Target Express this week announced details of its new Sameday parcels service that uses National Express for the trunk haul. The budget price is a flat rate of £69 anywhere in the UK, provided that collection and delivery are within 25 miles of a coach drop point.
Read MoreTarget Express of the UK has linked up with coach company National Express to offer its Sameday parcel delivery service.
Read MoreChina has upped the ante in its fight with foreign express providers, prohibiting them from carrying personal letters and most official documents.
“International delivery companies will be allowed to carry express documents and document-type items into and out of the country, but not personal letters, nor documents from (Communist) party, government or military bodies at the county level or above,” said a joint statement from China’s Ministry of Information Industry, Foreign Trade Ministry and State Postal Bureau, known as China Post.
Read MoreDenmark’s Ministries of Finance and Traffic have initiated a research group to report on the sale of a 25 per cent stake in Post Danmark during 2003. According to the head of the Danish governments traffic ministry, Michael Birk, the aim is to have the shares in the post sold no later than the third quarter of 2003.
Read MoreThe government has decided on 14 members of a preparatory committee to set up a public corporation to take over state-run postal services, the posts minister said Thursday. Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama said he will officially appoint the 14 members Friday.
Read MoreUnited Parcel Service Inc.’s annual sales in China doubled to about $200 million in the year after the world’s largest package-delivery company began its own flights to Beijing and Shanghai. The company started the flights to those cities in April 2001 and plans to increase the number of representative offices in China to at least 20 by the end of next year from five now, said company Chief Operating Officer Tom Weidemeyer in an interview.
Read MoreToday’s meeting of the price control commission has, once again, not reached a decision on the proposal for rate modifications submitted by Österreichische Post AG.
Read MoreFedEx Express (FedEx), the express transportation company, will offer its money-back guarantee to customers throughout China. It will be the first and only international express carrier to offer a money-back guarantee in the China market.
This latest move comes at a time of quick expansion by FedEx’s major global competitor, United Parcel Service (UPS), in China.
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