POSTAL NEWS
No 55-2020
Formulated by UNI AproPost and Logistics Sector
1. Parcel lockers and the service station of the future.July 09, 2020.
2.
Two iconic brands join forces for
electric delivery trial.
July 08, 2020.
4. UPS opens new DC in Slovenia to facilitate e-commerce growth. July 06, 2020.5. Australia Post invests $25m in new Adelaide parcel facility to meet online shopping boom. July 05, 2020. |
1. Parcel lockers and the service station of the future
July 09, 2020
Finnish
postal operator Posti has unveiled a new OmaPosti kiosk as part of a
low-emission service station.
The service
station, featuring the new self-serve kiosk, is in the Tuusula Housing Fair
2020 area. The futuristic service station also features a self-service deli,
fuel pumps for renewable diesel, and fast charging for electric vehicles.
In
early autumn, biogas and natural gas filling points will also be opened at the
station.
From
the OmaPosti self-service kiosk, customers can pick up, return and send
domestic and international packages and registered letters. It will be open
seven days a week, 7am to 10pm, and features 163 locker doors. The service
point complements South Tuusula’s existing postal services. Personal video chat
support is also available when necessary.
“The
growth in e-commerce and parcel volumes has been enormous during the past
spring. To support the growth, we need to offer our customers flexible service
options close to their everyday routes. This will also reduce emissions from
deliveries.” – Heiko Laubach , Director of Posti's service point network .
This
is Posti’s eighth OmaPosti kiosk.
The
energy used by the service station comes from solar panels installed on the
deli roof, as well as electricity generated by wind power and hydroelectric
power.
“Posts
and carriers need to look at how to gain more synergy and efficiency in the
last mile. Moves like this one from Posti are a step in the right direction.” -
Marek Różycki, Last Mile Experts and co-host of Last Mile Prophets
Source :http://www.thepostalhub.com/blog
2. Two iconic brands join forces for electric delivery trial
July 08, 2020
Royal Mail is partnering with London Electric Vehicle Company to trial its new VN5 prototype electric van – based on a
typical London taxi cab – for parcel and letter deliveries later this month.
The trial is an example of the Company’s efforts to continue to reduce
emissions associated with its operations.
The 2.9 tonne small
van is a durable vehicle which is designed to operate at lengthy distances on a
stop and start basis, comparable to a typical postal round. Fully chargeable at
the local delivery office, the van is designed to help postmen and women
deliver letters and parcels securely, whilst reducing associated emissions.
One van will be
trialled on delivery rounds in largely urban areas over the next six months,
including locations in Derby, Leeds, Edinburgh and Bristol. The trial begins
this week in Hockley, near Birmingham.
The prototype van
forms part of Royal Mail’s program of low or zero emission vehicle trials. They
are an example of the Company’s efforts to continue to reduce emissions
associated with its operations, and to test the suitability of alternative
vehicles and fuels.
The Van
The TX conversion is
able to accommodate letters, cards and parcels of all sizes, and is designed
for use on roads and highways. Deliveries during the trial will operate as part
of a usual delivery pattern on suitable routes.
If introduced more
widely, the cabs will complement the Company’s pre-existing fleet of 295
electric vans. The cab’s range extender would enable emission-free deliveries
to more remote locations, and on longer routes than a typical electric van.
London Electric
Vehicle Company is trialling the TX-based prototype vehicle with 25 company
partners across various sectors, ahead of the official launch of its new VN5
electric van later this year.
Paul Gatti, Fleet
Director at Royal Mail said: “As a Company, we are committed to making changes
to our operations that reduce our environmental impact, whilst ensuring we
continue to meet customer expectations. Alongside the introduction of electric
vans in locations across our business, this trial is part of a programme of
initiatives that allow us to experiment with ways to achieve this, whilst
enabling us to continue to deliver letters and parcels safely, efficiently and
responsibly.”
Joerg Hofmann, LEVC
CEO, commented: “Royal Mail is one of the oldest postal services in the world
and, like our London black cab, is part of British history and culture. It is
great that these two iconic brands are joining forces for this trial. The VN5
prototypes will wear the iconic Royal Mail red livery and be used on routes
that will test the vehicles ability to the full. These trials are crucial to
the final development of the van, ahead of its launch later this year.”
