The Latvian postal service has launched a homemade Christmas card campaign, encouraging Latvian citizens (especially children) to create their own greeting cards. The postal service is providing blank white postcards free of charge to encourage Latvians to come up with

Royal Mail's First Class quality of service performance dipped 2.3 percentage points below the 93.0 next-day delivery target in the second quarter of 2009-1010, a period when there was a series of localised strikes by the Communication Workers Union, focussed

The Communication Workers Union, which represents thousands of Royal Mail workers may yet call for more strikes before Christmas, despite an interim agreement established earlier this month to establish a period of calm. However, some postal workers are concerned that

Steve Lawson, editor for Hellmail postal news, said this week that postal operators around the world should be braced for a new wave of electronic postal services that will slash millions from profits and see even greater decline of mail

Czech Post reports that Czechoslovakia's new 'Data Box' service has now seen more than one million messages sent. The system, using a government-guaranteed electronic storage space initiative, is a paperless mail service which permits communication between public authorities, guaranteeing the

The Supervisory Board of Austrian Post approved the potential transfer of civil servants working for Austrian Post whose jobs have been lost or are threatened to the federal government. Now the prerequisites have been established to enable up to 1,000

Mail and messaging technology specialist Pitney Bowes has launched a new range of letter openers aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses. The new range comprises five letter openers, each operating at differing speeds to meet a variety of incoming mail

Dennis Gilham, Corporate Partnerships Director will be retiring from Neopost at the end of December after 35 years. Dennis has had a unique and varied career, starting with Roneo Alcatel in 1974, and progressing to become R&D Director in Romford.

the words of a spokesman for Dutch postal operator TNT, and a sign that the global postal industry is changing beyond recognition. For employees, often at the rough end of any restructuring, the certainty of a 'job for life' is

Earlier this year, Dutch operator TNT said it would have to cut 11,000 jobs to stave off further mail volume decline and competition from two other operators employing staff on a more casual basis. More recently, the company suggested employee

Russia's state new agency has announced that the state postal operator, Pochta Rossii, is to cut its personnel by 33,000 in 2010 as part of a campaign aimed at streamlining company management....

Considering she is in her 70s this is good going, but crucially her reliance on post is neglible now and whilst she may not be the typical 'Granny Smith' (that threatened species of postal user we hear so much about),

Hays, the world's leading recruiting experts in qualified, professional and skilled people, has appointed CFH Total Document Management to implement Corporate Docmail, the integral document management and hybrid mail system, into its head office and network of 212 branch offices....

The first Northern Ireland-based operator, Regional Mail Services Limited, has been granted a postal operators licence and is one of two new licences granted this month by Postcomm, the UK postal regulator. The second was granted to Enerco2 Limited in

UK Mail (Business Post) has reported an 11 per cent fall in revenue from its parcel delivery service - from £9.6m to £80m. The company blamed the fall on the impact of the recession. Despite seeing a rise in business

Ceska Posta, the Czech Republic postal service, has just launched a new international parcel service...

According to Deutsche Post DHL, prices for letters and post cards delivered by Deutsche Post within Germany will remain the same next year. The Federal Network Agency, which regulates the most important letter prices, has accepted the respective pricing proposal

The Royal Mail is in discussion with HMRC on which product lines should now see the application of V.A.T. - a move that could further erode the Royal Mail's dominance in the UK postal market. Dutch-owned TNT Post and other

Tayisiya Zamkova, Director General of the Ukraine postal service has congratulated postal workers on their hard work to ensure the continued survival of Ukrainian postal services. In a message in the UKrposhta web site today, she said: "The Postal service

Today marks 91 years since the establishment of Lietuvos pastas, the Lithuanian postal service, which is one of the largest employers in Lithuania. The day is being marked by special events in various places of Vilnius.