit from TNT-it, the service is designed for small businesses to send letters and documents straight from their PC to TNT Post’s print and fulfilment facilities. As TNT-it removes the need for users to print, fulfil and post documents, time and money are saved by the elimination of the need for businesses to resource stationery, franking machines, stamps and post collection. This allows businesses sending as few as one letter to benefit from the savings and efficiencies that the deregulated market has already made available to companies with larger post volumes.

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Postal Service Wins White House Environmental Awards

Posted by | May 1, 2008 | |

Five U.S. Postal Service environmental initiatives have been recognized by the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive, part of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Two initiatives received the prestigious 2008 Closing the Circle Awards and three received honorable mentions. Since the inception of the program in 1996, the Postal Service has won 39 awards.

The Postal Service’s Vendor Partnership for Envelope Reuse initiative won the Closing the Circle Award for “Waste/Pollution Prevention — Civilian.” This program encourages customers, vendors and business partners to reuse and recycle mailing products. The Postal Service partnered with three companies — MailAgain, Abitibi Paper Retriever, and Ecoenvelope — to create reusable envelopes and make recycling easier for our customers.

Winning the Closing the Circle Award for “Environmental Management Systems — Civilian” was the Postal Service’s Environmental Performance Track Initiative. This award recognizes the organization’s increased participation in EPA’s Performance Track Program in its Northeast and Western Areas. The Performance Track Program acknowledges and drives environmental excellence by encouraging facilities with strong environmental records to go above and beyond their legal requirements.

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Swiss Post International enters India

Posted by | May 1, 2008 | |

Swiss Post said it has tied up with Mail Order Solution to enter the Indian market.

Under the agreement, Mail Order Solution (MOS) will operate as a Swiss Post International sales agent in the country, a release said. MOS provides end-to-end integrated direct marketing solutions in print production and international postal services and distribution.

“MOS is a top-class direct marketing solutions business and Swiss Post is proud to be a part of such an interesting venture,” Swiss Post International Management Ltd’s Director Daniel Baettig said.

“Swiss Post stands for quality and reliability and we hope to grow in strength alongside such a serious partner,” MOS’ Chairman and CEO, Mehul A Desai said.

Swiss Post International offers a range of postal products and services to business customers. With its foothold in India, Swiss Post International now has expanded its international presence into 16 countries and Mumbai is now one of the five locations of the company in Asia.

The other locations in Asia are Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai, the release said.

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Nigeria: New Postal Law Underway – BPE

Posted by | May 1, 2008 | |

The director of information and communication in the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Benjamin Dikki, has revealed that the postal policy and new postal legislation are near completion after both documents were subjected to extensive stakeholder sensitisation.

Making the observation at an interactive meeting last Tuesday, between the Bureau and organised labour on the postal sector reform and the restructuring of NIPOST, Dikki said, “on completion, the final postal bill would be sent to the Ministry of Information and Communications which would forward it to the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

He listed the objectives of the postal reform including; “to grant the postal sector sufficient autonomy to run its own affairs; guarantee all segments of the population access to universal service; provision of quality services which support the Universal Service Obligation (USO); separate between operators, regulator and policy makers; ensure an open, liberalised market with equal opportunity for all competitors; guarantee economic viability of the public postal operator; ensure that the population had access to services according to the technological evolution of the postal service; and ahieve quality standards similar to best international practice.

A statement issued yesterday by the head, public communications, Mr. Chigbo Anichebe, stated that Post Master General, Alhaji Ibrahim Mori Baba, pointed out that his organisation welcomes the envisaged reforms as it is hoped they would strengthen service delivery in the postal sector.

The representative of the minister of Information and Communications, Dr. (Mrs) Ngozika Okeisaibo, explained that the ministry is committed to a smooth restructuring of the postal sector.

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