Union Postale 2005 no 3
Union Postale 2005 no 3
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Letter prices in Europe
Comparison of letter prices for 27 countries
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Swiss Die Post to exercise option for stake in Liechtensteinische Post
Switzerland’s postal operator Die Post wants to exercise its option for a 25 pct stake of its Liechtenstein counterpart Liechtensteinische Post AG, the Liechtenstein Press Office said on June 7, 2005. The Liechtenstein Government has given a green light to the deal and Liechtensteinische Post is to decide on the matter in mid-June. The two postal carriers have agreed not to disclose details on the deal until then. Liechtensteinische Post did not comment on the price of the deal, but Die Post’s Daniel Mollet said it was a “single-digit sum in millions”.
Read MoreSwiss Post to sell newspapers, magazines in 30 trial offices
Swiss postal operator Die Post will start a pilot project to sell newspapers and magazines in 30 post offices on June 13, 2005.
Overall 50 domestic and foreign titles will be offered for six months in the post offices, Die Post said on May 27, 2005. If the results from the trial are positive, the project will be expanded to include 1,000 post offices.
The bulk of trial post offices will be in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, including offices in Aarau, Bern, Chur, Lucerne, Solothurn, Zug, Winterthur and Zurich.
Die Post did not state when the project will be introduced in the French-speaking cantons.
The company said papers and magazines were post-related goods and represented a reasonable supplement to its core activities.
Read MoreNew challengers set to blow European road express apart
New players are set to seriously challenge the big global integrators in the fast-growing European international road express market. They will include national parcel operators and freight forwarders.
That was one of the arguments put forward at this month’s World Mail ‘ Express Europe conference in Brussels. However, industry observers questioned that suggestion, asking where the new market entrants would come. They also pointed out that both groups of potential additional competitors had tried in the past to move into that sector without success.
Opening the debate, German express, parcel and transport industry journalist and consultant Ludwig-Michael Cremer argued that the European international express market was set to see further segmentation between air and road-based operations. TNT already had fully separate pan-European air and road networks, he said, and DHL and UPS were set to follow. FedEx was currently focused on air express and might need to find a partner to develop the equivalent of its FedEx Ground operation in the US.
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