Correios De Portugal - Network of Postal Establishments as at the End of 2007 - May 12, 2008
This report refers to the postal establishments of the universal postal service concessionaire (CTT - Correios de Portugal S.A.) as well as to private establishments and those of other entities where postal services conceded to CTT are provided.
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ComReg Report: An Post Achieves Sustained Improvement in Quality - April 1, 2008
"Quality improvement must continue," says An Post Chief. An Post's next-day delivery service improved by five per cent in 2007 (to 77 percent) over the previous year, according to quality monitor figures announced by ComReg today (March 27, 2008). Most significant is the seven per cent improvement (to 73 percent) achieved in the busy October to December period, over the same quarter in 2006 (66 percent). This quarter includes the pre-Christmas and year-end rush during which An Post's recorded a processing peak of almost eight million items in one 24 hour period across its four automated mails hubs. Media Release
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Postcomm Forward Work Plan 2008-11 - March 31, 2008
Postcomm has published its forward work plan for 2008-11.
The forward work plan sets out our overall strategy for 2008-11, along with detail on the specific projects we intend to undertake. It describes Postcomm's mandate and goals, and its priorities for the year. There are a number of top priority workstreams, which must be completed, as well as potential projects/workstreams that are contingent on factors beyond our control, for example, access determinations, or appeals against any Postcomm decisions. If we are required to divert resources to such projects, then others - which are desirable but not an absolute priority - may be re-evaluated.
Postcomm's Forward Work Plan for 2008-11 sets out our overall strategy for 2008-11, along with the detail on the specific projects we intend to undertake.
Our projects and workstreams fall into four corporate goals:
. ensuring a universal service
. protecting customer interests (for more detail, see our web pages on Royal Mail standards and prices and postal licences and operators)
. replacing regulation through the promotion of sustainable competition
. advising on the Post Office network.
The achievement of these four goals is supported by building effective stakeholder relations and by using and developing resources effectively.
We will also continue to inform our decisions through international benchmarking, wherever possible.
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“The Benefits of Competition in the UK Mail Market” published by Europe Economics, London, UK. - March 13, 2008
This report is published by Europe Economics for TNT UK and shows benefits for the UK of £2.29m and 3,300 jobs from competition in UK Mail market with a forecast of additional net benefits of up to £405m and 660,000 jobs by 2016.
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Latest ‘Future of Mail’ paper: “Mail Trends Update” by Fouad Nader (Adrenale Corp.) and Michael Lintell (Pitney Bowes) - February 27, 2008
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of press articles and statements from posts predicting that mail volumes would decline. New technologies and process innovations have been introduced, preoccupying researchers and managers in the postal and mailing industries with the impact of accelerating electronic substitution and changing customer behaviors. What are the actual trends that emerge from examining in detail the best information available from key countries? What historical perspectives, trends and emerging patterns may be useful in understanding how mail volumes may evolve in the future?
The purpose of this paper is to provide further insight into the key trends identified and discussed in the previous Mail Trends Analyses by comprehensively examining the evolution of mail and analyzing postal volumes along key variables that influence mail demand.
This paper builds on the considerable research that followed the original mail trends analysis and was documented in the Background Papers published at www.postinsight.pb.com for the project: “Electronic Substitution for Mail: Models and Results, Myth and Reality.” The paper also takes advantage of recent work in the study of the “Future of Mail”, also on postinsight.pb.com.
Mail Trends paper
Study Looks at Adjacent Postal Markets - 1,500 Companies With A Market Volume Of €16.5bn - February 26, 2008
[Press Release.]The Federal Network Agency in 2007 commissioned a research project on the markets for upstream and downstream postal services. It has published the findings today. MICUS Management Consulting GmbH analysed the markets for direct mail, transaction printing, address management, mailroom outsourcing, response processing and document storage, collecting data on market volumes, provider structure, pricing and the intensity of competition. The study also looked at the linkage between the areas analysed. The study found there to be around 500 medium-sized and large companies (more than 10 members of staff) and 800 to 1,000 small companies operating in adjacent postal markets, generating a volume of around €16.5bn. Almost three quarters of this volume is accounted for by direct mail services. Currently, a trend towards outsourcing mailrooms can be observed amongst the customers, while providers are seen to be expanding the value chain to increase their margins and strengthen customer loyalty. To date, there has been little analysis of the markets for upstream and downstream postal services. The MICUS study is one of the first to explore these areas. It was occasioned by the Agency's desire to gather information on the potential for leveraging market power into adjacent areas, so that it could recognise and assess the potential for abuse.
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"European Postal Perspective - Facing the Challenge from Low-Cost Posts" by Martin Raab, Erwin den Exter, Raymond Beers and VeraSchneemann (CapGemini Consulting). - January 31, 2008
"An-Post - Postal Services Business Survey 2007" by Millard Brown IMS as commissioned by The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg), January 2008 - January 31, 2008
Accounting For Laws That Apply Differently To The United States Postal Service And Its Private Competitors - January 24, 2008
"Accounting For Laws
That Apply Differently To The
United States Postal Service
And Its Private Competitors" - A Report by the
Federal Trade Commission, December 2007
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"Liberalisation, Privatisation And Regulation Of Postal Services In Europe" - Discussion Paper - January 11, 2008
Introduction
In the early 1990s the European Commission began debating how to introduce a single market into postal services across Europe in line with its other initiatives on creating a single market for goods and services. This led to a green paper in 1992 and a draft directive at the end of 1995 that was finally agreed in December 1997, followed by a further directive in 2002. The main aims of European legislation were to try to establish a standard reserved area for letters and access conditions for licensed operators, to introduce independent regulators in each Member State, to set quality standards and to establish clear principles on pricing. The reserved area was initially set at letters weighing less than 100g or costing less than three times the standard service. These thresholds applied from 1 January 2003 and were then reduced from 1 January 2006 to letters weighing less than 50g or costing more than 2.5 times the standard service. Another review should lead to further liberalisation with the prospect of a fully open market by 2009 (Pond, Richard, 2006: 3).
In this report a descriptive analysis of postal services linked with liberalisation processes in six European countries is given. It is based on postal sector studies produced within the PIQUE project in 2006. One aim is to develop typologies of regulation processes that can be used to identify important variables concerning the effects of liberalisation, privatisation and regulation on competition, quality of services, prices and employment, especially with regard to expected future liberalisation steps in Europe.
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