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International Postal Update — January 2008

International Postal Update / Consumer Postal Council

January 3, 2008

EUROPEAN LIBERALIZATION DELAYED AGAIN Opening of postal markets officially pushed back. A committee of the 27-member European Commission granted EC members a new two-year delay – from 2009 to 2011 for 13 countries and to 2013 for 12 new member states, along with Luxembourg and Greece – in opening their postal...

Postal Service Updates Transformation Plan

USPS / News / USPS

December 20, 2007

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Seven Good Years of Postal Service Productivity

Michael Schuyler / IRET

October 2, 2007

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Free and Fair Post Initiative on Postal Liberalisation Agreement

Press Release / Free & Fair Post Initiative

October 1, 2007

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International Postal Update – Asian Expansion

International Postal Update / Consumer Postal Council

ASIAN EXPANSION POSTAL GROWTH IN CHINA The postal sector in China has grown 11.6 percent per year on average since 1998, becoming a USD $10.64 billion industry. Postal delivery in China is still dominated by the state-owned China Post Group, but the sector is undergoing reform. In 1998, the government separated the postal...