Tag: Europe

Agent Kartonix and his Special Packaging service

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

DPD Masterlink introduced a new added value service, Special Packaging. This service will not only help the customer to save valuable time and money, but also decrease the number of complaints concerning damaged parcels, which resulted from insufficient packaging.

In order to use the services of a courier company one must prepare a parcel for transport, which means providing adequate packaging. Beyond doubt, the most problematic objects are those, which due to their size do not fit into standard envelopes and carton boxes or are so fragile that only carefully packed can avoid damage during transport. These objects are for e.g. big format posters, electronic devices or porcelain.

Thanks to the service Special Packaging the customer can, not only, purchase 13 different formats of packages for a preferential price carton and polystyrene boxes, tubes, bubble foil, plastic envelopes, pallets, but also order the service Special Project Logistics, meaning which DPD Masterlink will conduct the whole process of distribution starting from the collection of components from the customer, through picking&packing according to individual requirements up to delivery and preparation of specialist reports.

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GBP2.2m mail sorting office opens

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

A brand new multi-million pound Royal Mail postal sorting office has opened in Suffolk.
The GBP2.2m centre on Skyliner Way in Bury St Edmunds brings together 140 postmen and women delivering more than 100,000 letters and parcels a day.

The old premises on St Andrew’s Street South, which had been home to the Royal Mail since the 1960s, will be redeveloped as part of a town project.

There will be no change to deliveries in the Bury St Edmunds area.

‘Great news’

Senior delivery manager Steve Glenn said: “This is actually purpose-built for our operation today.

“It’s great news for our people who deserve better and more modern facilities than we have had up to now in the new building.

“I can honestly say at this moment this is the best delivery office in the country.”

Staff moved from the old offices to the new ones over the weekend.

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Post Office® Ants set to raise funds for hospices across the country

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

Post Office Ltd is producing a range of special edition pin badges in a new initiative to raise funds for its major supported charity, Help the Hospices. Funds raised will be split between a number of local hospices across the country.

The rubber badges feature the Post Office®’s well-known family of ants, with each one waving a ‘Help the Hospices’ placard. They will be on sale in 500 Post Office® branches across the UK for two months from today (25 September) for a suggested minimum donation of GBP1.

Six different badges are being produced, each featuring different characters from the Post Office® ant family. One of the badges, featuring the twins, will be available only as a special edition for collectors. Some 3,000 of these special collectable badges will be available via mail order from Help the Hospices (tel 0207 520 8245 or email [email protected]).

Branch staff are also being encouraged to sell the badges through an internal competition, with a prize for the branch that sells the most.

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Spanish parcels carrier Azkar extends national network

Posted by | Sep 22, 2006 | |

Azkar, one of Spain’s leading parcels and freight transport operators, has extended its nationwide network with the opening of two new distribution centres.

The company has strengthened its presence in the Basque region with a new distribution centre at Zubieta, near to Lasarte (Guipúzcoa). Substantially larger than its previous site in the area, the new facility covers 10,550 sqm on a plot of land covering 30,034 sqm.

Azkar said it has invested euro2.6 million in building and fitting out the warehouse, which has 89 docking bays, 38 for heavy vehicles and another 51 for local collection and delivery vehicles. The new centre is also fitted out with modern sorting systems and has capacity to handle more than 7,500 packages per hour. There are 2,600 pallet positions for logistics activities.

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Deutsche Post to shift road cargo business into logistics division

Posted by | Sep 22, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post AG said it will shift its road cargo business, with about 4.0 bln eur in annual sales, to its Logistics division from the Express division.

The company said the move will make Deutsche Post more transparent for investors because the Express division’s business activities will be easier to compare with competitors.

The realignment means all air, sea and road cargo forwarding businesses will be grouped within the Logistics division.

In addition, the Express division will be led by one member of the management board instead of two.

John Mullen will head the division, while Peter Kruse will depart and become a special representative of chief executive Klaus Zumwinkel.

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