Tag: Business Post

Pushing the envelope

Posted by | Apr 9, 2002 | |

ANY MARKETER WORTH HIS or her salt knows that direct marketing (DM) is one of the most cost effective ways to spend their budget. With the deregulation of the postal market, the case for DM, and in particular direct mail, is set to get even more persuasive.
The move, announced by the Postal Services Commission (Postcomm) in January this year, aims to reduce Consignia’s monopoly in the UK postal market. Final details of the changes are due to be made public this month, although Consignia is currently lobbying hard for the proposed changes to be postponed.

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Business Post headhunts Queen

Posted by | Mar 18, 2002 | |

Buckingham Palace is in talks with mail firm Business Post over a request to put the Queen’s head on the first private stamps.
The Birmingham-based company is poised to challenge Royal Mail’s postal monopoly, collecting and sorting business post, and is looking to add value to its stamps.

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Consignia faces flak over fees

Posted by | Mar 17, 2002 | |

BUSINESS Post, the postal services group, is preparing to report Consignia to the regulator, PostComm, over how much the renamed Post Office can charge its rivals for delivering their mail. The row over charging will be the first to break into the open since PostComm announced plans in January to open up the market for bulk letter mail. Business Post plans to collect mail from business customers, sort it and transport it to the most appropriate depot for final delivery by Royal Mail staff.

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Why Ill always love the Post Office, by the man who could help kill if off

Posted by | Mar 17, 2002 | |

Paul Carvell, Business Post comments on Consignia: ‘I have the utmost respect for the Royal Mail. It is perhaps the best postal service in the world.’ but Consignia has ‘too many bosses and they are too slow to respond. The whole thing is too bureaucratic’. Carvell firmly backs The Mail on Sunday’s campaign to keep early-morning deliveries.

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