3. FO alongside postal workers to ensure the accommodation of their children
Because the costs of studying
for children are difficult to finance from the family budget, FO works to
develop solutions to help postal workers find accommodation for their student
children.
Thanks to the action of FO, the
offer is expanding. Four solutions now exist: “Studéa”
residences, “Sergic Twenty Campus” residences, student accommodation
in the Cachan home, student accommodation in Créteil.
Good to know ! The Housing
Service of La Poste also makes some heritage accommodation in Ile-de-France
available to the children of postal workers. Priority is given to Domiens
children.
FO is working quickly to
develop a wider range of offers and services intended for "older
children", students or high school students, in order to promote Equal
Opportunities!
Source :http://www.focom-laposte.fr/
4. UPS opens new DC in Slovenia to facilitate e-commerce growth
July 06, 2020
UPS has opened a new distribution centre in Slovenia to
serve the country’s burgeoning ecommerce market.
The new distribution centreis located inZgornjiBrnjk, near
Ljubljana Business Center, and is sized at nearly 1400 square metres with a
sorting capacity of 2500 packages per hour.
Sitting at a crossroads of different European trade routes,
the site is intended to help Slovenian businesses expand their reach outside of
the country to neighbouring countries such as Austria and Italy.
UPS has operated in the country since 1991 and has a fleet of
110 delivery vehicles in the country. The carrier is investing $2 billion in
Europe over multiple years with the goal of modernising and expanding its
network across the continent.
A bulletin from statistics agency Eurostat in March said
that ecommerce sales had risen 11% in Slovenia in January year-on-year.
Yannick Moojiman, managing director for UPS Slovenia,
Hungary, Greece and Romania. “As the global economy continues to shift, this
facility gives our customers the best possible resources to meet the future
logistics challenges of the ‘new normal’.”
Source :https://edelivery.net/2020/07
5. Australia Post invests $25m in new Adelaide parcel facility to meet online shopping boom
July 05, 2020
Australia
Post is investing $25 million in a brand new parcel facility in Adelaide - to
meet the demand for parcels boosted by the unprecedented growth in online
shopping in the state.
This
will be the company’s biggest operational investment in South Australia ever.
The
new site will consolidate operations currently carried out across multiple
sites into one state-of-the-art facility, featuring automated parcel processing
for the first time ever in the state, significantly boosting parcel processing
capacity and improving service standards for residents in South Australia.
Australia
Post Group Chief Executive Officer and Manager Director Christine Holgate said
South Australians are shopping online more than ever before, with this
investment part of Australia Post’s ongoing efforts to keep up with demand,
particularly in growing areas such as Adelaide.
“It
is no secret Australians love shopping online, spending over $4.4 billion in
April this year alone, and South Australians love it more than most with a huge
jump in online purchases during COVID-19,” Ms Holgate said.
“More
than 14,000 South Australian households shopped online for the first time in
April, with Adelaide’s postcode alone ranked third nationally by percentage of
new online shoppers. This drove the state’s overall online shopping growth
figure for the month to an incredible 86 per cent up on last year.
“I am
so thrilled to be making this investment as it will be the first time we have
introduced any parcels automation in South Australia so it truly will
future-proof our operations.
“The
facility will be critical in helping us to stay ahead of the continued growth
in parcels, enabling us to get parcels from merchants and to our customer
faster,” Ms Holgate continued.
The
new facility is not just great news for online shoppers, it will also improve
safety and efficiency, and create 50 new, important local jobs while preserving
current roles.
“The
health and safety of our people is our priority and this new site will feature
high-speed sorting machinery and other automation, significantly reducing
manual handling and the associated risk of injury to our people,” she added.
“Through
the transition we will be bringing our teams together under one roof,
maintaining current roles wle also creating new opportunities for our people to
move into new positions within the growth area of our businhiess.”
According
to Australia Post’s 2020 Inside Australian Online Shopping Report, South
Australians are big buyers of fashion, health and beauty and home and garden
products with growth in the state across the three categories up 19.2 percent,
12.6 percent and 11.9 per cent YOY respectively in 2019.
