The Italian perspective

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 01 Mar 2008, 13:53

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/b ... 463280.ece

As Royal Mail closes post offices, its counterpart in Italy is expanding and moving into profit by adopting a strategy that Royal Mail bosses might wish to consider.

The Italian postal turnaround offers an example of go-ahead enterprise in a country that, on the whole, is mired in gloomy predictions of decline, low growth, stagnation and instability. How has this unlikely miracle been achieved? Massimo Sarmi, the chief executive of Poste Italiane, is reluctant to boast, let alone to offer advice to Royal Mail - but at his office near the Trevi Fountain he offers a vision of the post office as a â€œone-stop shopâ€

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 01 Mar 2008, 13:58

As mentioned in the article here is a link to the site http://www.poste.it/ (puts RM to shame I think)

pinstripe · Post by **pinstripe** » 01 Mar 2008, 14:03

Very interesting, but is the Italian Postal Service being deliberately run down so it can be privatised? This sort of foresight would give Leighton and Crozier nightmares.

apple · Post by **apple** » 01 Mar 2008, 14:56

guess they don't face competition yet then

Post by **POSTMAN** » 01 Mar 2008, 18:56

Posted it up a while back,they do know what they're doing.

http://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/forum/vi ... .php?t=516

BELIAL · Post by **BELIAL** » 01 Mar 2008, 18:59

Their railways are very good to

norbert · Post by **norbert** » 02 Mar 2008, 01:02

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:As mentioned in the article here is a link to the site http://www.poste.it/ (puts RM to shame I think)

RM Group PLC , lack of imagination and vision , one idea i.e . slash and burn ,negative , favoured third party deals,privatization through the back door -well I never

Night Tonic · Post by **Night Tonic** » 02 Mar 2008, 01:08

the 'slash and burn' is the solution to neglect.

billyb8 · Post by **billyb8** » 02 Mar 2008, 12:06

macfan wrote:guess they don't face competition yet then

Not true all our international competitors operate there. TNT, FEDEX, DHL etc. But they have far more DSA than here. As in the article I posted last month, The main thing the competitors deliver are bulk items and incoming registered mail.