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Postal Service HR system moving to Web

Posted by | Jul 25, 2006 | |

The Postal Service is replacing dozens of unconnected human resources systems nationwide with one that will allow its 700,000 employees to make benefit and payroll changes on a single Internet site.

The PostalPEOPLE system, using software from German company SAP AG, will be the largest in the world when finished, says Andy Malay, a vice president at SAP America in Washington. It is being rolled out in phases to replace a hodgepodge of more than 70 systems, used by 3,800 HR managers across the U.S.

Similar to Web-based human-resources programs that are increasingly common in private companies, PostalPEOPLE allows workers to access benefits, compensation, and retirement and separation files and other HR-related information from any computer with an Internet connection.

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UPS 2nd Quarter Produces Solid Earnings on 15% Revenue Gain

Posted by | Jul 25, 2006 | |

UPS today reported a strong gain in consolidated revenue and a 10.2% improvement in earnings per diluted share to 0.97 USD. Global small package volume rose 6% or 841,000 additional packages each day.

UPS closed the quarter with 2.85 billion USD in cash and marketable securities.

U.S. Package. All levels of service posted gains. Daily ground volume increased 4.6%, while average daily volume for Next Day Air® rose 4.2% and deferred air volume climbed 7.6%. Total revenue per piece remained firm with a gain of 2.7%.

Total international package volume grew 16.5%. Export volume increased 6.5% and non-U.S. domestic volume was up 23.6% aided by acquisitions.

Revenue and profit improvements in Supply Chain and Freight segment were primarily driven by the acquisition last August of a leading LTL carrier, Overnite, now re-branded UPS Freight.

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Mail ads with credit card offers dropping off

Posted by | Jul 25, 2006 | |

The pesky piles of credit card offers that clog many Americans’ mailboxes might start to taper off.

Since the early 1990s, the volume of credit card solicitations mailed to U.S. consumers has soared more than sixfold, with card companies last year sending out more than 6 billion offers, according to market-research firm Synovate.

But the pitches have been losing effectiveness. Just three out of every 1,000 offers generated responses last year, down from about 28 per 1,000 in 1992.

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Heads from six postal services gather

Posted by | Jul 25, 2006 | |

Senior executives from six postal administrations in the Asia-Pacific region will today wrap up their three-day meeting held at Seoul’s Shilla Hotel, the meeting’s organizer Korea Post said yesterday.
Participants of the fourth annual Kahala Posts Group CEO/BOD Joint Meetings discussed the current status and future prospects of “express mail services,” or EMS, and the implementation of the Kahala Initiative, the state-run postal service said.

Participants include Tam Wing-pong, postmaster general of Hong Kong Post; Toshihiro Takahashi, senior executive vice president for Japan Post; Hwang Joong-yon, inspector general of Korea Post; Ma Jun Sheng, vice director-general of the Chinese State Postal Bureau; Graeme John, managing director of Australia Post; and Paul Vogel, vice president for network operations management in the U.S. Postal Service. Adam Crozier of the U.K.’s Royal Mail, which will soon likely join the Kahala membership, also attended the meeting.

The Kahala Initiative refers to an integrated postal service network among six member countries including Korea, the United States, Japan, China, Australia and Hong Kong, to enhance the quality and competitiveness of EMS.

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DHL Express bags 2006 CIO Award

Posted by | Jul 25, 2006 | |

Express and logistics firm DHL was awarded the prestigious Chief Information Officer (CIO) Award at the recent CIO Asia Conference and Awards 2006 at the Grand Hyatt in Singapore.

The firm was selected among 100 Asian companies that yielded the greatest returns for their businesses by using technology and information technology (IT) projects and systems to derive the highest strategic value.

DHL was conferred with the CIO Award in recognition of its “Supply Chain Optimization” project.

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