Tag: Spain

As of today the ONO bill payment service for bills not paid by direct debit is available throughout CORREOS’ network of more than 2,000 computerised offices all over Spain

Under the agreement ONO, a landline telephone, internet and cable television provider with more than 1.9 million customers, joins the many businesses and companies that have put their trust in CORREOS to collect payment of their bills.

The bill payment service provided by CORREOS offers citizens advantages such as the convenience of always finding post office nearby, thanks to the size of the network, as well as their ample opening hours – from 8:30 am until 2:30 pm in offices with morning opening hours and from 8:30 am until 8:30 pm in those offices that are open all day.Offices located in shopping centres provide this service during the same opening hours as the centre, including the public holidays on which the centre is open.

Spanish state-run postal services provider Correos plans to invest 14.2 mln euro (USD 18.2 mln) to buy 1,945 new vehicles in order to renew and increase its fleet, the company said on August 2, 2006.
Of the total, 1.9 mln euro (USD 2.4 mln) will be allocated for 28 trucks of Italian carmaker Iveco and French Renault with a capacity to transport 12 to 14 tonnes. Correos will also buy 320 delivery vans, transporting between 900 kg and 1.2 tonnes, and 315 vans with up to 600 kg cargo capacity.
The company will purchase 1,225 motorcycles of Italian motorcycle manufacturer Piaggio-Vespa-Gilera as well.
Correos targets to renew by 16 pct its total fleet, consisting of some 12,000 vehicles. After the acquisitions, they will be used for an average of less than six years.

José Antonio Amelibia Núñez is the new Sales and Marketing Director of CORREOS, a position he took up on 17 July after being appointed by the president of the Sociedad Estatal Correos y Telégrafos, S.A., José Damián Santiago Martín.

Over nearly 30 years of professional career in the postal company, José Antonio Amelibia has held various positions, particularly in his homeland, the Basque Country, where he was Head of Distribution in San Sebastian, Head of Operations in Guipuzcoa and the Area Director of Zone Three (the Basque Country, La Rioja and Navarra), a post he has held from March 2004 until the present.

Amelibia Núñez, 46, is married with 2 children. She has worked in CORREOS since 1977 and has a degree in Psychology from the UNED; she also has training in economy and finance Management and Marketing as well as in internal Communication.