Postcomm began a 30 day consultation on the proposed issue of a long term licence to Red Star Parcels Ltd, to provide consolidation services (collection and sorting of mail). Red Star Parcels Ltd is owned by Lynx Express Limited and would trade as Lynx Mail.
Read MoreFedEx Freight said it is improving its ocean less-than-container load service by combining its mainland administrative and delivery systems with those of its Puerto Rican operating company, Caribbean Transportation Services. The LTL carrier says the consolidation of systems with CTS will simplify the process for shippers and improve overall efficiency. “By providing speed, precision, end-to-end visibility and a single invoice, it simplifies things for the customer. We believe it’s a value proposition,” said Dennie Carey, senior vice president of marketing.
Read MoreIf the US Postal Service has its way, “the check is in the mail” excuse will no longer be valid. The company that sent you the bill could verify whether you’re bluffing through a bar code on the return envelope scanned by the Postal Service. That tracking system, which starts this month, is one way the Postal Service is making first-class mail such as bills and personal correspondence more valuable, in a world full of e-mail and electronic documents. The Postal Service says a financial institution will test the system in July by using the new bar code. The customer will track mail as it winds through the Postal Service’s 283 processing and distribution centers across the country. Currently, mail is mostly scanned at the beginning and delivery points. By year’s end, all letter mail could be tracked at Postal Service facilities. The Postal Service will add commercial customers throughout 2006.
Read MoreGuernsey Post and its watchdog will consult again on proposed changes to its operating licence. The Office of Utility Regulation now suggests scrapping and replacing condition 18, which contains the clauses that specify the conditions for price regulation. ‘The OUR’s aim with this proposed modification is to clarify further the services intended to be regulated under condition 18 of Guernsey Post’s licence,’ said director-general John Curran. The OUR’s initial attempt to regulate prices of postal services through its licence – as distinct to regulation law and postal law – was appealed by the company in October 2004. This is ongoing. Behind the appeal was Guernsey Post’s concern that it would lead to regulation of prices in competitive markets, where it believes it is entitled to a level playing field. However, the OUR argues that the October modification was ‘a tidying-up exercise’ and that there would be no increase in the watchdog’s powers.
Read MoreIreland takes to new pallet network services, as self-proclaimed market leader looks for larger premises after 12 months. IT investment to follow next year.
Read MoreFar from reaching their peak, pallet networks still have much traffic to go after. The sector needs to talk up inherent efficiencies more strongly, TPN chairman argues. Pallet networks “have a very large market still to attack”, says Richard Eldred, chairman and co-founder of The Pallet Network. A study this year had shown that the market share of all networks was 4.8% and revenues total GBP528m in 2004; but forecast an increase to 13.5% market share and revenues of GBP1.65bn in 2008. He told the UK Express Delivery conference organised by Triangle in Birmingham last week that reports of complaints from some large distribution contractors that customers are becoming too demanding on timed deliveries is “great news for networks”. Network members have a great story to tell about how the networks have taken the cost out of pallet distribution and been able to pass on much of that to customers; they should be even more pro-active in telling that story, he said.
Read MoreMRW recently started operations at a new distributin centre in Villena (Alicante province). In addition the company has doubled capacities at its logistics platforms in Alicante, Lleida, Iviedo and Pamplona. MRW currently operates a network of 717 franchise bases as well as 35 distribution and logistics centres with an overall area of 89,400 sqm in spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibralter.
Read MoreSwiss Post made a greater profit last year than its accounts show, according to a report by PostReg, the new postal-market regulatory authority. The report, published on Wednesday, found there had been serious breaches of the service’s legal regulations. Swiss Post has denied the accusations. In 2004 Swiss Post recorded a profit for its basic or universal service of SFr522 million (USD400 million), but PostReg said the figure should have been at least SFr776 million.
It accused Swiss Post of disregarding legal guidelines in its book-keeping methods.
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