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French post office invests EUR147m and selects Bull and Lockheed Martin

Posted by | Dec 13, 2005 | |

The Board of Directors of La Poste has authorized the Mail Directorate to award Bull, in partnership with Lockheed Martin, the contract to deliver the information system that will run its future mail sorting machines.

Through this EUR 147 million contract, La Poste will deploy an information system backed-up with the latest technologies over the 800 machines of the platforms covering the whole country. This deployment is part of the “Cap Qualite Courrier” programme.

Bull’s turnkey solution, developed in partnership with Lockheed Martin, involves providing a unique new automatic address interpretation and computer based mail sorting system. This system is based on optical reading (up to 50,000 letters per hour) of all of the information written on an envelope: address of recipient, information relative to sender, bar-code, date and stamp amount, etc. The first operational phase will begin during the course of 2007.

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Bull, Lockheed Martin win 147 mln eur order from French post office

Posted by | Dec 13, 2005 | |

France’s post office, La Poste, said it has signed a 147 mln eur contract with French IT services group Bull and with Lockheed Martin Corp for the companies to supply an IT system for its postal sorting machinery.

The contract, running from 2007 to 2010, will run in parallel with the construction of 13 new postal sorting platforms, Gabriel Hentzen, chief executive of La poste’s mail operations, told Agence France-Presse.

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The future of Canadian Postal Services goes on trial in Washington D.C.

Posted by | Dec 12, 2005 | |

The future of Canada’s public post office will be decided by a private trade tribunal operating from the World Bank headquarters in Washington D.C. The hearings over our post office will run from December 12-17th.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) and the Council of Canadians (the Council) are concerned that the tribunal, which is looking at a complaint filed by United Parcel Service (UPS), could issue a decision that has disastrous implications for postal and other public services.

UPS is using Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to demand financial compensation of 185 million CDN from Canada’s federal government. This amount will double if UPS wins damages to date.

UPS claims its investments are being limited by Canada’s publicly funded network of mailboxes and post offices. It believes this network gives Canada Post an unfair advantage when delivering parcel, express and courier services that are in competition with private courier services.

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DHL Global Mail France appoints Head of Automatic Data Processing

Posted by | Dec 12, 2005 | |

DHL Global Mail France has recently appointed Alain Halvick, 51, manager of automatic data processing and digital information, it was reported on December 9, 2005.

At the position, Halvick will be in charge of developing and implementing electronic solutions for automatic data processing, electronic invoicing, electronic data interchange (EDI), archiving of digital content and electronic document management.

At DHL Global Mail France Halvick is a subordinate to the general management and will work in close collaboration with the teams of Deutsche Post World Net in France and Germany. Deutsche Post World Net is the parent company of express services provider DHL.

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Industry awaits TNT’s logistics sell-off

Posted by | Dec 12, 2005 | |

The decision of TNT to put a ‘for sale’ sign on the majority of its worldwide logistics activities has prompted a series of questions from industry observers and analysts.

Much of the speculation revolves around the identity of likely potential buyers and whether the logistics business will be sold as one entity or hived off in pieces to several purchasers.

There are also questions about the timing of the move by the Netherlands-based mail, express and logistics group, and the reasons behind it.

Announcing its decision largely to withdraw from logistics during next year, TNT stated last week that a strategic review of its businesses had concluded that the group’s strength lay in designing, implementing and running de- livery networks in the mail, express and freight management sectors.

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