Developing services for recipients of mail
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Royal Mail Foresight 2005
Royal Mail Foresight 2005
Read MoreBudapest courier service market saturated
With about 100 courier services operating in Budapest and new ones constantly entering the market, fees are going down sharply in a business operating with a profit margin of less than 10pc as it is, a Budapest business paper wrote on Wednesday. Vilaggazdasag notes that only about 15-20 of the courier services operate with more than 1-5 people, and only the biggest two handle 800-1,000 deliveries/day. However, business for bicycle couriers, the backbone of the service, has been going up, a 10pc rise in deliveries in 2003 compared to 2003, and a 12pc increase in 2004 compared to 2003.
Read MoreUK SHOPPERS `SPENDING £17bn A YEAR ONLINE’
Online shopping is booming in the UK, a new report reveals today. Twenty billion UK shoppers are spending £17 billion a year using the internet as more and more people buy via the web. Shoppers are increasingly shunning companies still not geared up to e-commerce and by 2009 a quarter of all UK shopping is predicted to be conducted via the internet in a market worth £80 billion.
Internet sales doubled between 2002 and 2003 – and some popular online retailers have seen sales triple in the last few months. The figures come in a report charting the rise across Europe of all forms of “distance selling” – from catalogues and mail shots to telephone, sales, television and, increasingly, the internet.
French postal unions call for strike
The French trade unions FO, CGT and SUD have decided to protest against the proposed incorporation into French law of European directives on the liberalisation of the postal services market by urging employees of the French post office, La Poste, to stop work for 24hrs when the legislation comes before the French parliament on January 18. The bill in question also gives La Poste the right to set up a credit institution.”
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