Mail, express and logistics company TPG N.V.’s TPG Post UK subsidiary has signed an agreement with Royal Mail that will give it access to Royal Mail’s 73 mail centres and delivery network in the UK.
Read MoreSenate Governmental Affairs Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, has laid out an “aggressive timetable” for a Postal Service overhaul bill, saying she plans to introduce bipartisan legislation with Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., by the end of the month.
Read MoreDeutsche Post, the German postal service operator, has sent a letter to Germany’s minister of economy and all regional prime ministers in which it outlines plans to open up to 1,500 new outlets in order to improve services in villages and small towns.
Read Moreemail from Paul Jackson: I hadn’t heard the statistic quoted by Roger Higginson at our recent meeting that 77% of the UK mail is below 50gms. I assume it was the UK or was it the EU? Is this a confidential figure?
Response from David Robottom: It was an EU statistic. The volume below 50g within UK is a great deal smaller than 77%. It is a matter of public record and came from CTCON’s research for the commission a few years ago.
Postcomm chief executive Martin Stanley today welcomed the access agreement between Royal Mail and TPG Post UK Ltd under which Royal Mail will deliver post ‘the final mile’ for the Dutch company. Mr Stanley said: “This is another significant step forward for competition in the UK postal market, and a sign that the industry is growing increasingly confident that the access arrangements, driven by Postcomm, will deliver benefits to the customer. We expect other deals to follow.”
Read MoreRoyal Mail has signed an access agreement with TPG Post UK providing the Dutch company with access to Royal Mail’s local sorting and delivery network.
Under the agreement, TPG Post UK will collect mail from its business customers and transport it to one of Royal Mail’s 73 Mail Centres around the UK for final sorting work. Royal Mail will then take the mail to its delivery offices, from where it will be delivered by Royal Mail’s 80,000 postmen and women.
Read MoreMail, express and logistics company TPG N.V.’s TPG Post UK subsidiary
has signed an agreement with Royal Mail that will give it access to Royal
Mail’s 73 mail centres and delivery network in the UK. For letters under 60g in weight, the access charge to Royal Mail’s 73 inward mail centres for TPG Post UK for 2004/05 has been agreed at 13.0p (for letters already sorted to each of Royal Mail’s 1,450 delivery offices) and 13.375p (for letters already sorted to each of Royal Mail’s 121 postcode areas).
International express courier DHL plans a major reorganisation that could threaten nearly half its 950-strong workforce at its global headquarters in Brussels, the Belgian press said Tuesday. The German-owned company is planning to sack 173 people at its complex at the Belgian capital’s Zavantem airport, and move another 177 posts to its European headquarters at Bonn, the Belga news agency said. Another 98 posts could be moved elsewhere in the world, it said.
The head of DHL in Belgium and Luxembourg, Frank Beuselinck, told AFP that it was premature to talk of job losses.
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