Payment Channel Strategies for Accession Posts: _x000b_Perspectives, Challenges, Opportunities
Postal Strategies in the New Europe of 25
BvDP Conference in association with Arthur D. Little
13/14TH May 2004 Vienna
Presentation by Tim Walsh, Pitney Bowes
P:LibraryPostalPBowes T Walsh pres Payment Channel Strategies for Accession Posts May 04.ppt
Between 2002 and 2003, employment in the postal sector has decreased by 6.09 percent, that is 108, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO).
Read MoreThe postal service has been showing signs of inefficiency for quite some time but the way mail was handled over the Christmas period showed serious faults and strengthened the general view that there is need for a serious review of the service. Turning the posts department into a company was meant to make the postal service more, not less, efficient. At least that is what privatisation is expected to deliver. In the case of the posts, it has failed to do this.
Reasons given by the chief executive officer for the fact that Maltapost was “caught on the wrong foot” over the festive period only helped to confirm the company’s bad planning. The CEO, Robert Lake, gave as factors insufficient time to settle down to changes launched in September, a different mailing pattern than that anticipated by the company, late mailing by customers and the late arrival of overseas mail, as well as extended holidays granted to staff.
Read MoreThe Free and Fair Post Initiative (FFPI) today released its third EU stamp price survey. The study, which this year also covers the ten new EU Member States, confirms the trend towards price increases and highlights the remarkable gaps that exist among current Member States and between them and the accession countries. The FFPI’s research shows that the wide price differences registered in 2002 have not been reduced and that tariffs have in most States registered further raises. In 11 out of 15 current EU Member States stamp prices have been increased in the past year. In addition, requests for price
reviews have been filed by postal operators in some countries where decisions are still pending and will likely be taken in 2004.
Includes stamp prices in the EU-25 for basic domestic letters & EU Stamp Price Chart – Prices in Euro Cents
Report for European Commission by WIK: Quality of Service Objectives, Performance & Measurement Appendices: member states, accession countries, stakeholders view:
Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Ireland, Spain, Sweden, UK, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Turkey
P:LIBRARYPostalEC Postal StudiesQofS appendices, members, accession & stakeholders views.pdf
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