Swiss lawmakers back move to alternate post office access
Switzerland's National Council has rejected a proposal by the country's communications union to bring in new rules to guarantee a certain level of access to full-service post offices across the country.
View ArticleNorway Post to shut down almost all post offices
Norway Post was given the green light by lawmakers yesterday to make standalone post offices virtually extinct.
View ArticleRussian Post signs support deal with Bashkortostan government
Russian Post has signed an agreement with the regional government of Bashkortostan to partner on improving postal services in the Russian republic.
View ArticleFrance to weigh up “intangible benefits” in post office funding
French regulators have launched a public consultation on the intangible benefits that La Poste enjoys in having a national network of 17,000 post offices.
View ArticleRussian Post to trial contactless payment with MasterCard
Russian Post has signed a deal with credit card company MasterCard to jointly develop financial products and payment technology in post offices.
View ArticleSwiss Post to roll out new look in 170 post offices
Swiss Post is giving its post offices a facelift and ramping up its retail product range in the coming months, with a focus on making more of third party products.
View ArticleAustralia Post opens first “superstore” in Western Australia
Australia Post is continuing the expansion of its retail "superstores" with the opening of the first such branch in Western Australia this week.
View Article“Important corner has been turned” at Post Office Ltd, states report
The Post Office Ltd network is stronger now than it has been for years, according to the company's first annual report issued following independence from Royal Mail Group.
View ArticleUSPS should stick to postal products, says Congressional advisory
The US Postal Service should not be allowed to expand into non-postal products and services to raise revenue - because its track record in non-postal areas is not good enough.
View ArticlePost Office Ltd extends Bank of Ireland alliance to 2023
The Bank of Ireland said today it has signed definitive agreements with the UK's Post Office Ltd to extend and enhance their retail banking partnership through to 2023.
View ArticleUSPS defines new-style part-time rural post offices
The US Postal Service has officially laid out how its network of thousands of rural post offices will look by 2014, as it acts to reduce operating hours in order to cut costs.
View ArticleIndia Post hands $126m financial IT contract to Infosys
India Post has selected technology and consulting firm Infosys for a major contract to upgrade financial service infrastructure in 150,000 post offices across the country.
View ArticlePost Office bid to become mortgage heavyweight in UK
The UK's Post Office Ltd is introducing specially-trained mortgage specialists into its branches to take the next step in growing its mortgage business.
View ArticleThe week that was: 10 August, 2012
Rounding up the biggest stories of the week from the pages of Post&Parcel, including the latest on the TNT Express acquisition by UPS, USPS financial woes, and InPost's massive parcel terminal...
View ArticleUS regulators back USPS plan to cut rural post office hours
US regulators have said the Postal Service's plan to reduce working hours at thousands of rural post offices is a "significant improvement" over previous plans to shut 3,700 post offices.
View ArticlePost Office Ltd agrees retail partnership with HSBC
Britain's Post Office Ltd has won another contract to extend the range of banking access it can provide in post offices.
View ArticleInPost and NCR team up to develop automated post office
Unprofitable post offices of the future could be replaced by fully-automated machines, rather than moved into supermarkets or turned into part-time postal counters.
View ArticleCall for dismissal in USPS postal retail lawsuit
US Postal Service retail technology partner IGI has called on courts in Colorado to dismiss a class action suit brought by contracted postal counter operators, challenging restrictions on which mailing...
View ArticleStakeholder group begins talks over future of Post Office Ltd
The stakeholder forum tasked with considering the future of the UK's post office network has come together to begin discussions regarding mutualisation.
View ArticleUK post offices to trial travel agency kiosks
Travel firm Minoan Group plc has said it has agreed with the National Fededation of Sub Postmasters to trial 50 travel agency kiosks in UK sub post offices.
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