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IPC UNEX results 2004

Posted by | Mar 4, 2005 | |

External Quality of Service Monitoring,Improving the Quality of International Mail.
Quality of service among Postal operators in Europe continued at a high level in 2004 in spite of restructuring and change management demands on postal operations preparing for postal liberalisation. Overall, IPC members delivered 93.7 per cent of first class international letters in Europe within three days of posting (J+3), and 98.4 per cent within five days (J+5). Average delivery time was just 2.2 days.
Quality of service performance was measured by IPC’s UNEX end-to-end monitoring
system. The results show that both speed (J+3) and reliability (J+5) were again far above the European Union’s (EU) performance objectives for delivery of 85 per cent of intra-EU mail within three days, and 97 per cent within five days.
P:LibraryPostalIPC 2004_UNEX_Results.pdf

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Norwegian postal monopoly ends in two years

Posted by | Mar 3, 2005 | |

In two years the Norwegian Postal Service (Posten) will no longer have monopoly on the distribution of letters in Norway. There is a majority in Parliament in favour of a Government proposal to end the monopoly by 2007. The Government states that it is important to maintain a high degree of service, and stipulates that mail shall be distributed six days a week, the same as today.
Also, there must be a unified nationwide postage for letters.

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Pro-Liberalisers urge more vigilance from national regulators

Posted by | Mar 2, 2005 | |

National regulators need to be more zealous in applying the 2002 postal services directive, the pro-liberalisation Free and Fair Post Initiative (FFPI) says. “The current situation is far from satisfactory in most member states” as anti-trust probes are “especially rare”, FFPI president Philippe Bodson said in a recent open letter to the European Commission. He wants regulators to pay more attention to price-fixing and cross-subsidisation, the practice where postal operators use profits made in the monopolised sector to fund parts of its business competing on the open market. Mr Bodson said the Commission’s “track record in this field is encouraging” and urged it to continue actively investigating anti-competitive behaviour.

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Good profitability and increased revenues lead to earnings of more than NOK 1 billion for Norway Post

Posted by | Feb 21, 2005 | |

The Norway Post Group’s preliminary results for 2004 show earnings before tax of NOK 1,079 million, up NOK 623 million from 2003. This development is due both to increased revenues and successful efficiency initiatives. “The result for 2004 shows that Norway Post has developed a profitable postal organisation that is ready to meet full competition from 2007. We have restructured operations by developing Norway Post’s strengths, extending our range of services by combining electronic information and physical distribution, and have made us more capable of resistance,” says Norway Post chief executive Kaare Frydenberg.

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Norway Post buys a stake in OptiMail

Posted by | Jan 1, 2005 | |

With its purchase of 7% of Optimail, Norway Post has extended its stake in the swedish mail market. It is already a part owner of CityMail Sweden. Citimail owns 11.7% of Optimail and the two private mail companies operations are linked: Optimail sorts international and domestic mail for distribution by CityMail while Optimails SwedMail business handles mail in the Swedish markets.

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