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Now Consignia wants to use your home as a postal depot

Posted by | Mar 10, 2002 | |

Consignia, formerly the Post Office, has sent leaflets to thousands of private homes over the past few weeks asking for volunteers to let their houses be used as temporary delivery depots, or ‘safe drops’.

The scheme works like this: sacks of letters are left at the safe drop house by Royal Mail van drivers. When the postman has finished his first round, instead of going back to the depot, he collects another sack of post from the safe drop.

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Time for Post Office users to fight back

Posted by | Mar 9, 2002 | |

AS A concerned postman/driver of nearly 18 years service, I feel the need to inform the public of the real impact the postal regulator’s proposals will have on your publiclyowned postal service.

Postcomm has ignored the warnings given by the National Audit Office report Opening the Post.

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Postal deregulation will hit countryside and the elderly

Posted by | Mar 9, 2002 | |

AS a customer who does not live in close range of a branch, I feel very strongly about the postal regulator’s plans to sell off the Post Office.

There will be many private firms only too willing to deliver bulk mail to towns and cities, but where will that leave people living in areas where there are only a few houses?

Does the regulator really think that the Post Office can ever survive once it has granted licences for private firms to cherry-pick, leaving just the unprofitable deliveries?

I think that every MP will know that it is impossible for the Post Office to compete on these terms.

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IPC UNEX Results 2001 – Europe’s letter mail maintains a high-quality delivery

Posted by | Mar 8, 2002 | |

International Post Corporation (IPC) members maintained their high-quality delivery performance for international letters last year, despite disruptions to air transport and security alerts following the events of September 11.
During 2001, an average of 92 per cent of European air mail letters reached their final destination within three days of posting. According to quality of service monitoring results just released by IPC’s UNEX system, more Postal operators are now meeting EU targets on mail streams where few, or no direct transport links are available. During 2001, over three-quarters of the 306 country-to-country streams monitored by UNEX were achieving at least 85 per cent
of deliveries within three days, compared with just one-third in 1994 when monitoring began, and one half in 1997.

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Bollore 2001 turnover

Posted by | Mar 8, 2002 | |

The French Bollore Group, which embraces SDV and Delmas, the transport and logistics companies, posted a turnover of Eur 5.121 billion in the financial year 2001.

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Framptons Company Profile

Posted by | Mar 8, 2002 | |

Investing in expensive heavy trucks can only be justified where they are guaranteed to run every day — ideally 24 hours a day — and hauliers must try to limit their exposure to risk.
That’s the opinion of Paul Frampton, director of Shepton Mallet-based Framptons, who points out that in his business, heavy trucks cost the most, but make the lowest margin.

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Why the medium to long-term is good to very good for Lufthansa

Posted by | Mar 8, 2002 | |

LUFTHANSA Cargo has come out with a confidenceboosting assessment of the medium- and long-term prospects for the global airfreight market.
Its views on the industry’s future are spelt out in a new, unique, worldwide study which the all-cargo airline conducted in cooperation with consulting firm MergeGlobal (MGI).
It predicts that the worldwide air cargo industry will experience a strong growth surge next year as it pulls out of the nosedive which started in 2000 and gathered pace last year.

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DTi accused of delaying Consignia cuts

Posted by | Mar 8, 2002 | |

Ministers have deliberately delayed the implementation of thousands of redundancies at the Post Office, fearing a backlash over the Government’s handling of the organisation’s restructuring.
It is also thought that the Government has been trying to reduce some of the impact of the massive restructuring after Allan Leighton, the acting chairman, outlined the need for far tougher cuts than the 30,000 job cuts that have already been tipped.

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