Tag: Switzerland

Postal Industry Launches Global Carbon Measurement System

Posted by | Jun 2, 2008 | |

The International Post Corporation (IPC) has launched an environmental measurement and monitoring system providing a common carbon measurement and reporting framework for the global postal industry.

The launch and formal adoption by IPC member postal operators including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK, took place at IPC’s Annual Conference 2008 in La Chapelle en Serval, France on 30 May. The event was attended by CEOs from Europe, the Asia-Pacific and North America.
The system provides the postal industry with a transparent, scientific, sector specific carbon management and measurement system based on the requirements of international best practice standards, such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, DJSI, FTSE4Good, ISO 14001, and current best practice from the corporate environment. The system evaluates performance through the application of a scoring system that grades performance in ten carbon management proficiency areas and in key numeric carbon efficiency indicators.

The environmental measurement and monitoring system was also built on best practice as exemplified by customers of IPC members and is highly responsive to customer requirements and interests in measuring their own carbon footprint in their value chains.

The system will be piloted in 2008, with results from the first round of measurement expected to be announced in November 2009.

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Good quarterly results for Swiss Post

Posted by | May 29, 2008 | |

Swiss Post grew steadily in the first three months of 2008. Group profit for the first quarter was CHF 228 m, exceeding CHF 200 million for the third successive year (Q1 2007: CHF 281 m). The decline from 2007 is due to lower results in logistics activities resulting from increasing cost pressures and fewer real estate sales. Consolidated equity as at 31 March 2008 amounted to CHF 2,356 m after appropriation of profit (31 December 2007: CHF 2,470 m).
Operating income was CHF 2,173 m, not far behind the level achieved in the first quarter of the previous year (CHF 2,185 m). Over two thirds of this was generated by the PostMail, PostLogistics and PostFinance Group units.
At CHF 76 m, PostFinance’s operating result is in line with last year’s figure, making it one of the few nationally active financial institutions in Switzerland to have retained its good results despite the crisis in the financial market. Operating income for the first quarter increased significantly to CHF 512 m (Q1 2007: CHF 445 m). The main reason for this is the higher-than-average increase in customer deposits to CHF 45.8 bn (December 2007: CHF 43.7 bn). In the first three months of 2008, 53,000 new accounts were opened – almost 50% more than in the first quarter of 2007 (37,000 new accounts). 1 USD = 1.04507 CHF

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24th UPU Congress: July 2008

Posted by | May 28, 2008 | |

International decision-makers will participate in a high-level debate on 25 July 2008 focusing on the theme “The postal sector, an essential component of the global economy”.
The conference will set the tone for 24th Universal Postal Congress, which opens in Geneva, Switzerland, on 23 July and lasts until 12 August 2008.
Three panel discussions on how postal services can work effectively in an era of globalization, the challenges and the new frontiers for the postal sector in an ever-changing world, and partnerships for the global supply chain will be held throughout the day.

“The general debate will be one of the highlights of Congress and particularly important, strategically, for the entire postal community. Indeed, it represents an opportunity for UPU members as well as postal stakeholders the world over to exchange insights on the future of the postal sector. The debate aims to confirm the sector’s appropriate positioning in view of the world’s economic reality, the new issues affecting the sector, and the UPU’s next four-year strategy,” says UPU Director General Edouard Dayan.

Journalist Muriel Siki, from the Télévision Suisse Romande, and Professor Matthias Finger, from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, will lead the round table discussions.
With two months to go before the 24th UPU Congress opens at the Geneva International Conference Centre, preparations for the event are going well. Some 1,500 delegates from the UPU’s 191 member countries are expected to attend the Congress, held only every four years. The international postal meeting will also draw hundreds of observers and participants from international organizations and stakeholders from the postal sector at large.

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EPFL – New master's for future postal leaders

Posted by | May 28, 2008 | |

Launched on 28 April, the Executive Master in Postal Leadership at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne – Switzerland, is an advanced programme of continuing education, specially designed to address postal issues through an industry-wide, multi-stakeholder approach. This part-time programme is intended for senior postal managers with 10 to 15 years’ technical or commercial experience. The first intake comprises 10 students from six countries of Africa, Asia and Europe.

The UPU supports this training as part of the memorandum of understanding it signed with the EPFL in 2006, which aims to promote research and education in the postal field. In this connection, the UPU Director General, Edouard DAYAN, and a UPU economist, José ANSON, led two sessions on 5 May in Lausanne. Mr. DAYAN spoke about the important role of multilateralism in postal sector development in the current context of globalization, and about migration and the development of trade by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, while José ANSON presented various models for postal sector development in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and the emerging Asian countries. Mr. DAYAN expressed his delight at the conducting of exchanges with students from around the world, and noted the fruitful collaboration between the UPU and the EPFL. Competition, regulation, the universal service obligation and innovation will be on the agenda of forthcoming sessions. In addition to postal issues, increased emphasis will be placed on management. Consequently, this master’s programme may be regarded as a sort of postal MBA. By the end of this training, participants will have acquired the skills to assume management responsibilities with public and private postal operators, regulatory authorities, governments, suppliers and strategic partners.

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Swiss Post launches parcel pickup service

Posted by | May 26, 2008 | |

Swiss Post Swiss Post has launched a fee-based service for the pickup of inland addressed parcels of private customers and small businesses.

The new pickup service can be ordered online via the internet and includes collection of a maximum of five parcels per day from an address which does not necessarily need to be the same as the sender’s address.

The service fee depends on the amount of parcels. Swiss Post is offering introductory prices until the end of the year: collection of one parcel costs euro 2,80 instead of euro 3,-, collection of two parcels cost euro 3,70 and collection of three to five parcels cost euro 5,55 instead of euro 6,20.

The new service complements the internet solution named WebStamp introduced by Swiss Post two years ago. With WebStamp, customers can stamp and personalise their shipments via the internet. The parcel pickup service enables private and business customers to handle all their shipments from home or the office.

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