Opportunities for the Postal Service to Deliver Nonpostal Government Services
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International Postal Update — October 2010
September 30, 2010CRISIS LOOMS IN BRITAIN OVER PRIVATIZATION Citing a “lethal combination of circumstances” threatening Royal Mail’s viability, Vince Cable, Business Secretary of the country’s conservative-liberal coalition, said on September 10 that the government is moving ahead with controversial legislation to privatize Britain’s postal service....
International Postal Update — July 2010
June 29, 2010EUROPEAN 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...
International Postal Update — April 2010
April 1, 2010POSTS 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...
International Postal Update — January 2010
December 22, 2009POSTAL 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...