In 1996 Slovak Post embarked upon a "Project for the development of the postal service to the year 2000", the aim of which is to improve and accelerate the modernisation of postal services. One of the key elements within this modernisation is the "Logistics Project". This, again, was initiated in 1996 and will be completed in November of this year. Its first stages saw improvements in the postal transport network and in the number of sorting offices. In the past a letter might be sorted as many as seven times - at mail-handling centres and in trains and vans - before...