Tag: Deutsche Post

Germans aiming to join the great UK mail race

Posted by | Feb 13, 2004 | |

Postal wars are set to break out this year after German giant Deutsche Post said it is to launch plans to break up Royal Mail’s 300-year-old UK monopoly.

Dutch rival TPG, owner of the TNT courier group, is also certain to follow.

Deutsche Post has confirmed it is meeting Royal Mail within a fortnight over plans to enter the corporate mail market after Business Post, the UK courier group, unveiled such a deal earlier this week. “What information we have looks positive and encouraging,” said Deutsche Post UK director Tony Alsop.

He said that, assuming meetings with Royal Mail to gain access to its network are on the same favourable terms offered to Business Post, Deutsche Post could launch by the first quarter of 2005 or late this year. It aims to capture up to 5% of the GBP5 billion business market within three to five years.

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Deutsche Post denies UK mail talks news digest

Posted by | Feb 12, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post, the German postal operator that aims to break into the UK market, said it was “encouraged” by the agreement struck on Tuesday between Royal Mail and its private sector rival Business Post. Following years of on-off negotiations, Royal Mail has agreed to deliver business letters previously collected, transported and sorted by Business Post – through its subsidiary UK Mail – for 13p each. Tony Allsop, head of Deutsche Post’s UK operations, denied it was in talks over a similar deal.

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UK Mail deal opens door to delivery network

Posted by | Feb 11, 2004 | |

Royal Mail is in preliminary talks with the Dutch and German postal services, TPG and Deutsche Post, about allowing them access to its delivery network
after reaching a ground-breaking deal with a British rival yesterday. The deal is the first of its kind in Europe and was concluded after two years of talks. It in effect freezes regulator PostComm out of the process of enabling access to Royal Mail’s network of 73 mail centres and 1,450 delivery offices. It is understood that negotiations on a similar deal have already begun with TPG, which has a full licence, and with Deutsche Post, which is holding talks with PostComm on a winning a full licence to compete in Britain. Other groups waiting in the wings are Hays and Express Dairies.

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German Regulator, RegTP, presents Annual Report

Posted by | Feb 11, 2004 | |

The regulator‘s annual report reveals that the German postal services market generated revenues in 2003 of more than EUR23bn. Around two thirds of the postal services market – essentially, courier, express and parcel services, but parts of the letter market too – have already been opened to competition. Almost two thirds of the revenues are accounted for by Deutsche Post AG (DPAG). The remaining third is split between a number of providers, courier, express and parcel service providers in particular. Revenues in 2003 in the licensed area (delivery of letters up to 1000g in weight) were in the region of EUR10bn. A third of the letter market is open to competition; the competitive potential is thus about EUR3.3bn.

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