MANILA, May 21 (PIA) — The Philippine Postal Corporation (PhlPost) has partnered with the world’s leading express services provider, DHL to provide more shipping options to its customers.

“Our partnership will see us leverage on the extensive network and services of DHL Express to further boost our product offerings and reach. It will extend over and beyond the maximum weight limit permissible and outside of the existing serviceable countries of our Express Mail Service,” said Philippine Postal Corporation CEO and Postmaster General Manager Josefina dela Cruz.

Dela Cruz added that the partnership will enable them to be more globally competitive and ready to serve the increasing demands of customers through the provision of prompt and affordable services.

Read more: PIA | Philippine Information Agency | PhlPost, DHL partnership to boost postal service.

U.S. Postal Service clerks, carriers, mail handlers and drivers have a lot in common with other postal workers in the capitalist world. In Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Greece, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, India, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Canada and other countries, postal workers have gone out on strike in the last year to demand wage increases, to defend benefits and to oppose privatization.

Read more: Postal workers’ struggle spreads across the world – Workers World » Around the world » In the U.S. » Top » Workers World.

“NZ Post is a public service, not a cash cow”
3 May, 2013

New Zealand Post is a vital public service and there is no justification for reducing mail delivery to three days a week, says the union for postal workers, the EPMU.

The call follows claims from NZ Post that it would need Government subsidies unless it is allowed to slash mail delivery services in half.

EPMU national industry organiser Joe Gallagher says there is no need for drastic cuts to delivery.

“Any talk about subsidies at this stage is pure speculation and scaremongering. NZ Post is actually returning a profit and will continue to do so for some time even without any changes.

“We recognise NZ Post faces serious commercial pressures, but current mail volumes do not justify the drastic and damaging cuts that are being proposed. This proposal only makes sense if you believe NZ Post exists purely to return a profit.

“NZ Post is not a cash cow for the Government. It is a vital public service and any move to reduce its social obligations will face resistance from the Kiwis who rely on it to stay connected with their families, their communities and their customers.

“We are calling on the Government to listen to communities, keep NZ Post’s social obligations in place and commit to wider public consultation on any future changes.”

The EPMU’s submission to MBIE over changes to the Deed of Understanding is available at: http://www.epmu.org.nz/assets/Post/EPMU-Submission-NZ-Post-2013.pdf

A selection of quotes from the more than 250 public submissions received by the EPMU is available at: http://www.epmu.org.nz/assets/Post/Public-submissions.pdf

ALLAHABAD: While postal department is pushing for modernisation of its services, its revenue has also increased. Allahabad postal region earned revenue of more than one billion rupees in the last financial year. Other than transmission of letters and selling postage stamps, the department also provides services like banking, insurance and other financial services.

Read more: New services push postal dept revenue – The Times of India.

Lakhs of letters, mostly belonging to defence personnel and their families, are lying undelivered in more than 15 bags and five big boxes at a post office (PO) in the city for the past six months.

The post office is located inside the boundary of 9BRD Air Force Area in Vimannagar.

Ex-Navy officer, social worker and RTI activist Binod Kumar Ojha, who visited the post office recently, said, “Around 80% of these ‘unattended’ letters belong to the defence people and 20% to civilians, which is a serious issue. We are all aware that all government documents come by normal post.”

Read more: This Post Office fails to deliver lakhs of letters – Pune – DNA.

The high court on Monday came to the rescue of a senior citizen who wanted a post office to be established near his house in Vasanth Nagar.

The court has warned that suo motu contempt proceedings would be initiated against the postal department if it failed to establish a post office in the area within four months.

A public interest litigation was filed by Satinderpal Chopra, a senior citizen from Vasanth Nagar, who had stated that people of the area had been put to great hardship after the only post office there had been closed down about one and half years ago. The post office was closed down since it was located on a private property at 7th cross 11th Main in Vasanth Nagar. Chopra pleaded that in spite of many respresentations to the postmaster general urging him to open a new post office on Millers Road, the needful had not been done.

Read more: Bangalore: The postman may come calling again – Bangalore – DNA.

Ecommerce is booming in Russia as more people hook up to the internet. But a corresponding surge in parcel volumes is straining the the old fashioned postal services to the limit and last week cost the head of the Russian post office his job.

Read more: Russia’s post office: can’t keep up | beyondbrics.

Mumbai, April 12:

The city’s first Mahila Dak Ghar, a post office entirely operated by women staff, was inaugurated here today. Located at New Customs House in South Mumbai, the post office was inaugurated by Post Secretary and Postal Services Board Chairperson P Gopinath.

Read more: Mumbai gets first women post office – Business Line.

All post offices across India will offer online banking services to customers by May next year, according to Killi Kruparani, Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology of India.

India Post offers a wide range of financial services such as savings accounts, insurance and provident funds. The network of 155,000 post offices across the country provides critical services in rural areas that lack banking infrastructure.

Read more: Post Offices in India to Offer Online Banking | Articles | FutureGov – Transforming Government | Education | Healthcare.

PHLPost – the postal service of the Philippines – is getting into the logistics business, it said yesterday.

The state-owned corporation, which rebranded last year from PhilPost as part of a transformation programme under Postmaster General Josefina Dela Cruz, said it has just acquired 12 new vehicles to underpin new cargo delivery and forwarding services.

The 12 new vehicles acquired through a public tender process include nine six-wheeler canter trucks and four 10-wheeler trucks, and are now based at the Central Mail Exchange Center in Pasay City.

Read more: PHLPost entering logistics business with fleet additions | Post & Parcel.