Tag: Business Post

UK Mail MD talks of transforming the market place

Posted by | Mar 8, 2004 | |

At the recent IEA postal conference, Guy Buswell of Business Post reported that UK Mail was positioning its business class service between first and second class. They will sort to the 120 mail centres or the 1400 delivery centres, collect between 1600 and 1930 and deliver to the centres between 0830 and 12 noon next day. There will be some interesting new joint marketing initiatives with Royal Mail and there will be penalty clauses in the contract relationship with Royal Mail. On the parcels side he reported a 50% increase in home delivery and that Business Post carries out 50% of FedEx’ collection and deliveries in the UK.

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UK mail deal sets precedent for market liberalisation

Posted by | Feb 11, 2004 | |

A significant hurdle to the liberalisation of the postal market was cleared yesterday after Royal Mail agreed for the first time to deliver letters collected and sorted by a private company. The terms of the agreement are likely to set a precedent for deals between the state-owned mail group and companies such as Deutsche Post of Germany and TPG of the Netherlands, who have tried to break into the UK market for several years.
From April, Royal Mail will deliver post that is collected and sorted by Business Post, its private sector rival. Rather than emptying post boxes on the street, Business Post, through its subsidiary UK Mail, will collect mail from businesses such as phone companies and utilities that send letters in bulk.

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Postcomm welcome Royal Mail/UK Mail agreement

Posted by | Feb 10, 2004 | |

Postcomm have welcomed the agreement that will enable Royal Mail postmen to carry post on behalf of rival operator, UK Mail, for “the last mile.”

The agreement marks an important step forward for competition in postal services. Under the arrangements, UK Mail will hand over pre-sorted mail to Royal Mail at inward mail centres, from where they will be processed for eventual delivery by Royal Mail postmen. Royal Mail will charge UK Mail a fee for each letter, ranging from 13p for mail weighing less than 60 grams to GBP 3.75 for items weighing 2Kg.

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Business Post could double in size over 3 years following UK Royal Mail deal

Posted by | Feb 10, 2004 | |

Paul Carvell, chief executive of Business Post PLC, said today’s ground-breaking access agreement with Royal Mail PLC could double the size of Business Post over the next three years. Under the terms of the deal, business letters sent via Business Post’s UK Mail division will be delivered by Royal Mail, who will be charging around 13 pence per letter for the service. Analysts have assumed that 2006 will see an achievement of 1.5 pct market share, rising to 3 pct by 2007. Carvell said the group is targeting a 3 pct market share in the medium term.

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UK Business Post and Royal Mail sign first access agreement

Posted by | Feb 10, 2004 | |

Business Post and Royal Mail have signed the first agreement of its kind in Europe to enable access to Royal Mail’s local sorting and final delivery network.

From April 2004, the Business Class service run by Business Post’s subsidiary,
UK Mail, will offer large mailers (initially, businesses mailing over 4,000 and,
typically, over 10,000, pre-sorted letters a day) two day mail delivery with
track-and-trace up to the point of handover to Royal Mail, and flexibility of
collection.

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