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Post apocalypse – Poste Italiane’s IPO
- Gys 11y agoTruly a great choice for an image to go with the article. Its from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Postino:_The_Postman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Postino:_The_Postman I love that movie ! Being a romantic poet is all about talking in metaphors ;-)
- kfk 11y agoDidn't watch it, not sure I can, Troisi died in the making of that movie overworking himself to death (he had a heart condition). He was probably the last of the big starts of the Italian cinema, we are still waiting for a new Troisi.
- kalleboo 11y agoA few random comments on things not touched upon by the article - Japan Post, mentioned in the article, also has large banking and insurance arms - The Swedish postal service (now PostNord) has a large banking operation which was divested in the privatisation process in the 90's. I assume similar things happened to the other European postal services compared to in the table/article. I guess what's going to happen in Italy is the same thing where the profitable financial stuff will be snapped up and postal service will continue to limp along. - In most countries I've visited I've preferred the old "traditional" postal operator to newcomer courier services for parcel delivery. In Sweden, parcel companies would always force you to miss a day of work to stay home, and then avoid ringing your doorbell, etc... bad service overall. Here in Australia, TNT (who deliver for Apple) would not even deliver within 50 km of where I live, and had to leave my parcel with a newsagent 50 km away "who they usually leave packages with in difficult cases like this". In both cases, the traditional mail services (Posten/PostNord and Australia Post) have far more location and can leave packages for pick-up nearby. It seems like the issue is making better service more profitable. Perhaps residential customers are all a loss?