Tag: Republic of Ireland

2003 stamp price survey confirms worries on excessive tariffs in Europe

Posted by | Dec 15, 2003 | |

The 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

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Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

Express operator Nightline’s partnership with FedEx, which began in August, is already bearing fruit. “Over 1,000 Nightline customers now have seamless access to the FedEx network, ” says MD John Tuohy. Customers across the republic are now connected to the integrator ‘s EuroOne network and can expect two-day delivery across Asia and nextday or second-morning delivery to the US. Tuohy says FedEx traffic now accounts for 8% of his business, and Nightline has taken on 60 new staff. The FedEx brand is being added to Nightline’s fleet of 200 vehicles and to its depots.

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Price of most RoI overseas mail set to rise

Posted by | Dec 6, 2003 | |

An Post is set to increase the price of most categories of overseas mail in a bid to stem losses in its international division. The price of posting a standard airmail letter from the Republic to another European country (excluding Britain) will increase from 57 cents to 65 cents, while the price for heavier airmail letters will drop from 83 cents to 65 cents

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An Post Resists Pressure for Postal Zip Code

Posted by | Nov 25, 2003 | |

Historians have joined forces with An Post to resist pressure to introduce US and European-style zip codes here. Prof Ruairi O hUiginn, a lecturer at the department of Modern Irish in NUI, Maynooth, told a symposium on the issue that place names were an important part of Irish life which often dated back to Celtic Ireland and our earliest literature. And An Post added that it did not believe that Irish people would be willing to use the codes. The commercial director of An Post, Derek Kickham, told the symposium that while the postal code system would have been valuable if it had been introduced in the ’60s, the technology An Post now had in place meant the system would not be economically justified.

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