Tag: Switzerland

Swiss Post places 258 Mln Euro orders for letter sorting machines

Posted by | Mar 8, 2005 | |

Swiss Post placed 400 mln Swiss francs (USD340.8 mln/257.7 mln euro) orders with four companies for sorting machines and containers on March 8, 2005. Swiss Post will use the said equipment in the three new sorting centres and six subcentres, which it will start operating between 2006 and 2008 under the Reengineering Mailprocessing (REMA) project. Swiss Post will invest over 1.0 bln francs (USD852 mln/644 mln euro) in REMA by 2009. Swiss Post placed orders with Siemens Schweiz AG, Swiss Bern-based Gilgen AG, NEC Corporation and Swiss Aargau-based Georg Utz AG.

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IPC UNEX results 2004

Posted by | Mar 4, 2005 | |

External Quality of Service Monitoring,Improving the Quality of International Mail.
Quality of service among Postal operators in Europe continued at a high level in 2004 in spite of restructuring and change management demands on postal operations preparing for postal liberalisation. Overall, IPC members delivered 93.7 per cent of first class international letters in Europe within three days of posting (J+3), and 98.4 per cent within five days (J+5). Average delivery time was just 2.2 days.
Quality of service performance was measured by IPC’s UNEX end-to-end monitoring
system. The results show that both speed (J+3) and reliability (J+5) were again far above the European Union’s (EU) performance objectives for delivery of 85 per cent of intra-EU mail within three days, and 97 per cent within five days.
P:LibraryPostalIPC 2004_UNEX_Results.pdf

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Swiss Post continues to top international league for delivery times

Posted by | Mar 4, 2005 | |

Swiss Post is one of the fastest and most reliable postal companies in the world, as the annual, independent measurements show. In 2004, 97.4% of A Mail and B Mail letters arrived on time, very slightly down on the high figures achieved for 2003. In the parcels business, Swiss Post maintained its impressive position as well: 95.8% of PostPac Priority consignments and 97.7% of PostPac Economy consignments reached recipients within the promised time. On cross-border letters, Swiss Post has maintained the same excellent record for years: letters from and to Switzerland reach destinations in Europe in an average of 2.1 days, whereas the average time spent in transit for European postal companies as a whole is 2.2 days.

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Pro-Liberalisers urge more vigilance from national regulators

Posted by | Mar 2, 2005 | |

National regulators need to be more zealous in applying the 2002 postal services directive, the pro-liberalisation Free and Fair Post Initiative (FFPI) says. “The current situation is far from satisfactory in most member states” as anti-trust probes are “especially rare”, FFPI president Philippe Bodson said in a recent open letter to the European Commission. He wants regulators to pay more attention to price-fixing and cross-subsidisation, the practice where postal operators use profits made in the monopolised sector to fund parts of its business competing on the open market. Mr Bodson said the Commission’s “track record in this field is encouraging” and urged it to continue actively investigating anti-competitive behaviour.

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