1. Thailand Post resumes international delivery services
June 10, 2020
Thailand Post has resumed four main international delivery services after
lockdowns in some international destinations have been eased, reports The Nation Thailand.
The services are EMS
World, e-Packet, Courier Post and Logistpost World.
According to a
Thailand Post statement (June 8), EMS World will now serve 29 destinations,
including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain,
the UK and the US.
The e-Packet service
has resumed for Bhutan, China, South Korea, Russia and Singapore.
Courier Post has
restarted services to as many as 107 destinations, including the UK, the US,
South Korea, Japan and China.
Logispost World will
serve 31 destinations, including Australia, China, Italy and Japan.
2. Summer at the Network, watch out for the heatstroke!
At the height of the health
crisis, the Association of Mayors of France had estimated that the postal
presence had been undermined. At the same time, the number of tours having
been reduced, the anger of elected officials was growing!
Suddenly, by discovering
Philippe Wahl's commitment to leave all post offices open during the summer
period, we have the feeling that La Poste wishes to increase efforts to satisfy
local communities. While the 2020-2022 territorial postal presence
contract authorizes certain closings during the summer, La Poste agrees to keep
the offices open and even strengthen its presence by organizing 200 seasonal
service points. The latter will provide essential services in tourist,
rural and mountain communities.
By announcing the creation of
2000 summer jobs, La Poste is making the buzz and wants to demonstrate that it
is an actor in the general desire for economic recovery. But these jobs
alone will not ensure this new organization properly!
FO Com will ensure that the
initiatives of our CEO are not carried out to the detriment of all postal
workers in the Network and that each agent can benefit from his summer holidays
which, after this period of crisis, will be more than necessary!
Source :http://www.focom-laposte.fr/
3. Nationwide 5,000. DHL Packstation opened in Düsseldorf
June 08, 2020
The expansion of the packing
station network and the development of further automated solutions is part of a
multi-year digitization program
·
Another
milestone on the way to 7,000 packing stations in early 2021
Massive packing station expansion part of a comprehensive digitization program
Massive packing station expansion part of a comprehensive digitization program
· Customers particularly
appreciate DHL Packstation for contactless parcel receipt and delivery in the
corona crisis
DHL
is building the packing station network ever closer and today has 5,000 in
Germany. DHL Packstation started up. The Mayor of Düsseldorf, Thomas
Geisel, the Commercial Director of the University Clinic, Ekkehard Zimmer, and
Holger Bartels, Head of the Multichannel Sales Post &Paket Deutschland
division of the Deutsche Post DHL Group, officially inaugurated the new Packstation
on the premises of the University Clinic Düsseldorf. The expansion of the
packing station network and the development of further automated solutions is
part of a multi-year digitization program that the Deutsche Post DHL Group
presented in March this year. The company invests extensively in new
digital services and substantial improvements to existing solutions in the mail
and parcel area,
At the 5,000th Packstation
in Düsseldorf's Moorenstrasse is now available for DHL customers to pick up and
send their DHL parcels. The capacity of the new machine includes 12
modules with 101 compartments. There are already over 40 packing stations
in Düsseldorf.
"Especially in times of the
corona pandemic, the Packstation is a very useful invention. The contact between
the parcel carrier and the recipient is therefore superfluous, a possible
source of infection is eliminated. And at the same time the Packstation is a
great alternative to delivery, especially for working people. Nice that
Germany's 5000th Packstation has now been set up in Düsseldorf on the site of
the university clinic, "said Thomas Geisel.
Ekkehard Zimmer was pleased that
the Packstation fulfilled another wish of the employees: "Especially in
the difficult times of the corona pandemic, it is a great help for hospital
staff if they can send and receive parcels near the work place. As the board of
directors, we are always committed to project proposals from the workforce,
because such service offerings also make the Düsseldorf University Hospital workplace
even more attractive. "
"In the course of the
growing online trade, the Packstation has become an integral part of many
people's lives and has proven to be a particularly popular and secure form of
contactless receiving and sending of parcels, especially in the current corona
crisis," explained Holger Bartels. Since the beginning of the crisis
in March 2020, a disproportionately large number of new customers have
registered for the Packstation. In addition, customers would use the
option of sending returns and pre-franked shipments contactlessly via the
Packstation. Holger Bartels emphasized that DHL is adhering to the plan to
install around 7,000 DHL Packstations nationwide by the beginning of 2021, both
for the people in the city and in the country.
DHL introduced the Packstation
service in 2003 as the first company in the German market and operates a
nationwide unique Packstation network with 5,000 machines with a total of
around 500,000 compartments. The Packstation is particularly popular
because it is easy to use and available around the clock.
In addition, it is located in
central places of daily life, so that customers can conveniently combine the
receipt and delivery of parcels, for example with the way to work or grocery
shopping.
Registration for the free
Packstation service is possible at www.dhl.de/packstation . New
customers need the DHL Paket App to receive shipments at the
Packstation , which conveniently bundles all services related to the DHL
Paket. No prior registration is required for sending parcels and parcels
to the packing station.
