Tag: Spain

Correos – Post office electronically tags letters, parcels

Posted by | Mar 14, 2007 | |

The post office is electronically tagging some letters and parcels to make sure they get to their intended recipients.

In the first scheme of its kind in Europe, Correos has begun to electronically tag the mail to cut costs and improve efficiency.

The system, which is being used in a pioneering project involving 10,000 letters a month, involves tagging mail with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to allow it to be tracked electronically.

The Spanish daily El Pais reported on Wednesday the system may be expanded.

Correos has spent one million euros installing 1,900 antennas and 330 tag readers at 16 automated mail sorting centres around the country

It plans to use the system mainly with parcel services.

In an effort to dispel concerns of a Big Brother-type scheme, Correos says no personal information about the sender or the recipient is exchanged.

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GeoPost raises stake in Seur to 19.6%

Posted by | Mar 13, 2007 | |

La Poste’s international express subsidiary GeoPost has raised its stake in Spain’s Seur group through their joint venture, Seur-GeoPost, buying Seur’s Santander franchise.

The acquisition of Seur Santander, which turned over EUR 7 million last year and employs 83 staff, is the seventh franchise bought by Seur-GeoPost, the company 60% owned by GeoPost. According to Seur, quoted in the El País newspaper, the joint venture’s purchase of the Santander operation consolidated the alliance between the two groups and represented a reinforcement of the development of Seur in the Cantabrian region of Spain.

Seur, with turnover of EUR 574 million in 2005, is one of the leading express companies in Spain, where the market is growing at about 8% a year and is currently worth some EUR 6.6 billion in revenues.

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Correos using radio to track packages

Posted by | Mar 13, 2007 | |

Spanish postal company Correos is to use a system of computer chips embedded in packets to identify their location using a radio identification system.

The chips are embedded in the RFID stickers placed on the items, and a trial of the system has shown that 10,000 packets were identified correctly.

The company has invested one million euros in the project, and now it will be used firstly in the company’s messenger service, before being extended to other items.

Correos currently handles 5 billion items a year and delivers post to 19 million addresses a day.

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GeoPost strengthens its presence in Spain with the acquisition of SEUR-SANTANDER

Posted by | Mar 12, 2007 | |

GeoPost has just acquired the SEUR-Santander franchise (Province of Cantabria).

This operation was made possible through the joint-venture SEUR GeoPost (60% held by GeoPost SA and 40% by SEUR SA), which has a turnover for a full 12 months in excess of euro230 million.

Located in the Cantabria region, Northern Spain, the Santander franchise, employs around 80 people, and has a turnover of almost euro7 million per year.

“This acquisition strengthens SEUR GeoPost’s position in Northern Spain” explains Yves Delmas, CEO of SEUR GeoPost. Following the acquisition of a series of franchises since 2004, SEUR GeoPost now manages eight franchises in Spain: Madrid, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Soria, Gerona, Baix de Llobregat, Granollers and, recently, Santander. With the acquisition of the Santander franchise GeoPost raises its stake to 19.6%.in its partner’s capital, SEUR
Spain therefore asserts its position as one of key players of the GeoPost group’s development in Southern Europe.

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Correos Post Offices renew ISO 9001 certificate

Posted by | Mar 12, 2007 | |

A total of 1,953 post offices of Correos now have the certification ISO 9001, a seal that credits the quality of the service of delivery of postal shipments. The vast majority of Post Offices have renewed their seal of quality obtained in 2005 with the other 156 given to newly formed Post Offices.

The ‘System of Quality Management of the Delivery Process in the Office’ was implanted in 2005, after putting 1,797 Postal Offices under an integral process of internal audits in which the company/signature certifier Bureau Veritas Quality International, BVQI, stated that the system of management used by Correos in these units for the shipments’ delivery fulfilled all the exigencies and ratios of quality that demands European norm ISO 9001:2000.

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