Tag: Mail Services

Online health check initiative for Royal Mail staff

Posted by | Mar 10, 2008 | |

Royal Mail has launched two schemes to improve the health and wellbeing of its 180,000-strong employees.

An online health checking and assessment service will let staff analyse their lifestyles and design improvement plans by accessing information on a range of areas, from nutrition to stress and exercise.

The organisation is also recruiting of a team of health trainers who will help workers to improve their health through advice and practical support.

Royal Mail is one of the leading organisations in the UK in terms of providing occupational health support to its workforce. Absenteeism at the group has fallen from 7% to 5% in the past three years.

Dr Steve Boorman, Royal Mail director of corporate responsibility, said: “As the government increasingly looks to employers to promote and sustain the health and wellbeing of UK workers, our experience provides a useful benchmark for organisations and businesses looking to reduce the impact of absence on their operations.”

Ben Willmott, employee relations adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said: “These two initiatives show that Royal Mail is serious about proactively supporting employee health rather than simply managing employee absence.”

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USPS.com Week showcases convenience, depth of postal service products

Posted by | Mar 10, 2008 | |

Conduct Postal Service business with the click of a mouse, without leaving the house. Or office.

The U.S. Postal Service website, usps.com, makes it even easier for busy business owners and harried consumers to save time. More than 1 million people visit the website every day. To highlight the quick, easy and convenient products and services available online, the Postal Service hosts “USPS.com Week” through March 14.

USPS.com Week lets the Postal Service deliver some of its most convenient, easy-to-use solutions in time for the spring mailing season — IRS deadlines, Mother’s Day, graduations, weddings, anniversaries and Father’s Day, said Anita Bizzotto, chief marketing officer and executive vice president.

The Postal Service’s website offers nearly three dozen services and products to help small business owners and consumers. Customers can: Pay postage and print labels, Request free package pickup, Send shipments around the world, Track packages and confirm deliveries, Design customized postage, Order free, environmentally friendly packaging, Manage mail.

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Royal Mail – pension deal is best we can offer (UK)

Posted by | Mar 10, 2008 | |

The Communication Workers Union and Royal Mail are still in disagreement over plans to introduce reforms to the pension scheme on April 1st 2008.

Royal Mail says that the increasing cost of maintaining the pension fund comes as the business faces intensifying competition in the open postal market with one in five of all letters now collected by rival companies, while mail volumes continue to fall and electronic communications increase. Royal Mail is currently making annual payments of around GBP 850 million to cover both ongoing contributions and the funding of the pension fund deficit

The CWU, in a letter to union representatives, said that it recognised that there is strong opposition to ending the Final Salary Scheme and to moving retirement to age 65.

The CWU said it was committed to listening to the views expressed during the consultation and that Royal Mail had moved ahead with a change to the pension scheme without allowing a proper consultation and ballot to take place. On that basis it would recommend that Royal Mail’s plans be rejected.

The union is asking the government and Trustees to “find alternative and more acceptable solutions.”

It also said that if Royal Mail secure agreement from the Trustees it is likely that Royal Mail would proceed with its decision from the 1st April, in which case, if CWU members supported a rejection of the company’s plans in the Consultative Ballot, the CWU would intensify its campaign.

No mention was made of industrial action or an alternative proposal, other than that one should be sought. The union insisted that any changes introduced by Royal Mail were reversible.

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Postal TrendWatch Q4 07

Posted by | Mar 10, 2008 | |

As of September 30, 2007, the Postal Service completed its first full quarter operating under its new rate structure, which was implemented on May 14, 2007. In a continuation of previous trends, First Class Mail volume declined, while Standard Mail volume increased.

Meanwhile, USPS’s year-end reports revealed significant financial setbacks, which the Service attributed to benefit-funding requirements of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. Given the 10-year duration of those funding requirements, this problem is likely to continue. As a result, the Postal Service will need to continue increasing productivity and cutting costs to meet this requirement under the law’s new rate-cap provisions.

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Emirates Post plans aggressive expansion ahead of share offer

Posted by | Mar 10, 2008 | |

Enjoying strong profit and growing by 20 per cent annually, Emirates Post has turned its focus on expansion plans abroad.

Abdulla Ibrahim Al Daboos, Vice-Chairman and President of Emirates Post Holding Group and Chairman of Emirates Post, sat down with Emirates Business to discuss the group’s diverse business interests and its plans for the future, including acquiring a fleet of aircraft and starting joint ventures with remittance firms overseas.

Looking beyond traditional domestic mail processing, Al Daboos is working to turn Emirates Post into a successful international brand.

How was Emirates Post’s performance last year and what are your expectations for 2008?

No doubt we have made a lot of progress since 2001 when Emirates Post was established as a commercial entity under the UAE Government. The services we have provided so far have been very helpful to the community. Emirates Post made Dh190 million net profit for the year 2007, and we expect a 20 per cent growth from our national operations. If we acquire international operations, we can expect another 20 per cent growth.

What measures has Emirates Post been taking to prepare to move outside the UAE?

We had to think of expansion to our operations and services beyond the UAE borders. We divided our strategy into three categories: financial, express and logistic services. We have already developed these, but more on the national level, and we can use this as our foundation to go regionally and internationally.

We are re-engineering a lot of the processes currently taking place in the government, semi-government and private sectors by evaluating how they conduct their businesses and interact with their customers and mail management. But we need to work on many issues such as proper management, proper IT infrastructure and liquidity so we can succeed internationally.

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