4. Posti to install new mail sorting machines this autumn
June 08, 2020
Finnish postal service provider Posti will install new mail
sorting machines later this year, after plans were delayed due to COVID-19.
The new sorting machines will be located in Oulu, which will
receive one machine, and in Helsinki, which will receive two machines. They
will be installed in the third quarter of this year or the first quarter of
2021 at the latest.
Posti also plans to install new sorting machines in Tampere
and Kuopio at a later date.
The new machines will complement the network of six similar
machines which Posti says will together cover all of Finland’s mail sorting
needs.
Sami Reponen, production director, postal services, Posti,
said, “The sorting machine quickly sorts items into the delivery order, which
means that the deliverer doesn’t have to sort the items according to the mail
recipient’s address to the same degree as today.”
5. All post offices open in France this summer
June 05, 2020
France’s 7,700 post offices will stay open this summer,
with an additional 200 seasonal service points, creating 2,000 seasonal jobs.
All of France’s post offices will stay open throughout
July and August, national postal service La Poste announced
yesterday (June 4), and available services will increase.
Post offices in France’s postal network have the right to
close in summertime, although they have decided not to this year.
In a press
release La Poste stated: “The objective of this unique measure established
for summer 2020, is to respond to a double objective: contribute to the
attraction of tourist areas and to help professionals, artisans, shopkeepers
and self-employed professionals in picking up the local economy.”
To this
end, 200 new summer service points will be opened in tourist zones in France,
creating 2,000 new jobs.
Extra services for summer
La Poste also plans to make more cash available to help stimulate the
economy. It said: “Practically all of our cash machines will be operational all
summer long”, especially in tourist areas, and communes in which there is only
one post office cash machine available.
The
amount of cash that can be withdrawn from cash machines will also rise from
€350 in a 7-day period to €500 for holders of post office current accounts and
savings accounts.
Summer post office jobs
The 2,000
jobs that will be created by these measures are aimed at students in the middle
of their university studies.
Recruitment
will begin after mid-June throughout France. Applications can be made at www.laposterecrute.fr.
UPS has announced a series of facility expansions to its
healthcare-dedicated warehouse and distribution network in key global markets.
This includes new
GDP-compliant space opening in Central and Eastern Europe and additional cold
chain space coming online near its UPS Worldport facility in Louisville.
The company is
planning up to 1.5 million sq. ft. of cGMP distribution space for Coronavirus-related
shipments, and a new facility in Shanghai.
“UPS Healthcare
continues to build out a global distribution infrastructure that demonstrates
our commitment to the healthcare industry,” said Wes Wheeler, UPS Healthcare
president. “We will continue to innovate and expand our quality systems
throughout our expanded network to further support more complex pharmaceutical
and lab testing requirements.”
As part of these
ongoing facility enhancements, the company has committed to building additional
cooler space (2-8 degrees Celsius), and freezer space (minus-20 degrees to
minus-80 degrees Celsius) in its new GMP facility in Louisville. UPS Healthcare
is also expanding its GDP facility space in Hungary, and GMP space in the
United Kingdom through its Polar Speed subsidiary where it operates a
dispensing pharmacy that serves more than 20,000 patients daily. The new GMP
warehouse and transportation hub will be located in the Midlands, UK, to
further facilitate its clients’ growth needs.
“More of our customers
are turning to UPS Healthcare to meet their complex demands for critical
products,” said Wheeler. “Our network and logistics expertise make us second to
no one, and we will continue to be market leaders as we deliver on our
commitment to ‘Quality Focused. Patient Driven.’ service.”
1. Beyond the curve. Officers resume duties following pandemic service
June 09, 2020
Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan has established COVID-19
Response Command, a group within the Postal Service that will help ensure the
organization takes a comprehensive approach to its response to the coronavirus
pandemic.
The group is led by Kristin Seaver, who has stepped away
from her regular duties as chief information officer to serve as incident
commander.
COVID-19 Response Command covers four key areas, each led by
a USPS officer:
·
Employee
response: Simon
Storey, employee resource management vice president
·
Operational
continuity: Joshua
Colin, acting processing and maintenance operations vice president
·
Business
continuity: Mark
Guilfoil, supply management vice president
·
Customer
continuity: Steve
Monteith, marketing vice president
Janice Walker, corporate communications vice president,
coordinates all communications related to COVID-19 Response Command, while
David Ellis, managing counsel, coordinates all legal concerns on behalf of the
general counsel’s office.
While COVID-19 Response Command is active, other executives
and managers will handle the duties of the officers involved with the group.
Scott Bombaugh, engineering systems vice president, will
serve as acting chief information officer; Jeffrey Becker, international
operations executive director; will serve as acting processing and maintenance
operations vice president; Linda DeCarlo, safety manager, will serve as acting
employee resource management vice president; and Karen Pompanella, commercial
products and services manager, will serve as acting supply management vice
president.
2. syndicom welcomes CorradoPardini's election to the Post Board of Directors
June 08, 2020
The General Meeting of the Post Group
elected the Bern trade unionist CorradoPardini as a new employee representative
on the Board of Directors (VR) of the Post. syndicom is pleased that the
Post employees are represented by a competent personality and their preferred
candidate on the board of directors of the Post Group.
