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Internet top source for home-delivery orders

Posted by | Jul 27, 2006 | |

Over half of all home-delivery shoppers say they place orders online, compared to under a quarter two years ago. The findings come from a report by retail authority Verdict Research into the home-delivery business. The GBP 37bn business has been in a state of steady decline despite booming sales through online and TV shopping. While Internet sales have increased 28.9%, they have been unable to counter the losses in the mail order and door-to-door sales sector.

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Masterlink Express receives an award in the prestigious Europroduct competition

Posted by | Jul 26, 2006 | |

Masterlink Express received the prestigious Europroduct 2006 award in the Service category for The Monitored Tender Delivery service.

This years edition of the Europroduct competition has just finished. The competition grants distinctions to companies, which offer their services to big, medium and small sized firms and to individual contractors. These services should ensure complex customer service in all activities, as well as fulfill the European and global markets expectations.

It is our great pleasure to inform you that Masterlink Express was awarded the Europroduct 2006 title in the Service category for the bespoke Monitored Tender Delivery service. The idea of the Monitored Tender Delivery service is to cover the demand of Masterlinks regular customers for prompt delivery of business materials, especially tender offers.

This service is available only for regular Masterlink clients, who have signed agreements with the company. The service is realized in compliance with a specially created procedure. The customer, when ordering this service, is certain that Masterlink will preferentially treat his/her parcel, which during the whole process of shipment is monitored and is additionally distinct from other parcels by a differently marked envelope. The importance of such a parcel is also underlined by the instant communication within the company, which means providing the customer with information about the successful delivery maximum 2 hours after the service realization.

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Masters Pharmaceutical chooses DHL as primary small package transporatation provider

Posted by | Jul 26, 2006 | |

DHL, the world’s leading express delivery and logistics company, today announced it has been selected by Masters Pharmaceutical, a pharmaceutical sales, marketing and distribution company, as its primary provider for next-day delivery services. Masters Pharmaceutical recently switched from a two-day delivery service program to next-day service with DHL in order to better serve Masters’ growing customer base. Working within a highly competitive industry, Masters Pharmaceutical recognizes the benefits of offering the highest level of service to its more than 6,000 customers.

Masters Pharmaceutical distributes nationwide from a centrally located distribution facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. Through a customized late pickup service by DHL, Masters Pharmaceutical is able to fulfill orders late in the evening for next-day delivery to pharmacies nationwide.

“Masters Pharmaceutical is one of many customers that is enhancing its business model through successfully leveraging DHL’s domestic air network and expansive portfolio of services,” said Janet Flores, area vice president of sales at DHL. “By providing customers, large and small, access to dedicated support, customized solutions, and reliable expedited logistics, DHL can help give these companies the opportunity to offer their customers a high level of delivery service.”

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RR Donnelley Logistics Launches OneSite(SM) Mailing Campaign Progress Tracking Tool

Posted by | Jul 26, 2006 | |

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company today launched OneSite(SM), a comprehensive web tool that offers customers the ability to see where their materials are throughout the mail stream — instantaneously. The first product to combine post-production shipment tracking and United States Postal Service(R) (USPS(R)) network tracking into one synchronized report, OneSite provides a diverse new range of tracking and reporting tools designed to maximize opportunities for customers to capitalize on mailing campaign effectiveness.

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TNT Close To Announcing Logistics Unit Sale

Posted by | Jul 26, 2006 | |

Dutch postal and express company TNT NV is close to selling its logistics division, several people familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires Wednesday.
Some of those people said private equity firms PAI Management and Apollo Management LP are on the shortlist for the unit.
However, it wasn’t clear Wednesday if there may be another strategic buyer involved in the process.

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Ceska posta takes mail high-tech

Posted by | Jul 26, 2006 | |

In an effort to stay on the cutting edge of mobile communication, the national postal service, Ceska posta, has come up with a new service that will transform pictures sent through multimedia message service (MMS) technology into regular printed postcards.
“Travelers or anyone else can send us pictures and text messages via MMS, an e-mail or by placing it on a Web portal (doschranky.cz), and Ceska posta will transform the picture into a regular postcard and deliver it,” said Ivo Mravinac, spokesman for the company.
After a monthlong testing period, in which hundreds of people took advantage of the offer, Ceska posta introduced personalized postcards July 24. Clients can use the service by sending messages and pictures over e-mail to [email protected] with their phones or computers or by posting them onto a Web portal.

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GLS breathing down Austrian Post's neck

Posted by | Jul 26, 2006 | |

GLS, the European parcel subsidiary of Britain’s Royal Mail, is stepping up competitive pressure on Austrian Post through co-operation with the fuel station chain OMV, the Wiener Zeitung reported.

GLS is to open parcel shops in 180 OMV fuelling stations, country manager Klaus Schädle said. Together with parcel shops in other establishments, GLS will then have a total of 450 collection and drop-off points in Austria. This means that every third post office is now in direct competition with a GLS outlet. The parcels company said that half of its parcel shops are in communities where the post office has been closed down.

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Open mind for An Post

Posted by | Jul 26, 2006 | |

AN Post has rejected claims it is closing post offices across the country.

The Labour Party claimed the number of outlets has dropped to just 1,295 over the past six years.

But An Post said 1,545 remain open – a reduction of 369 that would decrease as some offices reopen.

A spokeswoman added some new offices were being opened in growing suburban areas.

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