UNI Apro Post & Logistics
1 POSTAL NEWS No 03-2022
Formulated by UNI Apro Post and Logistics Sector
1.UK Post Office: Our cash and banking offer performed very strongly. January 13, 2022.
2.Biden administration taps USPS and postal workers for distribution of COVID test kits. January 13, 2022.
3.Post Office Scheme: Invest Rs 95 daily to get about Rs 14 lakh on maturity, here’s how. January 13, 2022.
4.Management team acquires DHL's route planning tool Green plan through a Management Buyout. January 12, 2022.
5.Correos launches dedicated cargo airline. January 07, 2022.
1.UK Post Office: Our cash and banking offer performed very strongly January 13, 2022
UK Post Office today reports its key trading figures for the peak Christmas period from 29 November to 26 December 2021.
Because the Covid-19 restrictions in 2020 created exceptional demand for mails and parcels services, as people could not meet in person and sent cards and presents by post instead, the organisation has included comparisons with the pre-pandemic 2019 period where appropriate. In 2021, the pandemic continued to contribute to a challenging retail environment and reduced footfall on Britain’s High Streets. However, Post Office’s performance was resilient. There were 50.5 million customer transactions during the four-week period, down just 1.7% on the same period in 2019, before the pandemic, and down only 1.5% on 2020.
Total network income* for the four-week period was £73.8m. Compared with the same period in 2019, before the pandemic, this was an increase of 15%. Compared with the exceptional 2020 period it was a 5% fall.
Highlights § The week beginning Monday 13 December was our busiest week of the year, with 14.6m customer transactions. On Christmas Day itself, 65,000 transactions took place at Post Offices that were open, typically in convenience stores. § Network availability was as its highest level since before the pandemic, with 11,596 branches trading in December, almost 100 branches over our 11,500 requirements. § Over 3,100 Post Offices offered ‘Click and Collect’ services for DPD and Amazon for the first time. Around 70% of parcels were collected within one day of arriving at a Post Office branch. § Post Office launched new charity partnership with Trussell Trust, the charity that works to end the need for food banks in the UK, on 30 November, donating 1p from every over-thecounter cash withdrawal at branches and hoping to raise £250,000 for the charity. Post Office made excellent progress in reaching this target over the period.
Commenting on Christmas trading, Post Office Chief Executive, Nick Read, said: “Whilst the parcel market remains highly competitive and challenging, Post Offices have delivered a resilient performance in the face of Covid-19 restrictions, dramatic falls in footfall on our High Streets and general uncertainty about the cost of living. It’s a testament to the determination and hard work of Postmasters that so many remained open, providing essential services to their community, with well over 11,500 branches trading. “Our cash and banking offer performed very strongly, ensuring people could withdraw cash to spend locally on hospitality and gifts, and small businesses had somewhere open to deposit their takings. Our travel business goes from strength to strength and the recent relaxation in travel testing rules provides us with further opportunities to benefit commercially over the coming months. This year we will also expand our ‘Click and Collect’ services from 3,100 branches to over 6,000.”
Source : https://postandparcel.info/146210/news/e-commerce/uk-post-office-our-cash-and banking-offer-performed-very-strongly
2.Biden administration taps USPS and postal workers for distribution of COVID test kits January 13, 2022.
The Biden Administration has announced a program to mail at-home COVID test kits to every household that requests them. These kits could be mailed to as many as 160 million addresses. APWU members will be critical to the success of the program. “The APWU is excited and fully supports this plan,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. “It is in the interests of the health and wellbeing of the general population as this dangerous pandemic continues. It underscores the invaluable role of the public Postal Service in the lives of the people. It shines a light on the importance of maintaining universal service to every address and person. It opens up the opportunity for similar expanded ‘fulfilment’ work in the future.” APWU President Mark Dimondstein, Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman and Clerk Craft Director Lamont Brooks jointly worked with the Postal Service to secure a Memorandum of Understanding that defines the project as “new work” and ensures that the “fulfilment” work associated with packaging and labelling the packages for this temporary project is determined as clerk work. At the same time, the MOU gives the USPS the flexibility to keep holiday temporary workers on the rolls so as to increase the workforce capacity to make this project a success. The fulfillment work will be performed at 43 existing postal facilities throughout the country.
