Mailboxes etc., has 250 mailboxes and offers services such as photocopying, stamps and packaging. Today the Norwegian franchisee has some 100 permanent customers in Oslo. The goal is to establish offices in another 60 Norwegian cities within the next 10 years.
Read MoreTHE Royal Mail is to launch trials of new “delivery patterns” which will lead to post arriving later and the ending of second deliveries, it was announced today. The changes, to be tested in 14 areas of the UK, will mean a single delivery arriving by lunchtime. The plans, due to be extended across the country from the autumn, are expected to lead to job losses among postal workers.
Read MoreLeaders of a million businessmen and women who work from home tonight attacked plans to deliver post later in the day and end second deliveries. The Royal Mail said the changes, to be tested in 14 areas of the UK, will mean a single delivery arriving by lunchtime. Royal Mail said some people will receive later deliveries, although others could see no change, or even have post delivered earlier than at present.
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Read MoreBirmingham-based Business Post, one of the four companies with licenses to compete with the Post Office, has rubbished talk that the competition would lead to the collapse of the national mail service. Business Post’s chief executive Paul Carvell said yesterday talk of the Post Office’s imminent collapse was overdone. ‘I bet you the Royal Mail will still have 95 per cent of that market in two to three years time,’ he said. ‘A few players like us coming in and taking a few percentage points will not do the damage they are saying. ‘I’d be the happiest chief executive in Birmingham if I had around three to four per cent market share in the next four years.’
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