Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Swiss post office: evening parcel deliveries tested

Posted by | Sep 18, 2007 | |

The Swiss post office has launched household deliveries of parcels in the evening on a trial basis in Geneva. The postal service has been delivering packages between 5 and 8 p.m. “The post office is adapting to the change in (people’s) habits,” spokeswoman Nathalie Salamin told Television Suisse Romande.

More and more people are away at work or engaged in other activities when deliveries are made to homes in the morning. This result in parcels having to be transported back to depots and customers are forced to pick them up at a later date. This coming-and-going ends up causing the post office more work. By delivering in the evening, the expectation is that more people will be at home to receive parcels.

There may be environmental benefits too, with vehicles driving less. The Geneva trial project will run for four weeks and the results will analyzed before any final decision is made. It may be that 5 p.m. is still too early for many people who work until 6 p.m. or later. Salamin admitted that the delivery schedule may need to be fine-tuned.

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TechRestore Partners with FedEx for Laptop & iPod Repair Dropoffs

Posted by | Sep 18, 2007 | |

TechRestore announced Tuesday a partnership with FedEx that makes the company’s chain of FedEx Kinko’s stores a dropoff location for repairs of Apple laptops, iPods, and iPhones, as well as Sony PSPs and for data recovery. Customers wishing to schedule repairs with TechRestore online or via telephone can choose a dropoff option, and doing so alerts both TechRestore and FedEx with all the relevant information.

TechRestore’s basic business model has been one day turnaround in repairs, with the company sending customers a packing kit, which is then picked up by FedEx, which overnights your broken laptop or iPod to TechRestore. The company would then fix it and overnight it back to you. The new dropoff option allows customers to take the first day out of that process, and takes care of the shipping label on the FedEx side of the process.

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Oesterreichische Post to shed 1,200 jobs through 2009, union vows fight

Posted by | Sep 18, 2007 | |

Oesterreichische Post AG (Austrian Post) said that it plans to shed around 1,200 jobs until the end of 2009, with some 1,000 positions being eliminated in its mail and package delivery segment.

The Austrian postal services group said that the reduction in the number of letter carriers will take place within the previously announced framework of striking around 400 such positions a year through natural attrition, the Austrian news agency APA reported.

The Post’s employees union said that it will fight these plans and will no longer continue its wage talks with the company’s management, according to APA.

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TNT restructures express services

Posted by | Sep 17, 2007 | |

TNT claimed its emphasis on morning deliveries, which it is backing with an international communications campaign under the “Good Morning!” theme, was unique in the market.

The key to TNT’s restructuring is close integration between its road and air networks. Nigel Barton, strategic operations director, said TNT was the only integrator with fully merged road and air operations in Europe, operating 3,700 linehauls a week.

The company has an intraregional focus rather than the intercontinental focus of its main express rivals.

Marie-Christine Lombard, group MD for TNT Express, said the company would operate only on selected long haul routes, but was seeking to replicate its European regional road/air model in markets such as Brazil, India and China, where it has acquired large domestic players in the last two years.

TNT has calculated its share of Europe’s GBP 21bn (USD 26.8 bn) express market at 17 pct , ahead of DHL on 16 pct. Lombard said it was a great opportunity that “others” outside the main integrators and post offices still accounted for 48 pct of the market, since so many smaller players were “destination specialists” offering just one or two countries.

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DHL Malaysia to roll out more Servicepoint outlets

Posted by | Sep 17, 2007 | |

DHL plans to roll out more Servicepoint outlets in key cities in the country over the next three years.

It has invested RM 1.5 million for the first three Servicepoints stores in the Klang Valley.

The Servicepoints represent a major step in DHL’s ambitious retail expansion plans to assist the small and medium-sized enterprises with plans to expand regionally and globally and retail customers who prefer to walk into stores to drop off their shipments, rather than use the home pick-up option.

The company opened its first northern Servicepoint at Jalan Cantonment, Pulau Tikus, on Penang Island last month.

The RM 6 million outlets in Cantonment Road, adds to the six Servicepoint outlets already operating in Menara TM, Menara Axis, Bangsar Baru, SS2 Petaling Jaya, to the RM21 million DHL Klang Valley Service Centre in Glenmarie, as well as to the recently opened kiosk in Central Market, which specifically caters to tourists.

Its core product offerings include Express4U, an easy-to-use and convenient service for sending documents and parcels with flat-rate prices, worldwide and University Express, the fastest, most reliable and secure way to send student applications and excess baggage abroad.

1 USD = 3.48887 MYR

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