“APWU-represented clerk craft bargaining unit employees boldly accept the ‘new work’ opportunity to fulfill the distribution of the COVID test kits authorized by the Biden Administration’s call to action,” said Clerk Craft Director Lamont Brooks. “This is just another example of clerks, as part of the Postal Service institution, rising to the challenge of connecting the public during these difficult times while still carrying out our mission of processing the mail.” “This is an amazing opportunity to once again show the American people that we are here to serve them and how important the Postal Service is to this country. This proves we are ready and able to offer expanded services” stated Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman.
The APWU is ready to do our part. It will be up to the Biden Administration to ensure that the necessary number of test kits are quickly manufactured and that the ordering process for these kits is easily accessible for the people.
Source : https://apwu.org/news/biden-administration-taps-usps-and-postal-workersdistribution-covid-test-kits
3.Post Office Scheme: Invest Rs 95 daily to get about Rs 14 lakh on maturity, here’s howJanuary 13, 2022.
Post Office offers several investment opportunities that provide impressive returns with the safety of the principal.
New Delhi: Post Office offers a slew of investment opportunities that provide impressive returns with the safety of the principal. In one such plan, named Gram Sumangal Rural Postal Life Insurance Scheme, offered by the Post Office, you can get about Rs 14 lakh at the time of maturity by investing Rs 95 daily. As the name suggests, the Gram Sumangal Rural Postal Life Insurance Scheme is best for investors living in rural areas. The scheme is a Money Back Policy with a maximum sum assured of Rs 10 lakhs, according to the Post Office’s website. According to Post Office, the scheme is best for investors who need periodical returns. Under the policy, survival benefits are also paid to the insurant periodically. Full sum assured with accrued bonus is payable to the assignee, nominee or the legal heir, in case of an unexpected death of the insurant.
Age limit in Gram Sumangal Yojana The minimum age to invest in Gram Sumangal Yojana is 19 years. The maximum age at entry is 40 years for 20 years’ term policy and 45 years for 15 years’ term policy in the Post Office scheme.
Bonus on maturity In the Gram Sumangal Yojana, the investor gets money back benefits which are available three times. A 20 per cent money back is available on the completion of six years, nine years and 12 years each in the 15-year policy. On maturity, the remaining 40 per cent of the money including the bonus is also provided to the investor.
How to get Rs 14 lakh by investing Rs 95 daily? If an investor aged 25 starts investing in the policy for 20 years with a sum insured of Rs 7 lakh, the monthly instalment will come at Rs 2853 or about Rs 95 daily. The annual premium, in this case, will be Rs 32,735.
Investors will receive Rs 1.4 lakh in the 8th, 12th and 16th years. In the 20th year, the benefit of the sum insured of Rs 2.8 lakh will be provided along with an annual bonus of Rs 48 per thousand. The total bonus will stand at Rs 6.72 lakh over a period of 20 years. On adding all the instalments and bonuses, investors will get a total of about Rs 13.72 lakh at the time of maturity.
Source : https://zeenews.india.com/personal-finance/post-office-scheme-invest-rs-95-daily-toget-about-rs-14-lakh-on-maturity-here-s-how-2427671.html
4.Management team acquires DHL's route planning tool Greenplan through a Management BuyoutJanuary 12, 2022
• Deutsche Post DHL Group has signed an agreement with current management team to divest Greenplan GmbH, a route planning solution provider owned by DHL.
• Greenplan's unique software solution enables route optimization with significant cost, time and CO2 savings for delivery and maintenance organizations worldwide. • The divestment will further accelerate the successful development of Greenplan.
Bonn - Deutsche Post DHL Group has announced the divestment of Greenplan GmbH, a DHL owned route planning solution provider, to current management team through a management buyout (MBO). Dr. Clemens Beckmann, CEO of Greenplan, has led the acquisition together with Florian Merget, former Head of Strategy and Business Development at Greenplan and now Co-owner with a 25% share and Managing Director of Greenplan GmbH. They will continue to manage and strategically develop Greenplan's business of cloud-based, dynamic route optimization. Greenplan provides an attractive solution for national and international logistics companies to improve business performance and customer satisfaction in an environment-friendly way.
