Tag: Domestic

Postcomm agrees to Royal Mail stopping Sunday collections

Posted by | Aug 29, 2007 | |

Postcomm has published its agreement to Royal Mail’s request to stop collecting post from post boxes and businesses on Sundays and Bank Holidays. The document is available here.

The agreement is subject to several customer safeguards which Postwatch suggested, and which have been agreed by Royal Mail:

– Royal Mail will communicate the changes to customers, through placing notices on postboxes and at Crown post offices where Sunday/bank holidays collections take place, as well as contacting the 50 businesses that currently receive a tailored Sunday collection service.

– Collection plate information will be amended.

– Post boxes in areas of high usage will be monitored and emptied if there is a risk of overflowing.

Postwatch accepts that some customers will be inconvenienced by the change. However, given the low volumes of Sunday collections and the relatively high cost of the service, on balance, we believe this move is justified, insofar as it will help reduce Royal Mail’s costs and ensure the universal service continues to be delivered at an affordable price.

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DHL chosen by leading regional department store chain

Posted by | Aug 28, 2007 | |

DHL announced it has been selected as the exclusive small package delivery provider for the Bon-Ton Stores, Inc., one of the largest regional department store chains in the United States. DHL will provide US domestic Express and home delivery services, supporting The Bon-Ton store’s entire network.

The Bon-Ton operates 278 stores in 23 states in the Northeast, Midwest and upper Great Plains under the Bon-Ton, Bergner’s, Boston Store, Carson Pirie Scott, Elder-Beerman, Herberger’s, Younkers and, under the Parisian nameplate two stores in the Detroit, Mich. area. In addition to a bridal registry and new on-line store, The Bon Ton offers a broad assortment of brand-name fashion apparel and accessories for women, men and children, as well as cosmetics and home furnishings.

DHL worked with Bon-Ton to offer store customers the added convenience of delivery of in-store items purchased at any Bon-Ton store. DHL will deliver these items upon request by customers to a business or residence through its Express delivery or DHL@home business-to-residential delivery service.

From Bon-Ton fulfillment centers, DHL will deliver all products ordered through the online store, as well as items ordered from the Bon-Ton Bridal Registry.

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UPS Celebrates it's 100-Year Anniversary

Posted by | Aug 28, 2007 | |

UPS Inc. celebrates it’s 100-year anniversary later this month, it now is the world’s largest shipping carrier – a USD 47 billion business with a fleet of trucks, an airline and operations in 200 countries.

Increasing competition for delivery of goods has meant the company has had to broaden its global reach and expand its business beyond small package delivery to shipping heavy freight and providing logistics services for companies.

But even as the Internet has made it easier to send, receive or download items electronically instead of paying a service to deliver them, the breaking down of trade barriers has given shippers like UPS overseas opportunities they haven’t had in the past.
the global economy.

These days, the U.S. small package delivery market has slowed along with the economy. As a result, UPS has been increasingly looking beyond U.S. borders for business, offering faster delivery to worldwide destinations. International growth has helped the company’s bottom line.

Last month, UPS reported a 4.1 percent rise in second-quarter earnings on a modest increase in sales. The company’s shares, on an adjusted basis, are up more than 14 percent over the last year.

A century from now, Chief Executive Mike Eskew expects that delivering small packages will still be an important part of the Atlanta-based company’s business, but he isn’t sure it will be the largest part. In 2001, the company expanded its services by acquiring the Mail Boxes Etc. chain. Most of the stores were later renamed The UPS Store.

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Deutsche Post rated second class

Posted by | Aug 28, 2007 | |

German mail operator Deutsche Post is not going to have a very happy new year in 2008 when the German postal sector is liberalized, say the analysts that downgraded the stock on Tuesday.

Although there have been efforts to delay the liberalization of Europe’s 88 billion euro (USD119.9 billion) mail market, which was pushed back to 2011 from 2009 in July, Germany is still on target to open up its national postal sector to competition at the start of next year.

“A delay to German mail liberalization (scheduled for 2008) now seems unlikely,” said Matthew Lloyd, analyst with Goldman Sachs. He told clients that Deutsche Post faced volume loss and margin erosion from increased competition, and downgraded the stock to “Sell” from “Buy.”

Shares in Deutsche Post fell 67 eurocents (91 cents), or 3.1 pct, to 20.82 euros (USD28.37) in Frankfurt. The stock finished bottom of the DAX index, which slid 28.52 points, or 0.4 pct , to 7,457.47.

Although Deutsche Post currently has over 90 pct market share in Germany, the threat to its business from outside competition has seen the company forecast a drop in earnings between 10 pct -20 pct in 2009.

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Hermes Logistik Gruppe to enter German letter market in 2008

Posted by | Aug 28, 2007 | |

Hermes Logistik Gruppe, a Hamburg-based logistics groups, plans to enter the German letter market in 2008, its Managing Director Hanjo Schneider told Hamburger Abendblatt.

He said that from January customers could use the company’s 13,500 parcel stations to post letters.

Schneider added that prices will be 15-20 pct below current postal tariffs of incumbent Deutsche Post World Net AG.

The letters, which will take two days to deliver, will be distributed by TNT NV’s TNT Post, in which Hermes owns a 29 pct stake.

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