Tag: Europe

Consignia aims to improve e-commerce delivery

Delivery has been a problem for e-commerce in the past, but Consignia’s new services aim to improve the experience for buyers and sellers

Gift and grocery delivery may be easier this Christmas, thanks to expanding schemes from Consignia, the new brand name for the Post Office. Non-delivery and late arrival of goods ordered online has been a major problem in the past two years, but services from Consignia could improve matters for some buyers and sellers.

Local collection services, which started in five areas three months ago, are now available across the whole of the country. Local collection allows items to be picked up from the recipient’s nearest post office. About 2,000 items a day are now collected locally and over 110 sites offer the service free, Consignia said.

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An overnight failure

The reluctance of shippers to commit to rail freight has been blamed for the failure of Railion’s Overnight Express service from Amsterdam to Milan, which stopped operating last week.
Railion claims that after 18 months providing a reliable service, shippers still refused to back the passenger/freight pilot pr ject, initially heralded as the first in a network oIhigh-specd freight connections.

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French Post Keeps Financial Services

La Poste, France’s state-owned post office, has no intention of spinning off its financial services, the institution’s chairman is quoted as saying Monday. Aside from its mail delivery activity, La Poste is France’s second- or third-largest retail banking institution, and can’t function without its financial services activity, Martin Vial is quoted as saying in an interview in Le Figaro.

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