"The commitment by Dr. Clemens Beckmann and Florian Merget to invest in and further develop the Greenplan solution, marks an important step in the successful growth story of Greenplan. With the management buyout the team will now accelerate the growth of that unique route planning solution provider", says Katja Busch, Chief Commercial Officer at DHL. "Smart route planning, based on a powerful algorithm, helps forwarders and customers with large fleets to optimize the utilization of their vehicles, to improve route planning, and ultimately reduce CO2 emissions by driving fewer kilometers." "Greenplan, having its roots in the world's leading logistics company DHL and the renowned Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn, Germany, has created a superior solution to improve the efficiency and reduce the costs of the transport industry, and making a big impact in fighting climate change", says Dr. Clemens Beckmann, CEO of Greenplan. "Together with the team we have the right industry knowledge, skill set and expertise needed to capture the global business opportunity. We are enthusiastic about this opportunity to drive the growth of Greenplan together as a team." "Tech company Greenplan started off as a research cooperation between DHL and the Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn in 2016, initially being a research project to optimize transportation and route planning for the world-leading logistics company DHL", Florian Merget says. "In the last years, Greenplan successfully expanded its customer base, solutions and won blue-chip external clients for its algorithm. We are confident that we can release our full potential going forward and grow into new markets. We are convinced that Greenplan has an excellent future." With the transaction Deutsche Post DHL Group is following its commitment to focus on its core business of transportation and logistics services; as Deutsche Post DHL does not consider the commercial scale-up of software start-ups to be a core activity. The new management will now lead the global scale-up of the business and further development of the algorithm, while DHL is looking forward to remain an important long-term customer.
Source : Deutsche Post DHL Group | Jan 12, 2022: Management team acquires DHL's route planning tool Greenplan through a Management Buyout (dpdhl.com)
5.Correos launches dedicated cargo airline January 07, 2022
The Spanish national postal agency, Correos, has established its own dedicated cargo airline. Initially, the company signed a joint-venture with Iberojet, which will operate two A330-300 freighters (passenger aircraft without seats) but is later planning to apply for its own Air Operator Certificate (AOC).
On 2 January, the first of the two A330s arrived back at Madrid after being painted at Dublin into a bright yellow Correos-livery. According to CH-Aviation, Iberojet is planning to convert the aircraft, EC-LXA (670) into a full A330-300P2F-freighter by the end of July. The second A330 is due to arrive later this year as well. Correos is planning to first utilise the aircraft on flights between Madrid and Hong Kong.
Source : https://www.scramble.nl/civil-news/correos-launches-dedicated-cargo-airline
1 POSTAL NEWS No 03-2022
Formulated by UNI Apro Post and Logistics Sector
1.UK Post Office: Our cash and banking offer performed very strongly. January 13, 2022.
2.Biden administration taps USPS and postal workers for distribution of COVID test kits. January 13, 2022.
3.Post Office Scheme: Invest Rs 95 daily to get about Rs 14 lakh on maturity, here’s how. January 13, 2022.
4.Management team acquires DHL's route planning tool Green plan through a Management Buyout. January 12, 2022.
5.Correos launches dedicated cargo airline. January 07, 2022.
1.UK Post Office: Our cash and banking offer performed very strongly January 13, 2022
UK Post Office today reports its key trading figures for the peak Christmas period from 29 November to 26 December 2021.
Because the Covid-19 restrictions in 2020 created exceptional demand for mails and parcels services, as people could not meet in person and sent cards and presents by post instead, the organisation has included comparisons with the pre-pandemic 2019 period where appropriate. In 2021, the pandemic continued to contribute to a challenging retail environment and reduced footfall on Britain’s High Streets. However, Post Office’s performance was resilient. There were 50.5 million customer transactions during the four-week period, down just 1.7% on the same period in 2019, before the pandemic, and down only 1.5% on 2020.
Total network income* for the four-week period was £73.8m. Compared with the same period in 2019, before the pandemic, this was an increase of 15%. Compared with the exceptional 2020 period it was a 5% fall.
Highlights § The week beginning Monday 13 December was our busiest week of the year, with 14.6m customer transactions. On Christmas Day itself, 65,000 transactions took place at Post Offices that were open, typically in convenience stores. § Network availability was as its highest level since before the pandemic, with 11,596 branches trading in December, almost 100 branches over our 11,500 requirements. § Over 3,100 Post Offices offered ‘Click and Collect’ services for DPD and Amazon for the first time. Around 70% of parcels were collected within one day of arriving at a Post Office branch. § Post Office launched new charity partnership with Trussell Trust, the charity that works to end the need for food banks in the UK, on 30 November, donating 1p from every over-thecounter cash withdrawal at branches and hoping to raise £250,000 for the charity. Post Office made excellent progress in reaching this target over the period.
