Tag: Europe

La Poste France launches first ‘new look’ post office

Posted by | Nov 2, 2005 | |

La Poste is launching the first of its revamped post offices today in Trelaze in the Maine-et-Loire. In total, the group plans to modernize 3,500 post offices nationwide by the end of 2008, for an investment of 770m euros. The new post offices are designed to be more attractive, particularly to younger people, and better located. They will be based on automated machines that can provide an estimated 60 per cent of services required.

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The Mail Show 2005: Top executives debate key UK regulatory issues

Posted by | Nov 2, 2005 | |

The first day of this year’s Mail Show brought all the leading mail executives together to debate the future of the domestic mail market. An audience of over 400 senior industry figures heard Postcomm Chairman Nigel Stapleton call for Royal Mail to concentrate on “efficiency gains” rather than hoping for a government handout to alleviate its GBP4bn pensions deficit. Speaking to the Financial Times, he described RM as “a pension fund with a mail business attached rather than the other way round”. Royal Mail’s Adam Crozier responded that it would descend into a “spiral of decline” if forced to cut costs to the level required by Postcomm. Competitiveness Minister Barry Gardiner said that he would wait until price controls were finalised before intervening and that, if the price settlement is correct, RM should be able to meet its obligations. In another session, Triangle presented the results of Monday’s Customer Forum of the UK’s top mail users. Among their conclusions was that there had been little change in the product alternatives available from the operators in 2005, and that Royal Mail is fighting back using weapons such as Pricing in Proportion to muddy the waters.

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Postmasters’ buyout plan could split UK Royal Mail

Posted by | Nov 2, 2005 | |

A Postmasters’ group is attempting to mount a management buyout of the main postal network in a move that would split the Royal Mail group, The Times has learnt. The Postmasternetwork, which claims 7,500 members, this week will meet potential American investors to try to secure up to GBP150 million of funding to buy the 14,500-strong chain of loss- making sub-post offices. The group has held meetings with the Department of Trade and Industry already to press the idea. The organisation has emphasised its interest in running the network, although it would need government support for about two years, as the future of the UK’s postal service is being reviewed.

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One in three UK mailshots littered with blunders says research

Posted by | Nov 2, 2005 | |

Around a third of unsolicited direct mail delivered in the UK has mistakes in prospects’ name and addresses, according to new research. The research by data firm EuroDirect monitored unsolicited mailshots from around 330 UK businesses over several months. It found that out of 1,004 mailings received, 283 were to either deceased or gone-away residents or had spelling blunders in names and addresses. EuroDirect warns that this could cause distress and aggravation to those who receive the mail, as well as a waste of money for printing and postage to clients.

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