Preparations
for the new Adelaide parcels facility are already underway with the site due to
become operational in 2021.
POSTAL NEWS
No 56-2020
Formulated by UNI AproPost and Logistics Sector
1. Correos and the Government of Castilla-La Mancha sign a framework agreement to implement services in rural areas.
July 09, 2020.
2. bpost looks to lower delivery emissions. July 09, 2020.3. PHLPost warns public of online scam.July 07, 2020.
4.
China’s e-commerce logistics business increased
steadily
in June.July 06, 2020.
5. Royal Mail Group/CWU dog awareness week 2020.July 06, 2020. |
1. Correos and the Government of Castilla-La Mancha sign a framework agreement to implement services in rural areas
July 09, 2020
The agreement entails that administrative procedures can be carried out
in the offices that the Post Office has to avoid that residents in small
municipalities have to move. In addition, it establishes the commercialization
of local products that are accredited by the quality figures of the region, to
through the market place 'Correos Market'
The
President of Correos, Juan Manuel Serrano and the President of Castilla-La
Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, have signed, today, the framework collaboration
agreement between the public company and the regional Executive with which it
seeks to implement services in the environment rural guaranteeing access to
basic public services to the rural population under the same conditions as
other people who live in cities.
With
this agreement, Correos demonstrates its commitment to the defense of the rural
environment and to the development and progress of all citizens, which is why
it works to make life easier for them and promote their well-being, according
to the president of the public company, who puts its network of post offices
spread throughout the territory for this purpose. "In Castilla La
Mancha we have 146 offices that will facilitate administrative procedures for
the Castilian-Manchego", he indicated.
It
is, as the regional vice president, José Luis Martínez Guijarro, assured, to
take advantage of the penetration that Correos has as a public company due to
its obligation to provide the postal service to any citizen in any corner,
which makes it a “strategic ally "
In
this sense, the initialed agreement will make it possible to carry out
administrative procedures in the offices that the Post Office has in the
autonomous territory. "We are talking," said the vice president
of the Castilian-Manchego government, "to bring the regional
Administration even closer, taking advantage of the network of offices, so that
citizens can initiate common procedures that range from the renewal of an
unemployment card and the health card or the application of a fishing or
hunting card ”along with the possibility of including the processing of aid
from the CAP“ or an office where citizens can simply pay the fees ”.
Another
of the pillars of the framework agreement involves the promotion of products
located in the territory, since it is established that, through the online
platform it has - the 'Correos Market' market place - it is possible to market
local products that they are accredited by the quality figures of the region
such as Designations of Origin, Protected Geographical Indications and
ecological, with which the Post Office can serve as the best way to bring these
products to any point on the planet.
This
measure is intended to encourage employment in the rural world and promote the
circular economy, natural and ecological production, as well as agrotourism as
basic activities in the rural economy.
Finally,
as the vice president has pointed out, the text that has been signed today also
establishes collaboration in the field of tourism and culture with the
installation of stands for the sale of books in the post offices of those
municipalities where there are no bookstores, as well as the implementation of
mechanisms that allow access to the resources of public libraries in the
region.
The
development of this agreement will be carried out through specific agreements
signed as addenda, and will give rise to concrete collaborations that include
the possibility of offering other services to citizens who live in small
municipalities. Such is the case of the possibility of installing ATMs in
the Post Offices themselves, returning this service that has been disappearing
in recent years in rural areas.
The
President of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, thanked in his speech
the "spectacular work and stuck to the ground" of Correos,
responsible for the free distribution of five million masks in full alarm,
decreed because of the health crisis caused by the coronavirus. Correos
has been "the only entity that was in a position to allow us to distribute
free, because they have not charged us, five million masks that have reached 96
percent of the region," he stressed.
2. bpost looks to lower delivery emissions
July 09, 2020
Belgian postal
organization bpost has launched a pilot project in the city of Mechelen to
attempt emissions-free delivery of letters and parcels throughout the city. The
group says that the collaboration will last two years and looks to develop a
blueprint for the introduction of sustainable delivery solutions in a phased
manner.
