AS A concerned postman/driver of nearly 18 years service, I feel the need to inform the public of the real impact the postal regulator’s proposals will have on your publiclyowned postal service.
Postcomm has ignored the warnings given by the National Audit Office report Opening the Post.
Read MoreAS a customer who does not live in close range of a branch, I feel very strongly about the postal regulator’s plans to sell off the Post Office.
There will be many private firms only too willing to deliver bulk mail to towns and cities, but where will that leave people living in areas where there are only a few houses?
Does the regulator really think that the Post Office can ever survive once it has granted licences for private firms to cherry-pick, leaving just the unprofitable deliveries?
I think that every MP will know that it is impossible for the Post Office to compete on these terms.
Read MoreThe French Bollore Group, which embraces SDV and Delmas, the transport and logistics companies, posted a turnover of Eur 5.121 billion in the financial year 2001.
Read MoreInvesting in expensive heavy trucks can only be justified where they are guaranteed to run every day — ideally 24 hours a day — and hauliers must try to limit their exposure to risk.
That’s the opinion of Paul Frampton, director of Shepton Mallet-based Framptons, who points out that in his business, heavy trucks cost the most, but make the lowest margin.
LUFTHANSA Cargo has come out with a confidenceboosting assessment of the medium- and long-term prospects for the global airfreight market.
Its views on the industry’s future are spelt out in a new, unique, worldwide study which the all-cargo airline conducted in cooperation with consulting firm MergeGlobal (MGI).
It predicts that the worldwide air cargo industry will experience a strong growth surge next year as it pulls out of the nosedive which started in 2000 and gathered pace last year.
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