Parcelforce Worldwide, the lossmaking express package arm of the British Royal Mail Group, is to relaunch an experimental evening home delivery service in the New Year, writes Roger Hailey.
Managing director Vanessa Leeson confirmed that Parcelforce was talking to customers about restarting 1800 hrs until 2100 hrs home deliveries following the suspension of a previous trial earlier this year.
Read MoreA senior British logistics executive has warned that acquisitive European post offices risk repeating the mistakes of leading shipping lines and freight forwarders.
Edward Roderick, group chief executive of Christian Salvesen, said that forwarders and the lines “expanded into areas which they perceived as similar to their own core competencies.
“But then they quickly had to retract, losing their shareholders significant value in the process.”
Read MoreFijians could soon be receiving bank statements in days rather than weeks and paying telephone and other bills over the Net following a deal between NZ Post subsidiary Datamail and Fiji Post.
Datamail general manager of business and customer management David Allen says the contact to supply bulk mail technology could be worth “some millions of dollars” over the next two or three years.
Read MoreA dispute threatening chaos to Christmas mail across Ireland today looked close to resolution as union chiefs considered a new pay deal.
Leaders of the Irish Postmasters Union, which last week rejected an offer by postal company An Post, were today studying a compromise package drawn up over the weekend.
Read MoreThe mail & express services draft bill being discussed in the Congress establishes that private couriers would not operate with postal packages less than 2 Kg, that should be handled by the company to succeed the government mail service Ipostel. Thus private couriers would be upgraded and render expensive services, keeping a segment for the government postal services. Moreover, private couriers are to pay 1% – 5% of their gross income as a licensee fee.
Read MorePlans by the postal regulator, PostComm, to limit how much Royal Mail can charge rivals to use its network have been attacked by Allan Leighton, the company’s chairman as “unrealistic, flawed and totally unacceptable”. Leighton says that these latest proposals, along with separate caps on postage prices, will cost Royal Mail pounds 760m and will threaten its continued ability to deliver to every home and business in the UK. He is this weekend writing to all 659 MPs to ask their help in fighting PostComm’s stance.
Read MoreUPS will be allowed to continue its $230-million NAFTA case over what it says are unfair business practices by Canada Post Corp., but a tribunal threw out parts of the claim yesterday. United Parcel Service says it will retool the complaint and keep the entire case alive, while government officials said they believe the tribunal decision significantly narrows the grounds on which UPS can proceed.
Read MoreUSPS unveils electronic stamp they plan to sell to certify authenticity and delivery time of emails. The technology, called “electronic postmarks,” will not necessarily end the era of free e-mail. But it does create a “first-class” version with a small delivery charge. The postmarks are likely to be used to transmit sensitive documents, for instance, to authenticate the sender and reassure the recipient.
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