Year: 2003

UK Mail signs Heads of Terms with the Royal Mail

Posted by | Dec 17, 2003 | |

Business Post, the fast-growing express delivery company, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, UK Mail Ltd, has signed Heads of Terms with the Royal Mail for access to Royal Mail’s local sorting and final delivery network.

The terms envisaged, which are confidential, are in a similar format to those of the proposed determination of 19 May 2003 by Postcomm, the independent postal industry regulator. Detailed terms remain subject to contract, which it is intended will be signed in January 2004.

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Postcomm welcomes likely access agreement

Posted by | Dec 17, 2003 | |

Postcomm Chairman Graham Corbett today (17 December) welcomed the announcement that Royal Mail and UK Mail are likely to reach a voluntary agreement over the prices and conditions under which Royal Mail will carry its rival’s letters over “the final mile”. Mr Corbett said:

”This is excellent news that should benefit both businesses and consumers. It opens the way to competitive innovation in service delivery. And it should enable Royal Mail to earn money by delivering UK Mail’s post, while UK Mail will benefit from Royal Mail’s extensive network which reaches every household in the UK”.

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Delivery services used by online shippers in US

Posted by | Dec 16, 2003 | |

The latest data from Forrester research, conducted in a poll of 12,000 online buyers earlier this year, showed UPS still has a commanding lead with online buyers, with 57 percent of online buyers overall followed by USPS with 23 percent of online shoppers and FedEx a distant third with only 7 percent.

Breaking it down further, 57 percent of men and 53 percent of women report primarily using UPS. BizRate.com’s research shows that men are less concerned with the lowest price and more concerned with the on-time delivery of packages. Some of the difference in delivery service used is also due to differences in the types of goods purchased online by the two genders, said Forrester researcher Chris Kelley. Kelley said different online sites use different delivery options.

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Swiss Post to cut working hours

Posted by | Dec 16, 2003 | |

Swiss Post will cut working hours from January 2004 to avoid lay offs. The move will have the effect of shedding around 500 positions among its post office staff and around 300 positions at its postal distribution staff. The measure is triggered by a larger-than-expected decline in the post’s.

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Deutsche Post loses legal dispute regarding brand name

Posted by | Dec 16, 2003 | |

Deutsche Post AG, the German postal service, has lost a legal dispute concerning the brand name used by another logistics company in Germany. The company had objected to the plans of EP Europost, a subsidiary of Dutch postal company TPG Post, which wished to change its name to ‘TPG Post Deutschland’. The German office for patents and brand names in Munich has dismissed Deutsche Post’s objections. Deutsche Post now plans to appeal against the decision.

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2003 stamp price survey confirms worries on excessive tariffs in Europe

Posted by | Dec 15, 2003 | |

The Free and Fair Post Initiative (FFPI) today released its third EU stamp price survey. The study, which this year also covers the ten new EU Member States, confirms the trend towards price increases and highlights the remarkable gaps that exist among current Member States and between them and the accession countries. The FFPI’s research shows that the wide price differences registered in 2002 have not been reduced and that tariffs have in most States registered further raises. In 11 out of 15 current EU Member States stamp prices have been increased in the past year. In addition, requests for price
reviews have been filed by postal operators in some countries where decisions are still pending and will likely be taken in 2004.
Includes stamp prices in the EU-25 for basic domestic letters & EU Stamp Price Chart – Prices in Euro Cents

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Hellmann reviews UK franchise

Posted by | Dec 15, 2003 | |

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics is reviewing the future of its loss-making UK franchised domestic parcels subsidiary, Hellmann Overnight Logistics.
HOL has suffered in recent years from the effects of savage competition and divided loyalties on the part of some of its local delivery depots, which had been feeding other parcel networks, the company said.

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UK Royal Mail tests new software for main bulk mail centres

Posted by | Dec 15, 2003 | |

The UK’s Royal Mail postal service has chosen Isotrak’s transport management software to help streamline its distribution management.

Isotrak has analysed Royal Mail’s requirements and is now piloting the system at a major distribution centre.

The system will then be installed in Royal Mail’s main bulk mail distribution centres, involving around 2,000 vehicles and trailers.

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