UNIVERSAL MAIL is moving toward placing its own unique stamp on defunct National Mail boxes in Wellington.
Universal Mail has been licensed by failed former postal operator National Mail to use its postboxes for overseas mail.
National Mail’s former managing director Paul Meier, who runs the new company, said between 50 and 60 of National Mail’s 276 blue boxes in Wellington had been reopened.
Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee has unanimously recommended that the Auditor-General undertake a management review of New Zealand Post’s international postal consultancy, Transend.
The committee says that after reviewing Transend’s activities in Europe and South Africa it has a number of concerns and has received wide-ranging evidence suggesting Transend’s management systems need improvement.
The Committee has recommended the Auditor-General undertake an audit of Transend to ensure its policies and procedures are adequate.
New Zealand Post must feel quite at home before Parliament’s finance and expenditure committee. The big State-owned enterprise is being accused of botching one of its overseas contracts — and that is something it is well used to.
For at least a year NZ Post has been kept busy defending its actions in South Africa. In response to a running series of charges that it messed up its operation there and tried to cover its tracks, the State-owned enterprise has had to duck and weave, barely maintaining its position.
New Zealand Post spent more than $3 million on an abortive five-month attempt to establish a European base in a house in Madrid, a parliamentary select committee was told yesterday.
The existence of the house, complete with swimming pool, was revealed by ACT NZ MP Rodney Hide.
He said NZ Post had advised the finance and expenditure committee that it spent $3.023 million on the house office, which opened in October 2000 and closed in February 2001.
Following a tender process and site visit to Exel’s multi-user Trafford Park facilities, PBT Global, a distributor of a range of industrial products, primarily for the construction industry, has awarded their UK warehousing and distribution operations to Exel, the provider of supply chain solutions.
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