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Romanian Post has gathered more than 15,000 books in 350 urban post offices for its “A Book Opens a New World” campaign.
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Romanian Post to lay-off staff
Romanian Post is to lay-off large parts of its workforce
Read MorePosta Romana fights for market share
Compania Nationala Posta Romana (Romanian Post Office Company) estimates it will employ more than 35,500 people by the end of this year, 400 more than last year, despite the gradual elimination of 2,650 jobs.
“We will outsource valuable parcel shipping activities to Group 4 Securicor, and 1,100 employees will most likely be taken over by this firm in a year’s time. We’ll also automate mail-processing centres and outsource maintenance and cleaning activities. Overall, we’ll slash 2,650 jobs,” said Mihai Toader, manager of Posta Romana.
However, Toader stated most employees would be moved to other positions, with the number of employees expected to increase constantly in the coming years against turnover growth.
Posta Romana ended last year with turnover worth 1bn RON (312m euros) and forecasts 40 pct turnover growth for this year. First quarter figures confirm this projection, after turnover derived in the first three months increased 47 pct on 2007, and reached 94m euros.
The local election campaign will also encourage the company’s turnover growth.
In particular, Posta Romana redevelopment is being aided by contracts with private firms, and company representatives want to cut the share of contracts sealed with the state in turnover.
Practically, the entire delivery and postal services market has followed an upward trend in recent years.
Read MoreE-POST provides the opportunity of sending and receiving messages via INTERNET
E-POST provides 4 types of communication: ACCOUNT-ACCOUNT; ACCOUNT-POSTAL ADDREESS; PERSON-ACCOUNT; PERSON-POSTAL ADDRESS.
The ACCOUNT-ACCOUNT communication takes place between two account holders, meaning the electronic mailboxes. To send the message, the sender must go to the post office where his account is opened and fill in a form that the operator types in afterwards. The addressee must also go to the post office where his account is opened and request the printing of the messages received in his account against a fee. The tariff is charged according to number of words contained in the message.
Another type of communication is the one between a person, the sender, which has an account and the addressee that don’t. It’s the ACCOUNT-POSTAL ADDRESS communication. In this case, the sender does the same things as above with the only exception that the address is a postal one and the tariff charged. This communication supposes the printing of the message in the destination post office, insertion in the envelope and delivery at the postal address, and optionally, the registration and the electronic proof of delivery. In the destination post office (the closest one to the addressee’s location), prints the message, inserts it into an envelope and delivers it to the indicated address.
Another possible situation: the sender does not have an opened account, but the addressee has. In this case, the sender sends a message from an E-POST post office, by filling in a form indicating the account address of the addressee.
E-POST may be used even in the situation when neither the sender nor the addressee have an opened account. In this case, the sender must go to the E-POST office, fill in a form mentioning the addressee’s address and pay the charges for sending the message, printing, the envelope and delivery and optionally for registration and proof of delivery (AR)
E-POST is actually a hybrid mail service, aiming to meet the customers’ requirements. This service is a clear evidence of the Romanian Post’ endeavor to comply with present development conditions of the communication market
Read MoreRomanian Post price hike criticized
The Romanian Direct Marketing Association (Armad) has criticized Romanian Post’s decision to raise postal prices by up to 60 pct from 1st August.
The direct marketing industry is growing fast in Romania at the moment, according to the financial publication, Bursa, and Armad has hit out strongly at the national postal company, saying the decision is abuse of a dominant position in the market, a breach of EU state aid rules in other words.
Romanian Post, on the other hand, said the price increase was compliant with the law and reflected market conditions. It is, said Bursa, the first price rise for two years and at RON 0.5 (EUR 0.16) letter deliveries were half the real cost to the company.
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