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Correos manages mail sorting through the Iris 6

Posted by | Jul 15, 2008 | |

Correos will manage mail sorting and sales with a single IT system, the IRIS 6. It is a more agile management system that simplifies the operating set-up used so far, as it take the place of or integrates a dozen different systems used up to now to manage one or several products included in the public postal operator’s global offer.
With the new IRIS 6, Correos receives correspondence and parcels, sends telegrams and faxes, manages P.O. boxes, the sale of products, and the array of services supplied by the office network.
The IRIS 6, is now operating as the only management system in the entire current CORREOS network of 2,226 offices and 57 Sorting Offices. The system serves almost 7,000 users constantly during office hours, making an average 18 million admissions and sales.
This single management system is part of CORREOS’ INTEGRA Plan, which includes the array of ICT initiatives promoted by the public postal operator to modernise its management and offer a higher-quality, more efficient postal service. The IRIS 6 will improve information support in current and future processes and will provide better service for the postal company’s customers. It will also enable the Company’s Office Network activity to be transparently and integrally gauged in real time.

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International Freight Industry to shift from air transport to sea and rail

Posted by | Jul 15, 2008 | |

Australia Post’s Managing Director, Graeme John, foresees cutbacks on flights and a shift towards sea and rail deliveries with regard to the annual meeting of the Kahala Posts Group last week.

John said that growth in international freight from consumer goods such as electronics had been managed on a “just in time” basis, with air delivery preferred to other means of transport due to its speed advantage. But that approach was no longer viable as global warming would have an enormous influence on the postal industry worldwide increasing the pressure to shift towards less environmentally-damaging modes of delivery.

The Kahala Posts Group (KPG) which is the alliance of nine national postal administrations in Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Spain, France and Britain, was founded five years ago and named after a resort the members stayed at during their founding meeting in Hawaii. The postal operators have since launched an upgraded, guarantee-based international service between their respective countries and territories.

Therefore, Kahala Group focused instead on reliability of delivery. But to keep the reliability of the service, the Kahala members had to upgrade their tracking systems. It also required the creation of a “delivery calculator”, a database of eight billion postcodes that allows a customer to walk into any postal outlet, list their destination and be told a precise time window during which a parcel would be delivered, Brisbane Times further reported.

While the private couriers already offered that service and faster delivery, the Kahala members undercut their prices by 40 pct to 50 pct to stay competitive in price.

John further said that a worsening economic environment could prompt a trend to slower “deferred” delivery services.

The Kahala partnership is also moving beyond postage, with Australia Post, China Post and the US Postal Service preparing to launch a group-owned money transfer service to compete against Western Union, Brisbane Times added.

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Correos invests in new sorting equipment

Posted by | Jul 10, 2008 | |

Correos has invested EUR 4.7 million in acquiring 15,000 new sorting cages to be used for sortation, internal transportation and distribution of parcels between different postal divisions to improve the company’s delivery service. The cages will be equipped with RFID control tags.

The acquisition of this equipment is part of Correos’ modernisation programme aimed at simplifying the transportation of mail and parcels. It is integrated in the “Automation Plan” of the company drawn up to improve the distribution quality.

This investment in new transport and storage equipment is expected to make the distribution of parcels and freight in general more efficient and to simplify the working processes in the big logistics centres of the company. These include 17 automated sorting hubs, 38 postal handling centres and 57 mass volume injection points in addition to about 1,800 distribution units and 100 special services centres used for the delivery of express shipments.

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Postal chief sees freight returning to rail and sea (Australia)

Posted by | Jul 7, 2008 | |

The international freight industry will face increasing pressure to cut back on flights and revert to sea and rail deliveries because of environmental concerns, the head of Australia Post predicts.
Australia Post’s managing director, Graeme John, who will be chairman of an annual meeting this week in Queensland of nine of the world’s biggest postal groups, said the problem of global warming would have an increasing influence on the way the global postal industry is run.
Mr John said growth in international freight from consumer goods such as electronics had been managed on a “just in time” basis, with air travel preferred to other forms of transport because of its speed advantage. But that approach was no longer viable.
The postal groups meeting this week – Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Spain, France and Britain – are members of the Kahala Post Group, a consortium created five years ago to help them compete with private freight companies.
Mr John instigated the consortium because he “wanted to do something about the dominance of the DHLs and the FedExs and UPSs in the international parcel network”, as did other former monopoly postal groups.
The Kahala group – named after a resort the members stayed at during their founding meeting in Hawaii – conceded they could not compete with the private companies on speed, so instead focused on reliability of delivery.
But to guarantee that reliability the Kahala members had to upgrade their tracking systems.
It also required the creation of a “delivery calculator” – a database of eight billion postcodes that allows a customer to walk into any postal outlet, list their destination and be told a precise window during which a parcel would be delivered.
While the private couriers already offered that certainty, and faster delivery, the Kahala members undercut their prices by 40 per cent to 50 per cent.
As well as pressure to shift towards less environmentally-damaging modes of transport, Mr John said a worsening economic environment could prompt a trend to slower “deferred” delivery services.
The Kahala partnership is also moving beyond postage, with Australia Post, China Post and the US Postal Service preparing to launch a group-owned money transfer service to compete against Western Union.

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