Year: 2005

Red Parcel Post to be launched in 2007

Posted by | Sep 9, 2005 | |

Red Parcel Post, the new German parcel forwarder, is due to be launched on the market at the beginning of 2007. The Boes family, which sold its previous company to Denmark’s DFDS group in last year, is a shareholder in the new company. Manfred Boes, who is also president of the German logistics sector association DSLV, warns that, thanks to new sorting and mailing technology, Red Parcel Post will be in a position to offer more favourable prices than rival DHL, a subsidiary of the postal service provider Deutsche Post.

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Postal changes will hit rural communities, warns UK Royal Mail boss

Posted by | Sep 9, 2005 | |

Rural communities across Scotland will suffer if proposed changes to postal services go ahead, the chief executive of the Royal Mail warned yesterday. Adam Crozier also said job cuts at the Royal Mail are inevitable as the organisation strives for greater efficiency. But he insisted there are no plans to close any more post offices north of the border. Mr Crozier was speaking as the Royal Mail unveiled findings of a study highlighting its impact on Scotland’s economy. His comments will re-ignite concerns that proposed changes to UK mail delivery services will lead to an inferior service for the Highlands and Islands.

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UK DX reports fall in profit

Posted by | Sep 9, 2005 | |

DX Services PLC reported a fall in profit in its full-year results but said it is well-placed to grow when the mail market is fully deregulated next year. The company, which was sold by former parent company Hays PLC in 2004, said
pretax profit before exceptional items and goodwill amortisation in the year to
June 30 fell to 26.6 mln stg from 32.7 mln a year earlier. DX Services chairman John Maxwell said in a statement: “This has been a year of substantial change for DX. With the onset of full deregulation in January 2006, and the introduction of our ‘take all’ mail services to increase market penetration, DX is well positioned for further growth.”

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German Deutsche Post, SAP and Swiss PayNet to set EBPP network

Posted by | Sep 9, 2005 | |

German postal services company Deutsche Post AG, German enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider SAP AG and Swiss electronic billing services company PayNet (Schweiz) AG plan to jointly develop an international electronic payment network based on SAP’s Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) technology, it was reported on September 7, 2005. Deutsche Post, SAP and PayNet goal is to create an exchange of electronic invoices across borders on the basis of a common technology. The cooperation will provide the companies’ customers from different countries with the possibility to make transactions of national and international invoices via a single interface. PayNet will link the companies within Switzerland and Deutsche Post will integrate companies from Germany and from other countries into the network.

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German Hermes to enter mail delivery market 2008

Posted by | Sep 8, 2005 | |

German logistics services provider Hermes Logistik Gruppe, a subsidiary of the local mail order company Otto GmbH, plans to enter the German mail delivery market due to be liberalised in 2008, the company’s CEO, Hanjo Schneider, said.
Hermes will charge between 10 pct and 15 pct below the tariffs of current monopoly Deutsche Post, Schneider added. As from January 1, 2008, the Hamburg-based company will offer, through mail delivery firm Europost which it co-owns, a nationwide mail delivery network with own mailboxes at its 11,000 outlets. Currently, Hermes (www.hermes-logistik-gruppe.de) competes with Deutsche Post on the market for package deliveries for private clients. The company plans to triple its share on the private clients market to 15 pct by the end of 2005, Schneider said.

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Printers voice concern over UK mail pricing changes

Posted by | Sep 8, 2005 | |

It has been a long wait, but all systems are now go for Royal Mail’s plans for size-based pricing. Postcomm has given it the all clear and Pricing in Proportion (PiP), as it’s now called, will be phased in by August 2006. The announcement two weeks ago has been heralded as “the greatest change in postal pricing since the introduction of the Penny Black”. In the B2B publishing sector, it has also been the most controversial. PiP is likely to result in postal price increases for A3-sized magazines. They now come under the large letter format and that means a higher price bracket. “It will be the lighter-weight A3 titles that will suffer,” explains PPA director of circulation Nicola Rowe. And this could mean a rethink by B2B publishers over future magazine sizes. The magazine sector, which relies heavily on posting out issues, will be hit the hardest. “It hits us purely from a distribution point of view,” says William Reed production director Chris Reed. “It’s a matter of trying to find a solution to get around it.”

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TNT accelerates its China business

Posted by | Sep 8, 2005 | |

TNT logistics supply chain solutions and mail services, is to adopt a cooperation form to expand its service network in Mainland instead of a franchise form it announced at the end of 2004, a source said on September 4.
Indeed, its previous franchise development plan has been replaced by the alliance-based cooperation development plan, according to the TNT headquarters.
The company changed the earlier plan because there has not yet been a franchise act in the mainland, an executive at the cooperation development division of TNT told reporters. For the moment, scores of Chinese agents are responsible for TNT’s China express business and its 25 branch companies for its international express business. In the cooperation form, its Chinese partners operate under the TNT brand and their sales rely on TNT, while its Chinese agents do not operate under brand in the franchise form and just take some fees.

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