Tag: Worldwide

Good results for the EMS Cooperative

Posted by | Aug 4, 2008 | |

At its extraordinary General Assembly held during the UPU Congress, the EMS Cooperative announced on Monday 4th August a set of very positive results: volumes rose by 23 pct between 2004 and 2006; 88 pct of items were delivered on time; and the EMS Cooperative now boasts a membership of 149. The EMS Cooperative was created in 1998 to develop and strengthen the EMS service.

A succession of countries were awarded certificates in recognition of their efforts to meet the main EMS standards. To ensure high quality service, independent consultants analyze the performance of the various operators each year.

For 2007, 13 countries received gold, silver or bronze awards for the excellence of their EMS services (deliveries, tracking of items and customer service). Azerbaijan, Hong Kong (China), Japan, the Republic of Korea and Singapore took gold; the Czech Republic, Great Britain, New Zealand, Sweden and the United States were awarded silver; and Australia, Brazil and Canada received bronze awards.

Hungary, Russia and Spain also received awards for exceptional customer service.

EMS is a high quality, competitive, affordable international express postal service for sending documents and goods the world over. In most countries EMS is the only operator offering universal access to international express services for private customers and small and medium enterprises.

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Quality of Service Fund extended until 2016

Posted by | Aug 1, 2008 | |

UPU Congress Committee 8 (Development Cooperation) decided to extend the lifespan of the Quality of Service Fund (QSF). Initially scheduled to run from 2001 to 2012, the QSF will now continue until 2016. Created by the 1999 Beijing Congress, the QSF finances projects aimed at improving postal service quality in developing countries. All member countries, except least developed countries, contribute to the Fund through an increase in their terminal dues payments.

In its first eight years, the QSF has financed over 400 projects, worth almost 60 million USD. These projects have helped to raise the quality of the postal services of more than 150 beneficiary postal operators, making the QSF an essential plank of the UPU’s development cooperation system.

The Committee also decided that the link between the Fund and terminal dues should be maintained; that QSF projects should continue to focus on the quality of service of beneficiary postal operators, particularly as regards mail flows subject to terminal dues; and that new elections should be held after the 24th Congress for the 9 countries represented on the Board of Trustees, the body that oversees the Fund.

There is general agreement that the QSF has proven its worth. Extending the Fund is fully in step with the World Postal Strategy. One of its objectives is to improve quality and efficiency in the international postal network. As such, the QSF represents a valuable source of funding for activities relating to interoperability, interconnection and integrity of networks, quality of service measurement, mail security and implementation of cost accounting systems.

This new lease of life will allow the QSF to build on the positive results achieved in the first few years of operations.

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The UPU Consultative Committee Puts Forward a Proposal

Posted by | Aug 1, 2008 | |

During its 24th assembly held in Geneva, the UPU Congress unanimously approved a proposal called: “Leveraging wider sector involvement to make development cooperation more effective and forward-looking”.

In particular, the Congress proposal request that all postal operators:

– Embrace cost-effective technologies that facilitate the secure collection of revenues

– Seek the expertise of the members of the Consultative Committee, the private sector body of the UPU when implementing these technologies

The development of partnerships with the private sector is also encouraged. This is the first time, since the UPU started to open up to the private sector in 2004 at its Bucharest Congress, that the UPU Congress approves a proposal originating from the wider sector in an area other than standardization.

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UNI encourages UPU to do more for sustainable development

Posted by | Aug 1, 2008 | |

Speaking at the UPU Congress debate on sustainable development, Head of UNI Post & Logistics Global Union, Neil Anderson, encouraged the delegates to become more active in the work of the UPU on sustainable development. He said UNI was pleased to have been part of the social dialogue activities that had been run in Africa and Europe and was hoping to encourage other regions to be part of the dialogue. As a member of the UPU Consultative Committee UNI Global Union was also wanting the issue of social inclusion and workers rights to be part of that committee’s agenda and would be working to include the new operators in that work. He said that to date the Postal Sector has an excellent history of being socially responsible and UNI wanted to encourage all UPU members and Consultative Committee members to continue that tradition and work to ensuring that all postal workers enjoyed workers rights.

The Rapporteur for the sustainable development agenda item, Patrick Widloecher from France, speaking after UNI, told delegates that he totally agreed with UNI and that post had to be socially responsible and respect the rights and aims of workers to be involved in the development of their industry. He said that postal administrations must recognise that workers were an integral part of the industry and must be consulted and included in the changes that the industry was facing particularly in respect of climate change. He said they were citizens and consumers also and if Posts wanted to have a workforce committed to making positive change they must be included in and be part of that change.

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Deutsche Post & Deutsche Bahn to bid for 800m euro German army contract

Posted by | Jul 31, 2008 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG. and Deutsche Bahn AG. separately plan to submit bids for a major logistics contract to be tendered by the Germany army this summer, Handelsblatt reported, citing spokesmen for both companies.

The newspaper also said Kuehne & Nagel and Hellmann Logistics may be interested in the contract, without saying where it got the information.

Industry experts estimate the contract may have a volume of about 800 million euros, it said.

The German army, called the Bundeswehr, plans to tender basic logistics including warehousing of medical equipment and supplies, but not ammunition, the newspaper said, citing a spokesman for Bundeswehr advisor GEBB.

The contract will also comprise transport of materials, ammunition, medical equipment and supplies, domestically and abroad, though not the transport of soldiers.

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