It is hoped
that the foundation of its scheme will be an increase in its network of parcel
lockers, meaning the population of Mechelenhas to collect their parcels on foot
or by bike.
Further to expanding its network of lockers, the postal
service is also looking at investment in electric vehicles and cargo carrying
bicycles.
Jean-Paul
Van Avermaet, CEO of bpost group explained, “As a company, we want to take the
lead in sustainable e-commerce. Thanks to this partnership with the city of
Mechelen, we are taking a step in the right direction and the people of
Mechelen can count on a growing network of services that complement and
strengthen each other perfectly. We naturally hope that this can also serve as
inspiration for many other cities and we will have discussions with interested
parties in the coming months.”
3. PHLPost warns public of online scam
July 07, 2020
The
Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) reminded the public to be cautious in
disclosing personal information online especially those messages confirming of
an alleged shipment of parcels using the name of the postal service.
According
to PHLPost, the online scam is sent through messages via a fictitious website
www.parceltrackandtracing.com confirming of an alleged shipment of electronic
gadget (Apple iPhone 11) which is ready for delivery using the name of “PHLPost”
in the messages.
PHLPost
noted that they have received multiple inquiries and complaints involving these
online messages received from the said website.
It
states that an alleged shipment of the said item shall be ready for delivery by
PHLPost upon confirming of shipping details on the web link provided and
directing them to pay PhpP19.00 as shipping fee.
The
postal service urges the public to disregard the said website informing the
receiver that he/she has pending parcel containing a mobile device sponsored or
coming from PHLPost.
PHLPost
disclosed that the messages and notifications did not come from any of their
office and that certain packages that were allegedly sent do not exist.
PHLPost
clarified that none of their branches and partners nationwide have current
online promos.
Source
:https://www.phlpost.gov.ph/
4. China’s e-commerce logistics business increased steadily in June
July 06, 2020
China’s e-commerce logistics activities expanded in June according
to a survey conducted by the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing and
the e-commerce giant JD.com, reports Xinhua.
The index tracking
e-commerce logistics activities rose to 108.2 points in June from 107.5 points
in May, the survey showed.
The total demand for
e-commerce logistics rose in June after falling for two consecutive months, the
survey said, attributing the increase to a mid-year online shopping bonanza initiated
by Chinese e-commerce platforms. The sub-index tracking the total business
volume registered 122.1 points, up 2.2 points from the previous month.
The survey showed
demand for e-commerce in rural areas continued to rise for the fourth
consecutive month. The sub-index tracking e-commerce logistics in rural areas
reached 118.4 points, up 1.9 points from the previous month.
Source : https://postandparcel.info/123665/news/e-commerce
5. Royal Mail Group/CWU dog awareness week 2020
July 06, 2020
With an average of seven dog attacks on our members taking
place every day, the CWU and Royal Mail are highlighting the responsibility of
owners to ensure their dogs are kept indoors when their postman or postwoman
calls.
This week is Dog Awareness Week 2020, an annual campaign
jointly supported by the union and the business aimed at reducing this hazard
for our members, and this year’s theme focuses on the simple steps that members
of the public can take to help.
CWU health, safety & environment national officer Dave
Joyce says: “Of the 2,500 dog attacks on Royal Mail workers over the past year,
83 per cent of them happened either at the front door or in the garden, but
with a few basic precautions, these could be prevented.
“So during Dog Awareness Week next week, the CWU and the
company will be asking dog owners to please help to make your postie’s safe by:
•
Keep your dog indoors or in the
back garden where it cannot get to the front – the majority of attacks occur in
the front garden.
•
Placing your dog in a secure
room or fitting a wire letterbox cage/receptacle on the inside of your letter
box – many attacks take place on our members at the letter box.
•
Considering the fitting of a
secure mailbox on the edge of your property.
Monday July 6 – July 11
“We know Royal that not
all dogs are dangerous, in fact most don’t present a problem, but if a dog
feels it or its territory is being threatened – no matter what breed – it will
be defensive,” Dave explains.
“So this coming week, we’re going to be highlighting the
potential risks to our members and also the potential risks of prosecution for
owners and the possible loss of their pet if attacks occur and asking all dog
owners to please follow these simple steps.”
Source :https://www.cwu.org/news