Tag: Europe

TNT gets on its trike to deliver to French city centres

Posted by | Jul 3, 2007 | |

BeCycle delivery tricycle TNT Express is turning to tricycles to deliver express shipments to French city centers and cut its environmental impact.

Nine months of tests in Lyon had shown all the advantages of this means of distribution in terms of reliability, efficiency, service quality and image, TNT Express France said. The three-wheeled delivery bikes were an ecological alternative for deliveries that reduced pollution and noise in city centre areas, it noted.

In Lyon, the express company is currently using four electrically-powered cycles in TNT colours and operated by drivers of the “BeCycle” delivery company to distribute documents and small parcels to about 150 business customers. TNT will expand the Lyon project by acquiring more BeCycle tricycles and adding more districts to the tricycle delivery rounds in October.

At the same time, TNT will introduce a similar service in eight other French cities over the next few months. In total, nine cities are expected to be served by 20 tricycles by the end of 2007.

Depending on the location, TNT will use BeCycle and “La Petite Reine”, which has been providing delivery in Paris since June 2007 and in Rouen. Service started in Bordeaux in July, Nancy, Grenoble and Dijon will gain tricycles in September, to be followed by Montpellier and Rennes at the end of the year.

The initiative is included in the international action plan of TNT which is aimed at reducing CO2 emissions.

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Hermes attacks Austrian Post with low prices

Posted by | Jul 3, 2007 | |

German consumer parcels specialist Hermes Logistik is relying on low prices, a nationwide network and Formula 1 legend Niki Lauda for a successful market entry in Austria. Hermes has created about 1,000 jobs with its operational start this week.

Hermes said that it wants to achieve a market share of 20%, which is about eight million parcels a year, by the end of 2008. Its prices will be up to 60% below those of Austrian Post, and parcels will be priced by size rather than weight.

The company has set up a nationwide network of 1,200 parcel shops and six parcel sorting centres, and taken on 700 delivery staff for its new service. The retail outlets for parcel drop-off or collection are in locations such as newsagents, petrol stations, dry cleaners’ or food stores.

Hermes has gained widespread publicity by signing up the Austrian-born ex-Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda for advertising purposes. “I’m used to taking on monopolists,” declared Lauda, whose airlines Lauda Air and Niki have challenged Austrian Airlines over the last decade.

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TNT Express opens regional hub in Erfurt

Posted by | Jul 3, 2007 | |

TNT Express has officially opened its regional hub at Erfurt airport in eastern Germany. The event on Saturday, June 30, attracted 1,600 visitors during the airport’s summer party.

The regional hub, which went into operation at the start of the year, includes a 3,000 sqm depot along with regional air and road hubs.

“The new location at Erfurt airport is playing an important role in the TNT network,” commented depot manager Cornelia Stöckmann. “Shipments from all of eastern Germany are delivered here and sorted for onward transport by plane or truck.” The location directly at the airport saved transportation time and reduced transit times for local customers, she added.

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The Post Office HomePhone service launches special offers

Posted by | Jul 3, 2007 | |

A staggering one million minutes are given away to callers by the Post Office® every month as part of its free and unlimited call offer. Each month, selected destinations are included in the offer – in August the focus will shift from North America to Australia and New Zealand.
Every Sunday in July, Post Office phonecards are offering customers the chance to chat for as long as they want to friends and family in Canada and the USA for 15 pence per call.
Throughout July, Post Office phone cards also offers free calls every Saturday between midday and midnight GMT to France, Germany, Italy and Portugal – so calling friends and family living or holidaying on the continent has never been easier or better value
Over two million minutes are used by Post Office phone card customers per week. By dialling a free phone number from a UK landline, customers using the cards benefit from great call costs, no connection or maintenance fees and per second billing.
The Post Office HomePhone service was launched in January 2005 and has quickly become one of the fastest growing residential telephony providers.
HomePhone is committed to offering a simple, transparent service and was the first alternative provider to offer a single itemised bill for both line rental and call charges.

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Citipost continues deliveries during Royal Mail strike

Posted by | Jul 2, 2007 | |

On 29th June 2007 Royal Mail postal workers upheld their 24 hour strike.
The union’s executive decided to go ahead with the first national postal strike for 11 years after talks with Royal Mail broke down. Whilst this left many customers unsatisfied Citipost clients were very happy to receive continued end-to-end services during the Royal Mail strike last Friday. As a result, BBC News interviewed Daniel Charlesworth, Chariman, Citipost to see how Citipost was responding to client needs during the strike. The BBC News team also went out with one of Citipost’s drivers in London to see the client deliveries in action.

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