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Postal Professionals Gather for Forum in St. Petersburg

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

The growing competition that traditional postal services face against new information technologies, the liberalization of the industry and its survival in the internet era are all topics set to be discussed in St. Petersburg starting Tuesday, when postal industry professionals from around the world gather at the Pochtovaya Troika event.

The postal industry forum, which ends Thursday, is held every two years and this year, organizers say, the event will be particularly significant for the industry as it is held between two important international events — the Strategic Conference in Dubai of the year 2006 and the Nairobi Congress — scheduled for 2008.

The forum’s program is planned in such a way as to become a logical follow-up to discussions and debates that are expected to start during the Strategic Conference in Dubai; in addition, it is a part of the communication plan of the Strategic Planning Group of the UPU, chaired by the Russian Federation, the website continues.

For the first time, this year the forum will become “strategic,” which will be reflected in the event’s agenda, Russian Minister for Information Technologies and Communications Leonid Reiman — due to take part in the forum’s opening ceremony — said in a welcome note to guests and participants of Pochtovaya Troika.

With the development of new information technologies including the internet, communication through the means of the simple letter has increasingly become a thing of the past. But contrary to the popular belief that the post service will be obsolete in the foreseeable future, industry experts are positive and say postal services will always find a market.

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Russian post could break under rising salaries?

Posted by | Mar 16, 2007 | |

According to forecasts, Russian Post’s losses will be some 6bln rubles (USD 230mln) in 2007, despite the fact their incomes will grow by about 20% from 58bln rubles (USD 2,2bln) to 70bln rubles (USD 2,7bln). This was announced by Igor Sirtsov, the company’s General Director during the CeBIT exhibition. He said the company’s losses will grow if it continues increasing the employee’s salaries without any compensation from the government for postal services.
Mr. Sirtsov admitted that Russian Post ended 2006 with considerable losses for the company, however refused to mention the figure (the company announced earlier its losses would be some 2bln rubles or USD 77mln). In 2005 the company announced 100mln rubles revenues.
The post’s head said the Russian Federal Tariff Service is now considering two ways to change the tariff policy. He added that the first way is to increase tariffs and the second – to receive support from the government.
Despite all the problems Russian Post is continuing its development. The company intends to enter foreign markets. And the first in the company’s list is the German market, where Russian Post intends to open an office soon. Igor Sirtsov said they studied thoroughly the experience of their foreign collogues in tuning the postal traffic. The company will act on its own and offer its services to the Deutsche Post and other large German companies on the market. The company say the work results in Germany will show if it is worth opening similar offices in other countries with large Russian diasporas, like Israel for instance.

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Russian Post gives stodgy money orders a boost

Posted by | Aug 9, 2004 | |

Russian Post says implementation of the CyberDengui or Cyber Money Order program has significantly cut the delivery time and cost of money orders.

The Cyber Money Order scheme has reportedly enabled the post to cut the fees for postal money orders by 35percent on average. With CyberDengui, money order forms and payment data are transmitted via computers.

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Russian Post boosts image in cyberspace

Posted by | Feb 24, 2004 | |

The Russian Post is now opening a completely new page in its history. These were the words of Igor Syrtsov, general director of the postal service that has traditionally been seen as a weak state system unable to seriously affect how its work is organized and famous for considerably low service quality.

Syrtsov spoke of revamping the Russian Post at the unveiling of its CyberMoney project. The project, officially launched late last month, forms a unified federal system of electronic postal money orders and was initiated by the Communications Ministry and the Electronic Russia program.

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