Increasing revenue and cutting costs: Staying ahead in the postal industry
Phil Danner, Vice President, Global Product Development, Intermec
World Mail Review, November 2008
Tag: Worldwide
DHL Express opens new terminal in Poland
DHL Express has invested EUR 4.5m in a new terminal in north-western Poland to expand its network in the fast-growing market.
Read MoreIran to privatize part of its state-run postal services
Iran’s government charged the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology with forming a government-run postal organization, which will take over some of the services offered by the existing state-controlled Iran Postal Service Company
Read MoreNew Postal Operations Council (POC) tackles ambitious programme
The new Postal Operations Council (POC) formally adopted a structure focused on product lines and designated the countries that will chair the various groups within four broad committees.
The POC is meeting for the first time since Congress.
Four committees will oversee the work of the Union in the areas of letter-post, parcels, postal financial services and standards and technology. Groups within these committees will further deal with specific operational issues affecting members of the postal sector, such as quality of service, customs, security, standards, addressing and electronic services, to name but a few.
POC Chairman, Andreas Taprantzis, who is also the Greek Post’s CEO, said a simplified structure will “streamline the decision-making process. Groups and Committees are taking up a lot of the burden. The plenary should be free from trivial decision-making and focus the debate on strategic issues. We need a fresh perspective… and make [it] attractive to the management of postal operators.”
Some 700 delegates from around the world are at UPU headquarters in Berne to attend the POC, whose work plan over the next four years is ambitious.
Read MoreSingapore hosts 15th ASEAN postal business meeting
Singapore’s Minister for Information, Communications & the Arts, Dr Lee Boon Yang, opened the 15th ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Postal Business Meeting (APBM), hosted by Singapore Post (SingPost).
About 50 delegates from the 10 ASEAN countries namely Brunei Darussalam,
Cambodia, Republic of Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Union
of Myanmar, Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and the Socialist Republic
of Viet Nam, as well as ASEAN countries ie People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong,
Japan, India and the Republic of Korea, are attending the meeting in Singapore.
Meetings
The Singapore Meeting will begin with the election of the new Vice-Chairperson and the
adoption of the business timetable. Malaysia holds the chairmanship of the ASEAN
Postal Business Meeting.
During the two-day Meeting, senior postal officials from the 10 ASEAN countries will
receive updates from the 24th Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress and its impact on
ASEAN, and will discuss the leveraging on Singapore and Indonesia, both of which were
recently re-elected into the Postal Operations Council (POC), as the conduit for
UPU/POC information between the ASEAN members and the UPU/POC, as well as
establishing funding projects that can reinforce ASEAN’s collective competitiveness as a
region, so as to realise equitable and sustainable growth. The meeting will also provide
updates from the previous meeting held in Philippines on 4-5 September 2007.
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