Year: 2001

Retailers set to overhaul delivery options to maintain home shopping growth

Posted by | Oct 25, 2001 | |

Retailers in the UK are planning a major overhaul of their delivery strategies to ensure the home shopping boom continues, according to a survey released today by Consignia. The survey of 100 companies, which includes some of the UK’s largest home shopping retailers, revealed that 70% regard reliable delivery as the most important influence on the future growth of the market and delivery at a time and place convenient to the consumer was ranked as the second most important factor by 58% of respondents. Unsurprisingly, one of the most popular options for driving future growth in home shopping was time-window deliveries. This was seen as the most likely ‘last mile’ delivery service to fuel future growth by 67 per cent of those surveyed. For retailers operating on-line, the figure was 71 per cent.

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Consultation on modification to postal licence exceptions

Posted by | Oct 25, 2001 | |

On 25 October, Postcomm announced that it was considering postal licence exceptions that would simplify regulation in the distribution of share dealing information and give more flexibility in the distribution of election material. A consultation document examines the possibility of excepting letter post from licensing requirements for three specific services:
1. mail arising as part of the settlement system operated by CRESTCo for the UK, Irish and international securities
2. conveyance of poll cards for elections
3. conveyance of other material for Parliamentary and Assembly elections

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Royal Mail are sticking £1m in stamps

Posted by | Oct 25, 2001 | |

MAIL chiefs are jumping on the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? bandwagon with a megabucks Christmas promotion.

And it’s guaranteed to make the festive season first class for 36 customers.

The Royal Mail has hidden game cards in books of 12 and 24 first class stamps.

One will reveal the illustration of a diamond stamp worth pounds 1million.

Another 10 will contain ruby stamps worth pounds 25,000 each and 25 sapphire stamps worth pounds 10,000 each.

And bosses stress the odds of winning are better than the National Lottery.

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Sabena's fate is uncertain

Posted by | Oct 24, 2001 | |

More uncertainty on Wednesday surrounded the fate of Sabena, Belgium’s troubled flagship airline, as the government tried to play down news reports that a move to file for bankruptcy could soon be made.

Since Sabena is under Chapter 11 style protection from its creditors, such an initiative could come from one of several parties.

The government, which owns 50.5 per cent in the lossmaking airline, indicated it was not considering a bankruptcy filing in the next few days.

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China Post Introduces PC-Letter

Posted by | Oct 24, 2001 | |

October 24, 2001 — Tang Min, China Daily (Beijing): “A revolutionary new
system that can send letters via computer from any location in the world to
China in just several minutes and for no more than 3.5 yuan (US$0.40) is to
be launched in 18 Chinese cities. The new Desk Post Office service –
PC-Letter – will be available in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing and
Liaoning next month, and will be spread to other Chinese regions in the near
future, the China Post Administration announced yesterday.

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