Tag: Swiss Post

Votes show evidence of strong resistance to privatisation projects

Posted by | Sep 25, 2001 | |

Over the past few months, Swiss political views on privatisation have undergone profound changes. Several right-wing politicians have begun to reject the idea, and the conservative reaction to the US terrorist attacks has come at a critical time. Apart from airline Swissair, parliament is considering the privatisation of the electricity market, national telecoms operator Swisscom and national postal services group La Poste. Consensus on these matters is proving very hard to find.

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Swiss national council refuses to hinder post office closures

Posted by | Sep 18, 2001 | |

The Swiss national council has refused to deal immediately with a motion proposed on Monday requesting a moratorium on the restructuring of the post office until a new mandate for services is accepted by parliament. The proposal would have had a good chance of success if it had been dealt with on the first day of the parliamentary session. Tabled in June, it was approved by 93 national councillors.

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Mercury Int using Swiss Post subsidiary GATS

Posted by | Aug 15, 2001 | |

British mail consolidation firm Mercury International has become the latest organisation to take advantage of the Swiss Posts subsidiary GATS postal delivery network by the opening of a Swiss Post office of exchange at its Heathrow International sorting office.

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Deutsche Post plays pass the Swiss parcel

Posted by | Jul 20, 2001 | |

Deutsche Post (Switzerland) AG, a fully owned subsidiary of Europe’s largest postal
service provider DPWN, is a public limited company under Swiss law and specialises in parcel logistics. It was founded in autumn 1991 by the merger of two Swiss parcel logistics operators, quickstep parcel service AG and Qualipac AG.
Under the product name Swisspack, Deutsche Post (Switzerland) Euro Express offers a nationwide, timedefined parcel delivery service for consignments up to 31.5 kg in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The parcels are delivered by a fleet of nearly 400 vehicles via several modern automated hubs (we have such hubs at Pratteln, Regensdorf and Altishofen, for example).
With another of our products, the Europremium service, shipments (import I export) of up to 800 kg per pallet are delivered to and from Switzerland to some twenty European countries.
When we entered this market in 1992, door-to-door pick-up services and a track&trace system for parcels were still completely new ideas. Since then, we have continued to refine our IT systems.

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Swiss Post between growing and saving

Posted by | Jun 22, 2001 | |

The Swiss Post made a net profit for the year 2000 of CHF 6.022 billion. This represented a slight increase of 5.6% over the previous financial year. However operating expenses were up too. With a profit of CHF 118 million, the Swiss Post was able to present positive business results for each its three years as an independent operation

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