Tag: Republic of Ireland

Dempsey threatens to remove Irish An Post’s monopoly

Posted by | Oct 14, 2005 | |

The Government is threatening to remove the final part of An Post’s letter post monopoly if the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) goes ahead with industrial action at the troubled State company.

With a ballot already underway for strike action that is likely to disrupt the mail in the busy pre-Christmas period, Government sources said that the Minister for Communications Noel Dempsey was minded to remove the monopoly immediately instead of waiting until an EU directive takes force in 2009.

Such an action would cause severe commercial difficulties for An Post in the long run, as it would free the hand of rival private sector companies to introduce their own mail services in big urban areas.

Despite the difficulties that such action would prompt for An Post, Government sources said the Minister believes that no alternative course is open to him as any intervention in the company’s industrial relations process would be in breach of social partnership.

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An Post silent on union claims of delivery delay

Posted by | Oct 11, 2005 | |

An Post last night refused to confirm or deny claims from the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) that only 71 per cent of post is being delivered the day after posting. Quarterly figures, to be sent to the Communications Regulator (ComReg) by An Post today, will show that the company is falling far short of its target of 94 per cent for next-day deliveries, the CWU claimed yesterday.
The figures for the second quarter of the year had “dropped drastically” from 76 per cent in the first quarter because of the recruitment embargo imposed by the company, CWU spokesman Joe Guinan said. The closure of the manual sorting offices and their replacement with four “automated hubs” had also slowed the service.

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Irish ComReg launches its Strategy Statement for 2005/2007

Posted by | Oct 5, 2005 | |

The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) today issued its second strategy statement outlining ComReg’s views on possible developments in the telecommunications and postal sectors for 2005 to 2007. ComReg is legally obliged to publish a strategy statement every two years setting out its regulatory strategy in order to meet its objectives and functions as set out in the 2002 Communications Regulation Act.

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Express players look to crack the codes

Posted by | Sep 19, 2005 | |

A new postcode system for Ireland, which the government hopes to introduce in the next three years, cannot come too soon, says David Canavan, MD operations and global trade services, northern Europe, FedEx. Every address in Ireland will have a postcode of numbers or a combination of numbers and letters. This will make time-definite deliveries easier, in a country where traffic congestion is an escalating problem and a challenge for express operators in particular. As chairman of the Irish Association of International Express Carriers, which comprises the four major integrators FedEx, TNT, DHL and UPS, Canavan recently met communications minister Noel Dempsey, who is firmly behind the plan. “We [the association] are being consulted on the postcode issue and have until the beginning of next year to produce a recommendation.

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An Post’s solution will only make matters much worse

Posted by | Sep 12, 2005 | |

What is happening at An Post? Losses year after year, suspension of its direct-mail business for five weeks at Christmas and again at election time, repeated assertions that there is no need for postcodes, reduction in quality of service for single-piece mail, and non-payment of sustaining progress to their staff, writes Alex Pigot

Is the company a basket case or on a financial knife-edge?

The answer is emphatically no.

The company is sitting on a huge property portfolio last valued in their balance sheet in 1985 and has just sold its mobile phone top-up companies at a €70 million profit – so its balance sheet is financially solid and there’s cash in hand.

It is not, or at least it should not be, losing money and here’s why.

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