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The Hague – PostNL has reached a final agreement with the trade unions. It was agreed that the Social Plan of PostNL is extended until 31 December 2015. This provides clarity for all employees who face or will be facing reorganisations during this period. Under the agreement, the new Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) for Saturday deliverers, the new CLA for PostNL Parcels and the pension arrangement for mail deliverers have also been adopted. Furthermore, parties have concluded that PostNL has met the obligations as laid down in the agreement on the reduction of forced redundancies.

The Hague – PostNL Post Offices will be offering a new service: money transfers via MoneyGram. The leading global money transfer company MoneyGram has been offering customers the possibility to send or receive money easily, fast and reliably worldwide for decades already. Various research shows that many customers are expecting the possibility to do money transfers at post offices. With products from MoneyGram, PostNL Post Offices give customers and business customers the possibility to transfer cash to family, employees or companies within the country or abroad. Customers can transfer or retrieve up to € 2000 without the need of a bank account or credit card; only valid identification is necessary. Today, a customer did the first official transaction at the Post office at Kerkplein in The Hague. The MoneyGram service is already available at more than 30 Post Offices in The Netherlands. PostNL has the intention to expand the service to 500 post offices.

The Hague – Yesterday, PostNL reached an agreement in principle with the unions on a number of subjects including an extension of the Social Plan for two years.

The Hague – PostNL is issuing special stamps in honour of 400,000 blood donors in the Netherlands. This stamp sheetlet shows the relationship between blood donor and patient. The first issue of this stamp sheetlet has been handed over to Aart van Os, chairman of the Board of Management of Sanquin Blood Supply by Yme Pasma, director of the PostNL Consumer Market department. This took place done on 14 June, World Blood Donor Day, at the Sanquin head office in Amsterdam.

Lelystad – ANWB, BAM, Eneco, PostNL, the Government of the Netherlands and Siemens have joined forces to organise the first electric Drivers Challenge; a competition for safe and economical driving for their drivers. The aim of the competition is to draw attention to safe and economical driving in a fun but competitive way. The organising parties also wish to underline their confidence in the future of electric vehicles.

The Hague – Ten millers, the patron of mill Rhine and Lek and also the mayor of Wijk bij Duurstede received the first issue of a stamp sheetlet from Annerie Lekkerkerker, director of the PostNL department Consumers and Small Businesses. Each miller also received a stamp with his own windmill on it. The event took place at one of the mills on the stamps: Molen Rijn and Lek, in Wijk bij Duurstede. The stamp sheetlet contains ten different mill types from all over the Netherlands. The oldest one, the Grafelijke Torenmolen in Zeddam, dates back to around 1450 and the youngest one is the Hiemertermole in Burgwerd, which is a rebuilt windmill from 1975. The stamp sheetlet was created in close collaboration with De Hollandsche Molen. This national association is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year.

The Hague – PostNL has taken note with great interest of the vision of the postal market of minister Kamp of Economic Affairs. In a reaction, PostNL says it is pleased with the proposed measures to ensure the Universal Service Obligation (USO) remains cost efficient , available and reliable. The proposed measures help making the USO profitable.

The Hague – PostNL expects underlying cash operating income of €50 - €90 million in 2013 (earlier range: €20 - €60 million).

The Hague – PostNL is introducing a number of changes to postal stamp rates as of 1 August 2013. The tariff increases are, together with rigorous cost savings, necessary to compensate for the expected volume decline of 8-10% to secure the cost recovery and affordability of mail delivery. The basic rate for letters within the Netherlands will become €0.60, an increase of 6 euro cents. The business rates will also increase as of 1 August.

The Hague – Earlier today in the museum, Robin Boon, Corporate Communications director at PostNL, presented Petra Teunissen-Nijsse, president of the Couperus Society (Dutch: Couperus Genootschap) and Caroline de Westenholz, chairman of the foundation Louis Couperus Museum in The Hague, with the first stamps commemorating Dutch writers. The sheet comprises ten stamps bearing the portraits of five famous Dutch writers: Louis Couperus, Adriaan Roland Holst, Godfried Bomans, Simon Carmiggelt and Gerrit Kouwenaar. The stamps pay homage to these writers and feature typical quotes and pithy sayings. The five were not only selected for their literary status, but also because 2013 marks a special birthday for each of the authors. The Louis Couperus Society has also nominated 2013 as Louis Couperus Jubilee Year.

The Hague – The members of BVPP, Abvakabo FNV and CNV Publieke Zaak have approved the agreement in principle for the CLA for mail deliverers.

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The Hague – On 1 May 2013, PostNL will issue two inauguration stamps on the occasion of the inauguration of King Willem-Alexander. The newest inauguration stamps differ from their predecessors (1898, 1948, 1980) in several important respects: they are smaller and self-adhesive, and the design is typographical. PostNL will issue the permanent stamp later this year in honour of the new King.

The Hague – Today, PostNL N.V.’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) adopted the 2012 financial statements of the company and determined the dividend over 2012 at € 0.181 per ordinary share, which has been paid as an interim dividend in shares in August 2012. No final dividend will be paid out.

The Hague - PostNL has reached an agreement in principle on a one year collective labour agreement (CLA) for mail deliverers with trade unions BVPP, Abvakabo FNV and CNV Publieke Zaak. This CLA offers a salary increase to the employees that have been working for PostNL for a longer period. The starting salary continues to follow the minimum wage.

The Hague – In the run-up to the Koningsspelen (King’s games) on 26 April, PostNL Parcels will deliver some 6,500 festive parcels and over 1.3 million T-shirts to all participating primary schools. PostNL will also deliver the certificates to these schools. The parcels will require more than 20 truck loads.