Following consultation, Postcomm today approved a modification to the interim postal licence held by UK Mail Ltd.
The modification will allow UK Mail to carry out a wider range of activities for its existing business customers in the event of industrial action by Royal Mail workers, or an emergency or a natural disaster.
Q-Post will today open a new post office in the town of Al Khertiyat, north of Doha, and later, another state-of-the-art post office in the Old Airport (Matar Qadeem) area, Ali Mohammad Al Ali chairman of the General Postal Corporation (GPC), said yesterday.
Read MoreExpress parcel distributors Nightspeed Services are investing a total of £6 million in a fleet of 300 Mercedes Sprinter vans.
Read MoreDHL Worldwide announced today the launch of DHL Toolbar, the industry’s first ever Internet Explorer based tracking device, enabling customers to access real-time tracking information with just two clicks from their Internet Explorer toolbar.
Read MoreThe EU Commission approved Deutsche Post World Net’s purchase of Lufthansa Cargo’s shares of DHL International, and thus an increase in ownership to over 75%. Deutsche Post World Net plans to complete full acquisition of DHL by the end of this year.
Read MoreA new bilateral aviation agreement just negotiated by Hong Kong and the United States will remove a major impediment to world economic growth, according to the chairman and CEO of UPS.
Read MoreThe Swiss Post Office has announced plans to drastically reduce its mail processing centres and cut 2,500 jobs.
Under the proposals, which still need final confirmation by the board of directors, the country’s 18 mail sorting centres would be closed and replaced by only three units.
Late and lost mail cost businesses Pounds 450million last year, a report by Postwatch revealed yesterday.
Over half of companies said delays affected them. Some 7.3 per cent said they were “dissatisfied” with Royal Mail.
But over eight out of ten were “satisfied”.
The Royal Mail said: “For the past 15 months, nine out of ten first class letters have been arriving the next working day.”
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