Tag: Mail Services

DPD opens parcel shops at Staples stores

Posted by | Dec 11, 2007 | |

DPD has opened parcel shops at 56 stores of the office supply chain Staples in Germany to further develop its B2C business and broaden its product portfolio. Staples previously cooperated with GLS.

Staples expects to enhance its product portfolio with the new parcel shops, the DVZ transport newspaper reported. Managing director Sönke Feuerherm said Staples could offer customers nationwide parcel deliveries at attractive prices. The price is based on the box size rather than on weight.

“The Staples stores provide first-class locations, good service quality and high customer orientation”, DPD CEO Hans Fluri was cited as saying. The parcel company expected to increase its competitiveness with the new cooperation.

According to the DVZ, DPD agreed a deal with Staples for lower prices than had previously been the case with GLS.

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USPS signs 42 year lease at new commerce centre

Posted by | Dec 10, 2007 | |

The United States Postal Service has signed a 500,000-sf, 42-year lease for a distribution center to be located at the Ave, Aviation and Commerce Center near the Opa-Locka Executive Airport. Terms of the lease agreement–the first signed at the Ave, Aviation and Commerce Center–were not disclosed.

The distribution center, to be located on 30 acres, will be used to sort all the incoming mail to South Florida.

Cpf investment group principal Ernesto Cambo tells GlobeSt.com that construction of the building is expected to begin in January with a March 2009 anticipated completion date. In addition to the USPS facility, cpf is expecting to break ground in January on another 151,000-sf speculative industrial building within the center. Leasing efforts have started for that building, but no leases have yet been signed.

Under development by locally based cpf investment group, the USD 250-million Ave, Aviation and Commerce Center is a 2.6-million-sf master-planned mixed-use park on 178 acres. It will include banks, shops, restaurants, office/flex space, warehouse and distribution facilities and corporate hangars. The project is adjacent to Miami Lakes and close to Route 826 and Interstate 75.

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Springer to write down 600 mln eur on PIN

Posted by | Dec 10, 2007 | |

German publisher Axel Springer SPRGn.DE is preparing around 600 million euros (USD 873.4 million) in writedowns for its mail-delivery unit PIN Group, the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper reported on Monday.

Citing unidentified company sources, the paper reported that Springer plans to close PIN before the end of the year because it lacks some 15 million euros (USD 21.8 million) for expenses such as wages, the paper reported.

Springer did not immediately return two calls from Reuters.

The publisher said last week it is sounding out options for the future of PIN after announcing it plans to cut more than 1,000 jobs in Germany because of a planned minimum wage in Germany for postal delivery workers.

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USPS: Mail holiday packages with care

Posted by | Dec 10, 2007 | |

December is the busiest time of year for mailing and the U.S. Postal Service is helping to make holiday shipping needs a little bit easier. With 20 billion cards, letters and packages expected to be delivered this holiday season, the Postal Service has some tips to help send holiday cheer in a safe, secure manner.

The Postal Service offers free, environmentally friendly Priority Mail and Express Mail boxes and envelopes. These supplies can be ordered at usps.com or picked up at a local Post Office and can be shipped anywhere in the world. But the best consumer value may be Flat Rate Boxes and envelopes. No calculating postage or weighing is needed. Customers pay a flat rate of USD 8.95 no matter the weight of the package or its destination. When a package is ready to be shipped, log on to usps.com/pickup to schedule a free package pickup from home or office.

The Postal Service also offers pre-packaged shipping products, READY POST, sold at local Post Offices for customers unable to find proper mailing boxes and envelopes.

It’s important to remember that packages weighing more than 13 ounces bearing postage stamps must be presented to a letter carrier or retail associate at the Post Office and cannot be dropped in blue collection boxes.

“The Postal Service is making it easier this holiday season to ship to family and friends,” said Delores Killette, vice president and consumer advocate. “These mailing recommendations will help customers send their holiday cheer.”

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Mozambique post offices offer bank services

Posted by | Dec 10, 2007 | |

For the first time in its history, Mozambique’s national postal services utility — Correios de Moçambique — will from next year introduce rural banking services.

The weekly O Pais said in a report on its Sunday online edition that in the first phases, banking services would be opened in Maputo province in the south of the country and in the northern province of Niassa.

Currently the postal service utility operates postal and courier services which are only viable in urban centres.

The utility has been widely ignored by many people because of alleged poor service.

The banking service aims to help the rural population deposit their cash.

In Mozambique, banks and financial institutions are located in urban centres and most people in rural areas resort to keeping their money in homes or have to travel long distances to the nearest urban centres.

However, there are several non-governmental organisations operating banking clubs in the some of the country’s rural areas.

The report said the modernisation and diversification of the services of the national postal services represented one of the biggest challenges the parastatal faced as it aimed to reform its services.

Sources in the ministry of transport and communication were quoted by the paper as saying postal services authorities were in the process of obtaining operating licences and training required staff for the banking sector.

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