ParcelForce has started relinquishing some of its parcel contracts where the margins are too low. The move follows the restructuring plan announced earlier this year.
A spokesman said ParcelForce could not continue running two delivery networks, standard and express, so it is concentrating on building its express and international operations.
Business Post has been busy recewntly. This leading express carrier has re-organised itself into six distinct business units: these go under the titles of Express, HomeServe, International, UK Pallets, UK Today and UK Mail.
Read MoreThe FedEx Corporation will spend $1.8 billion to expand its small package carrier, FedEx Ground, by adding 10 hubs and enlarging 23 others, the company said yesterday. The project will increase the company’s capacity by the end of fiscal year 2009, to 4.8 million packages a day from 2.5 million.
Read MoreA KPMG study reveals that the market capacity in the UK is some 120,000 pallets a night and the pallet industry is nowhere near this capacity.
Read MoreThe future of Scotland’s postal service was the subject of a public meeting held in Aberdeen last night. Only 27 people attended the meeting, organised by postal regulator PostComm but a spokesman said the body was pleased with the turn out and high level of discussion.
Read MoreThe finances of state-owned Philippine Postal Corp. continued to deteriorate last year, posting a net loss of P199 million, up 342 percent from only P45 million in 2000.
Philpost attributed this to a decline in revenues — from P3.429 billion to P3.411 billion — and the escalation of operating expenditures, particularly on transportation services for both domestic and international mails.
Despite Philpost’s modernization efforts, the company is still swamped with complaints from customers about mail that arrive late or those that are not delivered at all.
But Philpost claims its mail delivery performance remains within acceptable international standards.
Read More“One of the longest searches for a Chief Executive in corporate Namibia ended yesterday with former NamPower top manager Hermanus Kasper being named as the new CEO of NamPost. The previous CEO, Abraham Kukuri, tendered his resignation from the State-owned company in July last year, saying he wanted to concentrate on farming, his ‘other passion in life’. Kukuri left his office last September and NamPost has been hunting for a new head ever since. Kasper is currently General Manager: NamPower Investments. He takes over at NamPost on November 1. ‘It has been a long and arduous process for the board of NamPost to find the right CEO,’ said NamPost board Chairperson Sebby Kankondi in a press release issued yesterday.” The Namibian: “Kankondi said he wanted Kasper to continue to turn NamPost into a dynamic organisation. ‘To survive in today’s volatile and competitive business environment, organisation need to react quickly and intelligently to changing business conditions and customer demands. We have to be innovative in every aspect of our business strategy,’ he said. As well as being the sole supplier of postal services in Namibia, NamPost has over 200 000 savings accounts, more than any other financial institution in the country. It is also busy with a national roll-out of digital technology, and is one of the few post offices on the continent to regularly turn in a profit.”
Read MoreThe Government came under attack yesterday for deliberately attempting to run down the post office network, particularly branches in rural areas. Ministers were accused of dithering over financial assistance to prevent further rural closures and also of drawing up plans to make it as difficult as possible for benefit claimants to continue receiving payments through their local post office.
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