New Zealand Post has become a successful, innovative global company focusing on parcel delivery, logistics and other businesses.
Focused incentives are critical since the only bright spots in the service's business are in its most competitive, such as parcel delivery.
Airports, the national airline, a diamond mine, a parcel delivery service and a forestry company are all due to go under the hammer.
In addition to its traditional services of letter and parcel delivery, the Post Office now provides services such as e-commerce fulfilment, billing and customer management, logistics and warehousing.
All four firms are adapting to diminished traffic in letters and important documents because of e-mail, and the growing demand for parcel delivery to end-consumers generated by e-commerce sites such as Amazon.
FedEx now has a leading position in the ground parcel-delivery business, especially in America.
UPS, the world's biggest parcel-delivery service, from New York to Paris, France, than to Anchorage, Alaska (see table).
Yamato Transport, which found a way round government regulations that prevented trucking companies from operating nationwide, has close to half of the parcel-delivery business in Japan and is now spreading abroad.
David Mirambeau, 29, was making a delivery for United Parcel Service Inc. when he mistook the gunshot for a blown tire.
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Even after decades of traveling the same streets, UPS is using global positioning satellites along with parcel-volume data to remap delivery areas.
And to me that means seasonal bumps in demand for the shipping and delivery services from United Parcel Service (UPS) and FedEx (FDX).
Research by Consumer Focus Scotland last year suggested that almost one in three people have difficulties getting their parcel because of inconvenient opening hours at local delivery offices.
The Airbus A380 was once the bright hope of EADS despite its controversial double-decker design, but between 2005 and 2006 manufacturing problems and delivery delays saw customers like Federal Express and United Parcel Service angrily cancel their orders.
Last year, FedEx took aim directly at United Parcel Service, the longtime ground market leader with a 77% share, by offering home package delivery by ground.
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