Commenting on Christmas trading, Post Office Chief Executive, Nick Read, said: “Whilst the parcel market remains highly competitive and challenging, Post Offices have delivered a resilient performance in the face of Covid-19 restrictions, dramatic falls in footfall on our High Streets and general uncertainty about the cost of living. It’s a testament to the determination and hard work of Postmasters that so many remained open, providing essential services to their community, with well over 11,500 branches trading. “Our cash and banking offer performed very strongly, ensuring people could withdraw cash to spend locally on hospitality and gifts, and small businesses had somewhere open to deposit their takings. Our travel business goes from strength to strength and the recent relaxation in travel testing rules provides us with further opportunities to benefit commercially over the coming months. This year we will also expand our ‘Click and Collect’ services from 3,100 branches to over 6,000.”
Source : https://postandparcel.info/146210/news/e-commerce/uk-post-office-our-cash-and banking-offer-performed-very-strongly
2.Biden administration taps USPS and postal workers for distribution of COVID test kits January 13, 2022.
The Biden Administration has announced a program to mail at-home COVID test kits to every household that requests them. These kits could be mailed to as many as 160 million addresses. APWU members will be critical to the success of the program. “The APWU is excited and fully supports this plan,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. “It is in the interests of the health and wellbeing of the general population as this dangerous pandemic continues. It underscores the invaluable role of the public Postal Service in the lives of the people. It shines a light on the importance of maintaining universal service to every address and person. It opens up the opportunity for similar expanded ‘fulfilment’ work in the future.” APWU President Mark Dimondstein, Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman and Clerk Craft Director Lamont Brooks jointly worked with the Postal Service to secure a Memorandum of Understanding that defines the project as “new work” and ensures that the “fulfilment” work associated with packaging and labelling the packages for this temporary project is determined as clerk work. At the same time, the MOU gives the USPS the flexibility to keep holiday temporary workers on the rolls so as to increase the workforce capacity to make this project a success. The fulfillment work will be performed at 43 existing postal facilities throughout the country.
“APWU-represented clerk craft bargaining unit employees boldly accept the ‘new work’ opportunity to fulfill the distribution of the COVID test kits authorized by the Biden Administration’s call to action,” said Clerk Craft Director Lamont Brooks. “This is just another example of clerks, as part of the Postal Service institution, rising to the challenge of connecting the public during these difficult times while still carrying out our mission of processing the mail.” “This is an amazing opportunity to once again show the American people that we are here to serve them and how important the Postal Service is to this country. This proves we are ready and able to offer expanded services” stated Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman.
The APWU is ready to do our part. It will be up to the Biden Administration to ensure that the necessary number of test kits are quickly manufactured and that the ordering process for these kits is easily accessible for the people.
Source : https://apwu.org/news/biden-administration-taps-usps-and-postal-workersdistribution-covid-test-kits
3.Post Office Scheme: Invest Rs 95 daily to get about Rs 14 lakh on maturity, here’s howJanuary 13, 2022.
Post Office offers several investment opportunities that provide impressive returns with the safety of the principal.
New Delhi: Post Office offers a slew of investment opportunities that provide impressive returns with the safety of the principal. In one such plan, named Gram Sumangal Rural Postal Life Insurance Scheme, offered by the Post Office, you can get about Rs 14 lakh at the time of maturity by investing Rs 95 daily. As the name suggests, the Gram Sumangal Rural Postal Life Insurance Scheme is best for investors living in rural areas. The scheme is a Money Back Policy with a maximum sum assured of Rs 10 lakhs, according to the Post Office’s website. According to Post Office, the scheme is best for investors who need periodical returns. Under the policy, survival benefits are also paid to the insurant periodically. Full sum assured with accrued bonus is payable to the assignee, nominee or the legal heir, in case of an unexpected death of the insurant.
Age limit in Gram Sumangal Yojana The minimum age to invest in Gram Sumangal Yojana is 19 years. The maximum age at entry is 40 years for 20 years’ term policy and 45 years for 15 years’ term policy in the Post Office scheme.
Bonus on maturity In the Gram Sumangal Yojana, the investor gets money back benefits which are available three times. A 20 per cent money back is available on the completion of six years, nine years and 12 years each in the 15-year policy. On maturity, the remaining 40 per cent of the money including the bonus is also provided to the investor.