With
the election of old National Councilor CorradoPardini, Swiss Post's general
assembly followed syndicom's nomination. The election proposal was made at
the request of the Presidiums of the post of syndicom, which CorradoPardini had
nominated from a shortlist as the most suitable candidate. CorradoPardini
is a long-standing member of syndicom and president of the Bern trade union
federation. He meets all the requirements for this demanding mandate:
proven political and trade union experience at the highest level. He has
repeatedly demonstrated his trade union stance. As an old member of the
National Council, he also has the necessary feeling for the political processes
in Bundesbern, where he has made a name for himself as an advocate of a strong
public service.
syndicom
is pleased with the choice of CorradoPardini and is convinced that with him a
competent personality and a real employee representative will represent the
interests of the employees on the Board of Directors of Swiss Post. He
will take over this vacancy in the Swiss Post VR immediately. syndicom
thanks CorradoPardini for being involved in the services of the postal workers
and for their well-being.
3. Australia Post elevates Munro Farmer to CIO
June 05, 2020
After John Cox moves into a broader executive role.
Australia Post has quietly elevated Munro
Farmer into the role of chief information officer after John Cox moved up to a
new executive position.
The changes occurred in March, when Cox - who
had been CIO since August 2016 - assumed the new role of executive general
manager for transformation and enablement.
That allowed Farmer - a long-time CIO with
freight companies including Australian Air Express and StarTrack, and AusPost
since 2014 - to take on the CIO role.
For the past six years, Farmer has been
general manager of technology, parcel & eCommerce services at Australia
Post.
“Munro has been instrumental in leading
Australia Post’s technology strategy and architecture, and has played a key
role in modernising many of our core delivery systems to improve the experience
we deliver for our customers,” an Australia Post spokesperson told iTnews.
Around the same time as the CIO change,
Australia Post paused or stopped an undisclosed number of IT projects as
part of its response to the coronavirus pandemic, letting go of some of its IT
contractor workforce in the process.
Post's spokesperson did not respond to
questions about whether the CIO change was part of a broader restructure of IT,
the size of the IT organisation, and to what extent the organisation might be
reworking its IT or digital strategies post-COVID.
“With the ever-changing landscape of
information technology, Australia Post is constantly looking to evolve its IT
strategy and capability to adapt to the current environment and remain at the
forefront of innovative digital strategy, planning and execution," the
spokesperson said.
Farmer’s reporting line into the AusPost
executive is via Cox, who still retains headline responsibility for technology,
in addition to assuming control of a range of other functions.
Australia Post’s website states that Cox “is
accountable for strategy, technology, communications, government relations and
data science, as well as the company’s transformation office.”
The transformation office is focused on
modernising Post’s systems and digitising services, investing in areas such as
infrastructure and automation, telco transformation and data and analytics.
It is partway through a major network
transformation that will improve connectivity to 4000 sites.
The company completed work at 1000 of the
4000 sites last week, a “major milestone” in the project that was marked online
by Farmer and others.
On the data science front, it is understood
the team is exploring technologies including artificial intelligence, machine
learning, predictive modelling and robotics to improve safety, customer
experiences and commercial outcomes.
A use case for AI being applied to commercial
data was revealed by AusPost at a Salesforce event in March,
otherwise the organisation has not discussed its plans nor achievements to date
in any great depth.
Source :https://www.itnews.com.au/news
4. PostNord Group AB divest Logistic portfolio in Norrköping
June 05,2020
PostNord Group AB (PostNord) has signed an
agreement with Barings Core Fund Sweden Holding AB (Barings) for a sale and
leaseback regarding a portfolio of logistics properties in Norrköping.
In
2019, PostNord Group decided to increase its focus on its core business, Letter
and Parcel operations and related logistics services. In line with this
decision, PostNord has of today completed a sale and leaseback deal regarding
properties occupied by PostNord TPL AB, a third-party logistics provider.
The
properties comprise 122,000 sq m and the underlying agreed property value is
SEK 960 million. New owner from July 1, 2020 will be Barings, one of the
world’s largest diversified real estate investment managers, through the
Barings European Core Property Fund (BECPF).
The
new owner acquires the property companies Kardinalmärket 1 AB and KB Sveterm,
including existing leases contracts from 1 July 2020. The existing tenant,
PostNord TPL AB, is the market leader on the Swedish 3 PL market, occupying
over 600,000 sq m of warehouse space in Norrköping, Helsingborg, Malmö,
Gothenburg, Stockholm, Ljungby and Jönköping.
The
buyer, Barings, has invested in a range of sectors in Sweden, including office,
retail and residential properties, for example Härolden 44 on Fleminggatan 7 in
Stockholm, Gyllenstjärna 36,Åhléns City in Malmö and residential development
regarding 25,000 sq.m. in Bromsten. In addition to this, the current portfolio
includes investments in the other Nordic countries as well as the UK, Germany,
France, Spain, Italy and Benelux.
CBRE
and Linklaters AB have been advising PostNord.