Tag: Switzerland

GATS to grow, postal project sees good returns

Posted by | Oct 18, 2001 | |

Postal operators looking to make savings on the price of international mail delivery have long faced the same three fixed costs: local handling charges, terminal dues and the cost of line-haul.
In April, the Global Alliance of Transportation Systems (GATS), funded by the Swiss Post Office set out to challenge the cost of line-haul by consolidating the mail of a number of postal operators into ULD’s at one hub and then flying them on in unitised containers. Pioneered at Heathrow, the idea was to force down the cost paid to the airlines for small numbers of items by booking larger aggregated volumes.

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UPU wants universal postal services extended to digital world

Posted by | Oct 15, 2001 | |

The posts should extend their universal services to the digital arena, according to the Universal Postal Union director general Thomas Leavey.

“It’s a logical extension in the era of the Internet,” Leavey argued. He heads the Berne-based organization of 189 member countries, the primary forum for cooperation between postal services.

The UPU says that since posts are trusted intermediaries, they can extend their traditional role into the digital domain as well.

Leavey defines the complementary universal services as access to Internet and e-mail at a minimum. To overcome the problem of computer access, the UPU is mooting setting up Internet kiosks in post offices and charging users a small fee. “Someone has to pay. In some cases, governments may very well pay,” Leavey said.

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Universal Postal Union chooses Airclic to enable new postal "Track and trace" service

Posted by | Oct 12, 2001 | |

Universal Postal Union chooses AirClic to enable new postal “track and trace” serviceBlue Bell, Pennsylvania, 9 October, 2001: The Universal Postal Union, the United Nations agency overseeing the world-wide postal service, announced today that it has selected AirClic to enable a new service giving proof of delivery of international parcels and express mail (EMS) items. Using bar codes read by small scanners attached to mobile phones, postal workers will be able to increase the efficiency an…

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