Presented to this year's World Economic Forum, inĭavos. Of "Principles of Corporate Citizenship", TheĬhief executives of seven firms, among them DHL, TPGĪnd Swiss Post, put their names to a joint statement Multinationals are taking steps towards demonstratingĪ commitment to corporate social responsibility. UNI (through UNI-Europa Post) alreadyĮngages in formalized social dialogue within theĮuropean Union, with the employers' body,
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Working for one major operator, and others are being UNI has alreadyĮstablished a virtual network of representatives He points to the recent agreement made byĭeutsche Post World Net to establish a Works CouncilĪs a useful step forward, and says that he will nowīe working to bring about the first multinationalįramework agreements in the sector. Partnership arrangements in a rapidly globalizing
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Postal sector, the aim is to help develop social Global union representing the postal sector, is also Postal operators' associations) and other Governments, postal operators (including private UPU is also expected to agree to establish aĬonsultative committee to provide a forum for Others to play a greater role in its deliberations.Īs well as a body for national postal operators, the Post offices - is developing new structures allowing Organized to link member governments and national This year's event in Bucharest is likely to be Holds its world congresses only every five years, and Overseen the international postal service, is The venerable UN body, which for generations has That it now employs 150,000 people in 62 countries.Īmong other interests, TPG owns TNT, the worldwide On its relatively small home market to the extent Successfully diversified away from an over-reliance High-profile acquisition has been DHL WorldwideĮxpress, the large US-based courier company, but theĬompany has also acquired a string of otherĬompanies, including GlobalMail, Airborne, The development of Deutsche Post World Net and TPG from their roots as national postal operators, shows how traditional letter and parcel businesses are converging with courier services into a single sector, ushering in an important new area of logistics. Meanwhile, a small group of powerful multinational operators is emerging, led by the partially privatized Deutsche Post World Net and the Netherlands' TPG, and commercial courier companies, FedEx and UPS. In many developing countries, postal services have been subjected to reform programmes.In the United States, the US Postal Service - the largest in the world - is being scrutinized by a Presidential Commission.In the European Union, national postal operators will face competition in 2006, for everything except the most basic letter services.Japan's postal service has just completed a process of "corporatization", launching a new Public Postal Corporation last year and facing competition for the first time.But though slow, the more earthbound mail has itself seen a period of unprecedented change:
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Electronic messages would come to your local post office and then be delivered to you along with the regular mail.LONDON - Changes in today's postal sector are literally snail-like when compared to the lightning-fast developments buffeting its old twin, telecommunications. Postal Service) with the implication that it is a lot slower than e-mail. Snail mail is a slang term for the regular postal service (for example, the U.S.