Tag: Mail Services

Emirates Post And Emirates Nationals Development Programme Partner To Boost Emiratisation In Mail Sector

Posted by | Feb 4, 2008 | |

Emirates Post Holding Group and Emirates Nationals Development Programme (ENDP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost Emiratisation in the mail sector through a series of measures, including a three-month ‘Postal Diploma’ programme, to be conducted by the Emirates Post Training & Development Centre, Dubai.

The new initiative was unveiled at a press conference addressed by H.E. Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister for Public Sector Development & Chairman of Emirates Post Holding Group, H.E. Ahmed Humaid Al Tayer, Chairman of ENDP, and Mr. Abdulla Al Daboos, President of Emirates Post Holding Group. The joint initiative is in response to the directive of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President & Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on creating new opportunities for Emirati youth in various fields, especially in the private sector.

The MoU seeks to establish a framework for expanding cooperation between Emirates Post Holding Group and ENDP in providing training to Emarati youth in mail-related areas in order to boost Emiratisation. The Postal Diploma project has been designed to raise UAE nationals’ skills and professional capabilities for taking up positions in Emirates Post Holding Group and private sector companies engaged in mail activities.

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Tusk looks to weaken the unions as postal strike looms

Posted by | Feb 3, 2008 | |

Postal workers could strike at any moment to demand wage increases, while the government is drastically seeking a way to diminish the role of trade unions. Five days ago trade unions of Polish Post (PP) submitted its demands to the general director seeking a wage increase of z³.800 gross on average with today named as the deadline for a reply.

Recently, Prime Minister Donald Tusk admitted that the act on trade unions has plenty of flaws, such as the “extreme multitude” of trade unions, which is diminishing the role of unions’ headquarters. A turning point was the strike of miners in the Budryk mine, but the number of strikes in 2007 was high regardless. In total there were 1,736 strikes last year, while in 2006 there were only 27 of them. A road to legal compromise might be difficult, as according to unofficial information the government wants among others to force trade unions to finance themselves with their own contributions or to ban them from having their offices in places of work. “This is an attack on democracy. Work of the trade unions is beneficial to everyone,” said Alfred Bujara, head of commercial sector trade unions. Others added that all governments wanted to change the law, but none of them succeeded, however the largest of them will also present some changes to the existing law.

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India Post fights to retain marketshare in small savings

Posted by | Feb 2, 2008 | |

minimum of seven lakh small accounts during the April-October 2007 period to commercial banks.

This has been primarily due to the postal department’s inability to offer market-related interest rates and the withdrawal of 10pct bonus on monthly income scheme (MIS).
This declining trend is, however, expected to change now.

The government has reintroduced the bonus on MIS from December 2007, albeit at a lower 5pct rate, and is going to make the five-year postal term deposits and senior citizen savings scheme eligible for tax rebate under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act from April 2008.

Small post office savings schemes include MIS (at 8pct interest rate), term deposits and recurring deposits (7.5pct interest), senior citizen savings scheme (9pct interest) and savings bank account (3.5pct interest).

Till November 2007, the fall in number of accounts is significant, especially in MIS and senior citizen savings scheme. MIS collection received the first blow in February 2006 when the government withdrew the 10pct bonus on maturity.

The postal term deposits and senior citizen savings had also failed to compete with commercial banks during the period under review as banks were offering significantly higher interest rate on deposits. For instance, the State Bank of India (SBI) was offering a 9.5pct annual rate for 4-5 years deposits while the postal term deposits offer just about 7.5pct per annum.

According to latest available statistics as of October 2007, the number of live savings accounts with the postal department’s West Bengal circle stood at 1.78 crore. This is compared to 1.85 crore live accounts as of March 31, 2007.

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Twenty's Dataforce unit appointed to Royal Mail data panel (UK)

Posted by | Feb 2, 2008 | |

Twenty PLC said its Dataforce unit has been named as the first company to be appointed to Royal Mail’s newly created data panel.

The marketing services provider added that Dataforce will provide advice on customer retention and loyalty, customer journey mapping and large database work.

Royal Mail’s data panel will eventually be made up of five specialist data suppliers and is aimed at developing new data products and services to increase the effectiveness of mail for its customers. The service went live on Jan 28 2008.

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Latest ‘Future of Mail’ paper: “Mail Trends Update” by Fouad Nader (Adrenale Corp.) and Michael Lintell (Pitney Bowes)

Posted by | Feb 1, 2008 | |

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of press articles and statements from posts predicting that mail volumes would decline. New technologies and process innovations have been introduced, preoccupying researchers and managers in the postal and mailing industries with the impact of accelerating electronic substitution and changing customer behaviors. What are the actual trends that emerge from examining in detail the best information available from key countries? What historical perspectives, trends and emerging patterns may be useful in understanding how mail volumes may evolve in the future? The purpose of this paper is to provide further insight into the key trends identified and discussed in the previous Mail Trends Analyses by comprehensively examining the evolution of mail and analyzing postal volumes along key variables that influence mail demand. This paper builds on the considerable research that followed the original mail trends analysis and was documented in the Background Papers published at www.postinsight.pb.com for the project: “Electronic Substitution for Mail: Models and Results, Myth and Reality.” The paper also takes advantage of recent work in the study of the “Future of Mail”, also on postinsight.pb.com.

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