A touch of Kiwi hi-tech is tracking hundreds of thousands of brown paper parcels and express service jiffy bags as they are delivered to homes and businesses across Britain each day.
In a deal worth several million dollars, former Christchurch and now London-based iTouch Business Mobility has provided 2500 Parcelforce Worldwide drivers with hand-held computers that tell them where to go and what to do with their deliveries.
Read MoreTerritorians wanting to cut the amount of junk mail stuck in their letter boxes have been given a helping hand.
Planet Ark will launch its Do Not Mail service, a multi-pronged strategy aimed at the companies distributing the mail taking unwilling Territorians from their lists.
The free service will allow people wanting to stop junkmail to have their address removed from the mailing lists of 500 companies who are members of the Australian Direct Marketing Association.
They can also affix a sticker reading “No Unaddressed Advertising Material” to letterboxes (it is Australia Post company policy not to post unaddressed advertising to letterboxes with such stickers).
Read MoreUK Royal Mail warned yesterday that its fragile financial recovery would be “materially affected” by the recent unofficial strike action, because of lost business, brand damage and the risk of fines from the regulator.
The mail group made a small pre-tax profit of £3m for the first sixth months of the year, the first time it has been in the black in the first half for five years. Royal Mail made a loss of Pounds 542m in the same period last year. The move into profit was triggered by a 1p rise in the price of stamps in May, which generated £90m.
Read MoreAnnouncing their retirements from UPS at year’s end were Thomas H. Weidemeyer, chief operating officer and president of UPS Airlines, and Joseph R. Moderow, general counsel, corporate secretary and head of global public affairs and public relations. Weidemeyer and Moderow also serve on the UPS Board of Directors as well as the UPS Management Committee.
Named to succeed Weidemeyer as chief operating officer and president of UPS Airlines is John Beystehner, a 32-year company veteran who currently serves as senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. Replacing Moderow as general counsel and corporate secretary will be Allen Hill, a 27-year UPSer who is currently vice president heading the company’s legal department.
Succeeding Beystehner as senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing will be Kurt Kuehn, currently vice president in charge of investor relations.
Read MoreLittlefoot, the automated data collection specialist, has helped to develop a sophisticated proof of delivery system for Amtrak Express Parcels. The new solution is based on two-dimensional barcodes, and uses Dolphin 7300 mobile computers, supplied by HHP and equipped with specialist software developed by Littlefoot.
Amtrak`s new system forms part of a major investment programme in IT, designed to consolidate and extend the company`s success within the UK.
Read MoreRoyal Mail made a £3 million profit before tax in the first half of this financial year – the first time in five years it has been in the black at the half year.
The underlying performance showed a £55 million profit on the company’s day-to-day operations, compared to a £147 million loss in the same period a year ago, although the trading profit amounted to a return of just 1.3% on the external turnover in the half year of £4,120 million. Royal Mail’s return to profitability comes at exactly the mid-point of the three-year renewal plan. In the first half of last year it made a £542 million pre-tax loss but commenting on the latest figures, the Chairman, Allan Leighton, said
“This is welcome news but Royal Mail has not yet achieved a turnaround. We’ve got our heads above water again but there is still a long way to go before we achieve sustainable profitability.
“Crucially, Royal Mail has still not implemented key operational changes in most of the letters business.”
A 1p rise in basic First and Second Class postage in May has been the prime driver pushing the profit on operations in the letters business to £161 million in the first half of the year.
Read MorePost Office Ltd and the Bank of Ireland Group have announced the appointment of a Chief Executive Officer and Board Directors for the joint venture that will launch Post Office branded financial services products through the Post Office branch network, by telephone and the website.
The Chief Executive Officer will be Patrick Waldron, currently the Director of Retail Strategy and Change at the Bank of Ireland. He has filled a number of senior retail banking roles, including Director of Sales and Marketing and Head of Direct Banking, in which he had responsibility for the Group’s market-leading telephone and internet banking services in Ireland. Patrick will take up the position of CEO with immediate effect and will also join the board of the joint venture.
Read MoreGermany’s Federal Minister of Economics, Wolfgang Clement, presented Heinrich-von-Stephan medal to Chairman of Deutsche Post World Net’s Board of Management, Dr Klaus Zumwinkel.
Zumwinkel accepted the award in front of 1,500 invited guests in Berlin. He was given the medal “in honour of his great service to the development of postal services in Germany”. Thanks to Zumwinkel’s work as Chairman of the Board of Management over the last thirteen years, Deutsche Post has been transformed from a deficit-ridden national authority into one of the world’s most successful logistics groups.
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