Tag: Europe

TNT repositions UK mailing brands

Posted by | May 4, 2006 | |

TNT Post has announced a shake-up of its UK mail brands. The Dutch firm, formerly TPG, is merging its Circular Distributors and TNT Mail companies under the name TNT Post. TNT bought 90% of Circular Distributors, the free sheet and sample delivery firm in 2001. According to TNT Post, the move means it is the only company, apart from Royal Mail, that has the resources to deliver both unaddressed and addressed items. The company’s UK chief executive, Nick Wells, said: “The re-brand is an exciting and positive step forward for both companies as well as being extremely logical.”

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Union attacks UK Royal Mail boss

Posted by | May 4, 2006 | |

Allan Leighton, chairman of Royal Mail, was called “an out-of-control public servant” by the main postal union yesterday, after he sent a letter to all staff promoting the merits of employee share ownership. Billy Hayes, the general secretary of the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU), said: “We’re now finding ourselves in a crazy situation where an out-of control public servant who was appointed by the Government to run a public company is pressurising that same Government to effectively privatise the public service. He has no authority to do this.”

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GLS accelerates European parcel shipment

Posted by | May 4, 2006 | |

General Logistics Systems (GLS) is reducing its regular delivery time for international parcels in Central Europe by one third. Parcel shipments that have to cross two borders now arrive at their destination one day earlier. Since April 1st, six countries are integrated into the “Euro 48” project. For Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, the Czech Republic and the major part of France GLS is reducing the regular delivery time of its interna-tional basic parcel product from 72 to 48 hours. This affects shipments that cross two national borders. For neighbouring countries, a delivery time rang-ing from 24 to 48 hours is the rule at GLS.

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La Poste reports substantial rise in profit for 2005

Posted by | May 4, 2006 | |

La Poste, the French national postal services group, has announced an increase of nearly 50 per cent in its net profit for 2005, to 557m euros, for a 3.5 per cent increase in turnover, to 19.3bn euros. This positive performance comes on the back of an improvement in the group’s operating margin, which increased from 1.7 per cent in 2003 to 3.9 per cent in 2005. The group is facing the challenge of the complete liberalisation of the postal services market in 2009. Some 65 per cent of its turnover is already generated on markets open to competition, and 15 per cent of it is generated abroad.

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UK post union steps up better pay campaign

Posted by | May 3, 2006 | |

Union leaders today stepped up their campaign to boost the pay of postal workers amid growing signs of unrest about the level of workload and stress in the service. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said it was fed up with the “nonsense” being put forward by the Royal Mail over employee share ownership, describing chairman Allan Leighton as an “out of control public servant.” The union announced it was balloting its members to confirm its priorities of increasing basic pay, cutting hours and safeguarding pensions rather than agreeing to any share ownership plan.

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