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Brand devalues: New names can mean new problems

Posted by | Feb 18, 2002 | |

It would be stretching business theory a bit far to suggest that the recent deterioration in the postal service was the result of the change of name from Post Office to Consignia. But it clearly did not help. Even if there was no causal relationship between these events they were part of the same deterioration. You do not need a Harvard business degree to know it was totally batty to take well respected brands with international recognition, like Royal Mail and Post Office, and let corporate spin doctors turn them into names with no meaning and with nothing to do with the activities of the company.

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Total Express closes its doors and blames Correios

Posted by | Feb 18, 2002 | |

Total Express, the logistics and delivery company owned by the investment funds GP and J.P. Morgan has gone out of business. Although the company had acquired some weighty clients, it says that it was not able to compete with ‘predatory’ competition from the Correios, the Brazilian postal system, in particular its e-Sedex division, which drew away clients with rates described by Total Express as below cost. The company’s 300 employees will be laid off and 60 contracts cancelled.

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40p to post a letter, Consignia's warning if rival firms move in

Posted by | Feb 18, 2002 | |

FIRST-CLASS stamps could leap in price to 40p and second class to 30p if mail delivery is opened up to greater competition, says Consignia.

The company, formerly the Post Office, claims that would be the result if rivals are allowed to operate in the profitable business mail market.

“At the moment letters sent from one side of London to the other subsidise Auntie Joan’s letter to the Shetlands, ” said a Consignia spokeswoman.

“But if we lose all the cheaper mail, the ability to subsidise will obviously be hit.

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DHLs new hub

Posted by | Feb 18, 2002 | |

Responsible for 100 million shipments a year and with an annual turnover in excess of five billion euros, DHL is a major player in the international express delivery market. The company has recently completed a £35 million investrnent in a new Air Express Hub at East Midlands Airport. One of 35 such hubs around the world, and the biggest in the UK, the new facility is designed for throughputs of up to 24,000 parcels and 18,000 docunients (‘flyers’) every hour.

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A secure agenda for parcels

Posted by | Feb 18, 2002 | |

Valuable items once tended to be carried in small numbers but through the advent of microtechnology. small, high value items are far more common. Mobile phones are a classic example and a lorry load presents a prized target for a heist. However, there would appear to be little reliable information worldwide concerning stolen cargo. The last worldwide survey conducted by the Fecher al Bureau of
Investigation in (FBI) and die National ( argo Security Council in I 99M estimated the value upwards of $50bn. However, as Ken Matthews, director of security at TNT express points out: “Both businesses arid express operato rs have recognised a signifi(alit increase since 1998 and between 1999 and 2000 recorded incidents in Europe rose to 55% .”

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FedEx remains committed to Malaysian Market

Posted by | Feb 18, 2002 | |

Leading airfreight forwading company Federal Express, has pledged to remain committed to the Malaysian market and build even a stronger presence in the country.
Managing director of Federal Express Services (M) Sdn Bhd (Malaysia and Brunei) Ramesh Kumar Singam said it expects to achieve this by providing the best of products while enhancing its security features for the interest of its customers.

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USPS shippers annoyed by added delivery charges in Europe

Posted by | Feb 18, 2002 | |

The Postal Services arrangement with Consignia, in which the British post’s subsidiary delivers all USPS air packages throughout Europe. is off to a rocky start.
Businesses using USPS international services to send packages to Europe are complaining that their customers are getting hit with major duties and fees upon delivery of the packages. Many customers are refusing the packages. meaning they never reach their final destination, in addition. customers in Sweden were complaming in late January that they were still w aiting on Christmas packages. Sweden Post officials were worried the packages were hung up somewhere. Perhaps in Germany — the single entry point to Europe under the arrangement with Consignia.

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