EUROPEAN UNION LIBERALIZATION DEADLINE APPROACHING The deadline for European countries to comply with the European Commission's Third Postal Directive, which requires the majority of them to open their postal markets to competition, is just six months away. As Philippe Bodson, President of the...
POSTS ADAPT BY EMBRACING NON-POSTAL PURSUITS TAX EQUALIZATION FOR DEUTSCHE POST Deutsche Post lost its fight to keep its exemption from Germany's value-added tax (VAT). The upper house of parliament approved legislation scrapping the exemption March 26. Beginning in July 2010, DP must...
POSTAL PRIVATIZATION PUSH SLOWING WORLDWIDE PRIVATIZATION OF JAPAN POST HALTED The ruling Democratic Party of Japan enacted a new law on December 5 which effectively put a freeze on the planned sale of shares in Japan Post Holdings Co. This measure represents one of...
NATIONAL POSTS LOOK TO "GO GREEN" POSTAL SERVICES AIM TO CONTROL CARBON FOOTPRINT At the behest of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), many government postal services are working to measure, report, and control their carbon emissions, as well as to initiate eco-friendly programs. These...
UNREST AT ROYAL MAIL Facing union pressure, election setbacks, and a revolt by backbenchers in his own party, Gordon Brown's Labor government has abandoned plans to sell off a 30 percent -- originally a 49 percent -- share of Royal Mail to a...