How to get Rs 14 lakh by investing Rs 95 daily? If an investor aged 25 starts investing in the policy for 20 years with a sum insured of Rs 7 lakh, the monthly instalment will come at Rs 2853 or about Rs 95 daily. The annual premium, in this case, will be Rs 32,735.
Investors will receive Rs 1.4 lakh in the 8th, 12th and 16th years. In the 20th year, the benefit of the sum insured of Rs 2.8 lakh will be provided along with an annual bonus of Rs 48 per thousand. The total bonus will stand at Rs 6.72 lakh over a period of 20 years. On adding all the instalments and bonuses, investors will get a total of about Rs 13.72 lakh at the time of maturity.
Source : https://zeenews.india.com/personal-finance/post-office-scheme-invest-rs-95-daily-toget-about-rs-14-lakh-on-maturity-here-s-how-2427671.html
4.Management team acquires DHL's route planning tool Greenplan through a Management BuyoutJanuary 12, 2022
• Deutsche Post DHL Group has signed an agreement with current management team to divest Greenplan GmbH, a route planning solution provider owned by DHL.
• Greenplan's unique software solution enables route optimization with significant cost, time and CO2 savings for delivery and maintenance organizations worldwide. • The divestment will further accelerate the successful development of Greenplan.
Bonn - Deutsche Post DHL Group has announced the divestment of Greenplan GmbH, a DHL owned route planning solution provider, to current management team through a management buyout (MBO). Dr. Clemens Beckmann, CEO of Greenplan, has led the acquisition together with Florian Merget, former Head of Strategy and Business Development at Greenplan and now Co-owner with a 25% share and Managing Director of Greenplan GmbH. They will continue to manage and strategically develop Greenplan's business of cloud-based, dynamic route optimization. Greenplan provides an attractive solution for national and international logistics companies to improve business performance and customer satisfaction in an environment-friendly way.
"The commitment by Dr. Clemens Beckmann and Florian Merget to invest in and further develop the Greenplan solution, marks an important step in the successful growth story of Greenplan. With the management buyout the team will now accelerate the growth of that unique route planning solution provider", says Katja Busch, Chief Commercial Officer at DHL. "Smart route planning, based on a powerful algorithm, helps forwarders and customers with large fleets to optimize the utilization of their vehicles, to improve route planning, and ultimately reduce CO2 emissions by driving fewer kilometers." "Greenplan, having its roots in the world's leading logistics company DHL and the renowned Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn, Germany, has created a superior solution to improve the efficiency and reduce the costs of the transport industry, and making a big impact in fighting climate change", says Dr. Clemens Beckmann, CEO of Greenplan. "Together with the team we have the right industry knowledge, skill set and expertise needed to capture the global business opportunity. We are enthusiastic about this opportunity to drive the growth of Greenplan together as a team." "Tech company Greenplan started off as a research cooperation between DHL and the Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn in 2016, initially being a research project to optimize transportation and route planning for the world-leading logistics company DHL", Florian Merget says. "In the last years, Greenplan successfully expanded its customer base, solutions and won blue-chip external clients for its algorithm. We are confident that we can release our full potential going forward and grow into new markets. We are convinced that Greenplan has an excellent future." With the transaction Deutsche Post DHL Group is following its commitment to focus on its core business of transportation and logistics services; as Deutsche Post DHL does not consider the commercial scale-up of software start-ups to be a core activity. The new management will now lead the global scale-up of the business and further development of the algorithm, while DHL is looking forward to remain an important long-term customer.
Source : Deutsche Post DHL Group | Jan 12, 2022: Management team acquires DHL's route planning tool Greenplan through a Management Buyout (dpdhl.com)
5.Correos launches dedicated cargo airline January 07, 2022
The Spanish national postal agency, Correos, has established its own dedicated cargo airline. Initially, the company signed a joint-venture with Iberojet, which will operate two A330-300 freighters (passenger aircraft without seats) but is later planning to apply for its own Air Operator Certificate (AOC).
On 2 January, the first of the two A330s arrived back at Madrid after being painted at Dublin into a bright yellow Correos-livery. According to CH-Aviation, Iberojet is planning to convert the aircraft, EC-LXA (670) into a full A330-300P2F-freighter by the end of July. The second A330 is due to arrive later this year as well. Correos is planning to first utilise the aircraft on flights between Madrid and Hong Kong.
Source : https://www.scramble.nl/civil-news/correos-launches-dedicated-cargo-airline
