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Collectpoint – convenience store network a winner

Speaking at a meeting with e-tailers
recently, Jim Doyle, head of international development for the PickPoint /
Collectpoint Internet fulfilment business, described the rapid progress made
in the UK over the past twelve months in both recruiting on-line retailers and
also chains of late-night opening stores as collection points for the service. Collectpoint now has a wide variety of on-line and mail order retailer
partners, allowing shoppers to collect their purchases from over 3,200
collection sites throughout the UK. All Collectpoints are open from early
morning to late at night seven days a week and some are open 24 hours per day.
When shopping with a participating retailer, shoppers simply select a
Collectpoint near to their home and pick up their parcel when convenient

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Consignia relies on brand identity to deliver success

There can’t be many plcs less than a year old, that can boast brand
equity dating back hundreds of years.

Consignia, formerly the Post Office Group, became a publicly listed
company in March, inheriting the august brands of Royal Mail, the Post
Office and Parcelforce Worldwide.

But with its new independence comes a newly deregulated and competitive
market, and all, including Consignia, agree it’s going to be tough out
there. The Postal Services Act last year stripped the Post Office of
its monopoly on collecting and delivering post (though post costing
less than £1 is still covered). In June, three other postal operators
got the go-ahead from regulator PostComm to tackle Consignia’s
business.

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Irish Postmasters Plan Industrial Action

The State’s 1,800 postmasters are to ballot on industrial action over the next 10 days and are also planning a march to the Dail on October 3rd. Their aim is to maximise pressure on TDs, and especially Government backbenchers, to have An Post’s Postpoint system withdrawn.

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