The European Commission is committed to full liberalisation of postal services across Europe by 2006.
The privatization of currency can be analogized to that of the privatization of postal services.
Although fast-growing, the regional e-commerce market is hampered by low credit-card use and poor postal services.
The Lords, meanwhile have Third Reading debates on the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill and the Postal Services Bill.
Many European countries, as well as New Zealand and Japan, have already privatised or liberalised their postal services.
Postal services are being liberalised around the world and new electronic services such as e-mail are developing fast.
Witness the struggles of postal services, newspapers, publishing companies, broadcast networks, retail video outlets, music producers, and many more.
EU. The struggle to liberalise European postal services may be just as hard-fought.
Berne used to be a major departure point for postal services and stagecoaches.
Many postal services rely on name-matching software to pick out packages for inspection.
He said that the first wave of job cuts was not connected to plans to liberalise the postal services market.
Mr Swinney insisted the new approach would improve the running of energy, telecommunications, postal services, water and the rail industry.
Jersey's competition regulator announced plans to remove price controls on stamps as part of a more relaxed regulation of postal services.
It has set out goals of developing a more competitive telecoms market, liberalising postal services and working more closely with Guernsey.
BBC: Plans outlined for Jersey Post to have more competition
Chiefs at Postwatch Wales, the consumer watchdog for postal services, have already expressed their worry about the future of the Post Office.
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The threat of competition associated with monopoly repeal has helped postal services in those countries to become more efficient, more effective enterprises.
Nor can it buy companies as freely as postal services in Europe, Canada or Asia have been doing for the past decade.
The European Postal Services Act reserves letters of less than 100g for national mail operators but this restriction will be lifted in 2007.
Under Mr Barroso the Commission has sought to liberalise markets in areas where it has power to do so - especially telecoms, energy and postal services.
It estimated that half the amount spent by the average family on postal services was the cost of sending large letters and small parcels.
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Postal services are being liberalised around the world as new services such as e-mail, fax and data transfer have begun to erode traditional markets.
He has argued that greater thought should be given to how postal services are delivered to country parishes, and believes a network of sub-post offices should be maintained.
BBC: Plans outlined for Jersey Post to have more competition
Sadly, the parliament is likely to insist on far-reaching amendments to the law that may mean it excludes areas such as health, the media, postal services, electricity, water and gas.
The debate over market opening is an opportunity to find out what people really want from their postal services and a chance to rethink how they work, says Michael Critelli, the boss of Pitney Bowes, a company that makes postal equipment and software.
The government printing offices will go later this year, and the state-owned postal and railway services are next in line.
It lengthened the time for paying unemployment benefits to older workers, offered pensioners relief from rising prices and introduced minimum wages in half a dozen industries, including postal and security services.
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There is disagreement in Congress on whether legislation stops the Postal Service from cutting Saturday services.
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Restrictions on how much Channel Island postal companies can charge for stamps and other services will be removed under plans by the regulator.
BBC: Guernsey and Jersey post stamp price controls 'should go'
Mobile commerce is driving the requirement for mobile remote payments, creating new revenue potential for businesses involved in the value chain including Communications Service Providers, banks and credit card companies, transport operators and merchants and also postal operators who have diversified by offering banking services and mobile services through their vast networks.
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