Amtrak has won delivery contracts
Amtrak has won delivery contracts with electronics retailers Watford Electronics (right) and Empire Direct, both of which have major commerce operations
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Amtrak adds n Ireland options
Amtrak Express Parcels has extended its next-day service to Northern Ireland to provide before 9am, 10am and noon deliveries.
Read MoreAmtrak wins delivery contracts
Amtrak has won delivery contracts with electronics retailers Watford Electronics (right) and Empire Direct, both of which have major commerce operations.
Read MoreOntario Court of appeal upholds Canada Post’s position on re-mailers
Canada Post announced today that the Ontario Court of Appeal has unanimously upheld Canada Post Corporation’s exclusive privilege to collect, transmit and deliver letters in Canada, including letters from Canada to the rest of the world. Mr Justice Robert Blair delivered the unanimous decision of the court dismissing the appeal by Key Mail International Inc. who challenged Canada Post’s exclusive statutory privilege under the Canada Post Corporation Act with respect to the collection, transmission and delivery of mail in Canada. The issue was whether Canada Post’s exclusive privilege prohibits others from collecting and/or transmitting letters within Canada for purposes of delivery to destinations outside of Canada.
Read MorePostal reform won‘t deliver a truly competitive market
Comment on UK postal reform by John Blundell, director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs.
Read MoreDX hopes ‘take-all’ proves a winner
DX Services, the business mail group, said it was well- positioned to take advantage of full deregulation of the mail sector as it reported flat preliminary results for its first year since demerging from Hays, the recruitment company. The company expected to launch in November a “take-all” service that will collect all mail. At present, users have to post items to non-business customers separately, via the Royal Mail. There was little explanation for the resignation of Peter Brougham, chief executive, in mid-August but it was understood that some shareholders had been unhappy about the group’s strategy.
Read MorePublishers to compete with Deutsche Post
Three of Germany’s largest newspaper groups are joining forces to create what they say will become the largest competitor to Deutsche Post once the country’s postal market is fully opened to competition in 2008. Axel Springer, the publisher of the mass-market Bild tabloid, is teaming up with Georg von Holtzbrinck, publisher of the weekly Die Zeit and financial paper Handelsblatt, regional newspaper group WAZ and a private equity group from Luxembourg to set up a letter delivery group. The company, which will be run by Gunter Thiel, an experienced logistics manager, is aiming to increase its sales from an expected Euros 100m (Dollars 124m) in 2006 to Euros 1bn in 2010 by eating up market share of the former monopoly. It is the second group in a week to say it would enter the postal delivery market following Otto-Versand of Hamburg. Others are expected. The combination of three such powerful media groups – with total sales of more than Euros 6bn – highlights the attraction of a liberalised German market and illustrates why Deutsche Post has in recent years tried so hard to expand internationally and into new areas.
Read MoreCourier firm set for operational excellence in Nigeria
In its bid to the fastest and most reliable provider of express mail and logistics in the country, TNT/IAS has moved its mail operations to the mainland. Head, Corporate Affairs of the company, Mr Ifeanyi Nihe, said the decision to make some operational changes was aimed at improving its services, “TNT/IAS has always been a leading company to reckon with in terms of services. It is on record that the company is the first Nigerian company to fly cargo as express, first to establish an express training school, first to introduce overnight land shuttle delivery service’s to Lagos Island, Enugu and Abuja, just to mention a few”.
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