Tag: Europe

Royal Mail stops grey fleet usage (UK)

Posted by | Dec 12, 2007 | |

The Royal Mail has confirmed that it is to stop its employees from using their own vehicles for work. More than 8,000 of the Royal Mail’s 120,000 staff currently use their own transport while at work.

They will be required to end the practice within the next two to three years and use alternatives provided by Royal Mail as part of a wider £1.2 billion upgrade investment.

According to a Royal Mail spokesman, delivery staff should never have to use their own vehicles, although it has become accepted practice in some areas.

However, on occasion, postmen and postwomen ask to use their vehicles to travel to and from their delivery route in preference to officially planned transport.

Approval is subject to an assessment by the local delivery office manager and considerations include insurance, health and safety and security.”

Despite these checks, the Royal Mail has said it will now insist that employees no longer use their own vehicles at work.
The Royal Mail said the initiative would take several years to complete, but that it had the backing of staff, especially after they had been presented with alternatives such as electric trolleys.

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Austrian Post retains A&M-Weltbild

Posted by | Dec 12, 2007 | |

Austrian Post said it has renewed a delivery contract with mail-order company A&M-Weltbild securing two million parcels and 27 million mailshots per year. The deal follows a similar contract with larger mail-order firm La Redoute and the loss of two key customers, Otto and Quelle.

Austrian Post general director Anton Wais said that the contract meant a long-running partnership could be continued, and he was pleased that Austria’s largest mail-order firm for books and entertainment was continuing to rely on the postal operator.

A&M-Weltbild, with a product portfolio of more than 2.5 million products, delivers a regular catalogue to 450,000 households 14 times a year.

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Dieter Weng Appointed as New FEDMA Vice Chairman

Posted by | Dec 11, 2007 | |

Dieter Weng, the President of the German Direct Marketing Association (DDV), has been appointed as the new Vice Chairman of FEDMA at the Board meeting on 15 November.
The addition of Dieter Weng completes the FEDMA Executive Committee, which consists of the Chairman, four vice-chairmen and the Treasurer. Weng will keep this post until the FEDMA Annual General Assembly in April next year.
FEDMA is thrilled Mr. Weng has agreed to be a Vice Chairman. The FEDMA Chairman, Emma Lawson, said after the Board meeting “Dieter Weng will, with his knowledge and experience bring valuable input to the running of FEDMA”.
Weng has been the President of DDV since 2005 and is a consultant with a focus on coaching, path finding and communications. He is 61.
FEDMA is the unique voice of the European direct marketing industry. Its national members are direct marketing associations (DMAs) representing users, service providers and media/carriers of direct marketing. FEDMA also has more than 200 direct company members. Today, direct marketing strategies (via mail, telephone, Internet and direct response) are an essential tool for companies to approach, inform and retain customers, as well as providing customer relationship services.

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Germany plans to limit D.Post tax privileges-paper

Posted by | Dec 11, 2007 | |

Germany’s Economy Ministry plans to curtail the tax privileges of Deutsche Post DPWGn.DE so that only postage stamps will be exempt from value added tax (VAT), a German newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Competitors of Germany’s biggest mail delivery company have complained that Deutsche Post has an unfair advantage over them because it is the only firm which has enjoyed sweeping VAT exemption privileges.

According to internal Economy Ministry documents obtained by Financial Times Deutschland newspaper, the ministry plans to help level the playing field by limiting Deutsche Post’s VAT exemption to postage stamps.

This means that mass mailings without postage stamps and other postal services will no longer be exempt from VAT.

Deutsche Post loses its domestic mail monopoly next year.

However, German government plans for a minimum wage in the postal sector have made rivals rethink their challenges to Deutsche Post when its monopoly ends.

One of Deutsche Post’s main rivals, mail delivery company PIN Group, said last week it will have to cut more than 1,000 of its 9,000 jobs in Germany due to Berlin’s plans to put a floor under wages in the sector.

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Office Depot entrusts European mail distribution to Spring Global Mail

Posted by | Dec 11, 2007 | |

Office Depot, one of the world’s largest sellers of office products, has chosen Spring Global Mail as its sole supplier for European mail distribution. The contract, worth EUR 180 million over a three year period, will see Spring managing the distribution of 175 million catalogues each year across ten European countries.

Office Depot and Spring have already been working together for a number of years, with Spring distributing Office Depot’s Viking Direct catalogues in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Ireland. A combination of proactive account management, reliable service and reduced costs resulted in Spring also being awarded the distribution of catalogues in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy.

“Improving the efficiency of suppliers across the supply chain is a key part of Office Depot’s strategy”, says René Crins, European Project Director for Office Depot. “Spring have real expertise in the field of international mail and they apply this knowledge to find the optimal postal distribution solutions in each of the European markets in which Office Depot operates. This, combined with the meticulous way Spring manages our mailing plans across the supply chain, has resulted in the appointment of Spring as our sole supplier in this critical area.”

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