Taking into account the high number of spanish visitors in Portugal, Payshop has extended its pay –as –you-go mobile phone service to other phone networks as Movistar, Orange, Yoigo, Lebara or Happy Móvil. from now , Spanish visitors can top up their cell phones with 5 euros up to 150 euros.
Read MoreThe Spanish post operator Correos increased profits last year by 5.2 pct and is extending its portfolio with an upgraded parcel service. Correos closed 2007 with a pre-tax profit of EUR 149.6 million, a rise of 5.2 pct on the previous year. Revenues were up by 4.4 pct to EUR 2.1 billion.
Mail volumes rose by 2.2 pct, including election-related post, based on more added-value mail products. The Spanish postal operator said the profit figure confirmed its positive development over the last three years and its solid financial position in an increasingly competitive market.
Correos concluded a four-year programme of EUR 1 billion investment in technology, infrastructure and operations last year. In 2007, it invested EUR 233 million in areas such as infrastructure modernisation and new technology for mail operations.
Correos said it will shortly launch an upgraded domestic express parcel service under the name Postal Exprés Nacional. This service is designed for urgent parcel deliveries, signed for by addressees, with a delivery time of no more than 24 hours for most destinations. Although primarily for business customers, it will also be available to consumers.
Read MoreThe Spanish post operator Correos increased profits last year by 5.2 pct and is extending its portfolio with an upgraded parcel service. Correos closed 2007 with a pre-tax profit of EUR 149.6 million, a rise of 5.2 pct on the previous year. Revenues were up by 4.4 pct to EUR 2.1 billion.
Read MoreSpanish postal operator Correos and the Pardo-Valcarce Foundation have renewed a contract which will continue to see employees with special needs, repairing, maintaining and washing equipment used by Correos employees including crash helmets, mail bags and plastic containers.
Correos has been working with the Foundation for 16 years as part of it’s Corporative Social Responsibility plan. Correos continues to support the use of people with physical and mental disabilities.
In 2007, a total of 59 young people with disabilities were employed with the Occupational Factory in conjunction with support from the Special Center of the Pardo-Valcarce Foundation.
In recent years many containers that were made from fabric or rafia have been replaced with plastics, all of which which require regular cleaning. The cleaning unit has seen 844,938 washed trays, 15 pct more than in 2006. The cleaning is to remove bacteria, fungi and to reduce the risk of diseases.
Read MoreThe Consultative Committee of the UPU has just welcomed a new member: the Latin American Association of Private Posts and Postal Operators (ALACOPP). This association, which is made up of private operators from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay, analyzes opportunities and challenges in the postal sector in order to increase the market for all industry players. The highly fragmented postal market in Latin America is made up of public operators and a large number of private entreprises.
According to ALACOPP’s Executive Director, Marcela MARON: “The challenge before us is for Latin America’s private operators to be successfully integrated into the work of the UPU, and for public and private operators to work together in our region to develop the postal sector as a whole, in order to improve the quality of service.”
The UPU Consultative Committee gives postal players other than public postal operators and regulators a voice in the organization’s deliberations. It consists of non-governmental organizations representing customers, delivery service providers, workers’ organizations, suppliers of goods and services to the postal sector and other organizations that have an interest in international postal services, including direct marketers, private operators, international mailers, philatelic associations and publishers.
As well as being the 25th member of the UPU Consultative Committee, ALACOPP is an observer member of the Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal (PUASP).
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