Hays DX today launched Total Mail Solutions — a collection service that finds the most cost effective method of sorting and delivering company letters and parcels.
DX, part of the Hays PLC logistics and business services group, is promising major cost savings over conventional postal routes, as well as improved reliability.
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Read MoreDeutsche Post AG, the German postal operator, is looking to take over transportation for several large European companies. The company said that it is engaged in valuable talks with four companies at present, but chairman Klaus Zumwinkel refused to name them.
Read MoreConsignia has announced the first stage of its recovery plan involving the restructure of the parcels business, rationalisation of transport operations giving combined cost savings of £460 million. Further management, support service and operational savings are also identified. 15,000 jobs will go, 13,000 through redeployment or redundancy. Consignia will restructure its loss making parcels and express business Parcelforce Worldwide, and make radical changes to its internal logistics and transport networks as the first moves in a three year renewal programme to cut costs by more than £1.2 billion and provide a secure long term foundation for the company and for universal postal services in the UK.
Read MoreConsignia, the renamed Post Office, is preparing to give the most generous mass redundancy package ever offered by the government, the Sunday Times said without citing sources.
The company is setting aside as much as 400 mln pounds to cover thousands of job losses, the paper added.
Allan Leighton, Consignia’s chairman, is tomorrow expected to unveil the long-awaited restructuring of the postal network that will eventually result in 30,000 workers losing their jobs or being transferred to the private sector, the Sunday Times went on.
Deutsche Post World Net AG will have to lower its postage rate by 0.01 eur this year, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported, in an article to be published tomorrow, without citing sources.
This is much smaller than the 0.06 eur cut called for by Germany’s post and telecommunications regulator RegTP.
CONSIGNIA is losing money. The most recent estimates point towards losses of pounds 1.5 million a day.
More importantly for our customers, we’re also not delivering the kind of service they expect and soon the most profitable parts of our business will be opened up directly to competition.
Against this background, we simply cannot continue to operate as we have in the past.Our market is chang-ing, thegrowth of mail which brought increased profits in the 1990s is slowing and we now have a regulator who will impose fines if we continue to under-perform. And our customers, who already have the option of other communication channels like fax and email, will very soon be able to choose other mail operators as well.
Read MoreThe post office appears headed for a midsummer rate increase – perhaps 3 cents more to mail a letter – after winning near-unanimous agreement from businesses and organizations that usually fight vigorously to prevent higher postal rates. Without the usual opposition, the independent Postal Rate Commission gave speeded-up consideration to the Postal Service’s request for new rates. The commission was issuing its decision Friday.
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