N Brown Group plc, the UK-based direct home shopping company, has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with GE Capital to develop Zendor.com, an e-commerce fulfilment service for home shopping businesses in the UK
Read MoreDHL has opened a new £1.2m service centre in Croyden to handle growing demand from export businesses in south London.
Read MoreTable detailing the EMS volumes by country for the USPS during 1999-2000
Read MoreConsignia is exploring the potential of new-style deliveries which mean people do not have to be at home to receive goods ordered from catalogues or via the internet. The organisation has linked up with five providers of drop box systems to test consumer demand and the ways in which they work. It is the latest initiative in Consignia’s drive to resolve last mile delivery issues and unlock one of the accepted barriers to even more rapid growth in the home shopping market.
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Federal Governments has declared its support for the implementation of the
Beijing postal strategy by African countries. Minister of State for Communications, Alhaji Haruna Elewa, who dropped the
unit at the opening of the annual “conference of Postal Administrators of West
African sub-region in Abuja Monday charged African countries to in the spirit
of the strategy ensure the provision of a universal postal service.
The Royal Mail should consider delivering pension money and child benefit to homes as part of a new approach to postal services, Postcomm, the industry regulator has suggested.
Graham Corbett, Postcomm’s chairman, said more emphasis should be put on availability of services and less on the number of post offices, claiming that sub-postmasters with only a handful of customers could not be expected to stay open indefinitely.
Read MorePostcomms first annualreport on the network of UK post offices – network dynamics, customers & services, case studies, threats and opportunities and the future.
Read MoreThe use of distribution centres for online shopping has cost some e-grocers dear, and opinion is divided as to whether they can actually be profitable
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