The courier company DHL will not rise the prices of its services and predicts to grow between 3-5% in Argentina this year. In 2001, the company increased by 12% its sales, with 50 branches in the provinces in the country and invested Pesos $11mil in a new plant in Buenos Aires city. This is the largest courier plant in Latin America.
Read MoreArgentine Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich said Thursday the government will begin negotiations with companies over new rates for a wide range of public services. Capitanich said in a press conference that proposals for the new rates would have to be submitted over the next 120 days.
Read MoreThe Mexican Postal Service (Sepomex) and Mexico Telegraph (Telecom) over the next two years will be profoundly restructured, reported Mexico City daily Reforma. Costs will be reduced, the government subsidy will be eliminated, and the workforce will be reduced by 25 percent, with the goal of making the companies’ financially independent before 2005.
Read MoreAmong the Mexican Postal Service’s strategies to pull itself out of financial ruin are plans to offer banking services at its client attention services, and to force private courier companies to comply with the law, said Communications and Transport ministry senior official Jorge Alvarez. The idea would be for the nation’s banks to automate Mexico’s more than 1,800 post offices in order to provide their services and improve the quality of the mail.
Read MoreThe Mexican Postal Service’s (Sepomex) biggest client is private industry, having largely left behind the delivery of private letters and postcards, reported Mexico City daily Reforma.
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