Tag: Europe

Postcomm extends deadline for responses to zonal pricing consultation

Posted by | Apr 20, 2007 | |

On 20th February 2007 Royal Mail submitted a revised application to Postcomm for permission to change the way that it prices many of its bulk mail services. The application seeks permission to be allowed to vary certain business tariffs according to the geographic location of the recipients of mail (known as “zonal pricing”).

On 2 April 2007, Postcomm, the independent regulator for postal services in the UK, published a letter seeking views from all interested stakeholders on whether Royal Mail should be allowed to proceed with its zonal pricing application.

We have received a number of requests to extend the current deadline of 7 May 2007 for responding to Postcomm’s consultation letter.

We have carefully considered these requests, weighing them against Postcomm’s requirement to make a decision on Royal Mail’s application to introduce zonal pricing no later than 2 January 2008. Postcomm has decided to extend the deadline for responding to its consultation letter to allow interested parties more time to respond and make full use of Royal Mail’s zonal pricing calculator. We expect that better informed responses will greatly help Postcomm’s analysis in developing its provisional conclusions.

The new deadline for sending your views to Postcomm is 1 June 2007.

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Correos acquires six new automatic sorting lines

Posted by | Apr 19, 2007 | |

Correos has acquired six new automatic sorting lines for ordinary mail to reinforce the equipment of its 17 Automatic Sorting Offices located throughout Spain. The aim of this investment is to improve the quality of the postal service and increase management capacity in specific areas in order to implement the post office’s Automation Plan. The investment amounts to euro 15.47 million and the lines will be implemented within a period of 18 months.

The six new lines will be installed in the new sorting office for local mail in the city of Barcelona (three lines); in the first Automated Sorting Office in Castilla La Mancha, which is in Ciudad Real (one line); and in the new Automated Sorting Office in Alicante (two lines).

Each sorting line consists of an optical reader with automatic character recognition and a classifying machine. This is cutting edge technology that is capable of automatically sorting 40,000 deliveries per hour, which has already been proven through the experience with other such equipment that has already been installed, thus ensuring compatibility, continuity and standardisation with other stages of the project and continuity in the Automation Plan.

The acquisition of this new equipment will contribute to considerable improvement in the quality of the company’s processes and in the working conditions of the employees of Correos. The post office will also have greater resources for handling occasional increases in the volume of deliveries, as this increase in equipment means that more deliveries can be handled in the same periods.

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DHL Express UK focuses on printers by publishing its own book

Posted by | Apr 19, 2007 | |

DHL has put together a team of print and publishing logistics specialists to boost its credentials across the supply chain.

The firm launched the new offering at this week’s London Book Fair at Earl’s Court with a publication highlighting its “tailored, cost-effective and efficient supply chain and distribution solutions”. It claimed that 17 out of the top 20 UK publishing houses have already used its integrated services.

DHL Express sales and marketing director Tim Brown said: “The publishing industry presents an exciting opportunity for DHL as we are uniquely placed to provide solutions at every step of the chain, from the shipment of pulp, through to delivery of the book to the customer.

“We are the only express and logistics company to offer this type of service and we anticipate using this publishing industry model as a blueprint for developing complete supply chain solutions across a range of sectors.”

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New classification of DPD Lietuva products titles

Posted by | Apr 19, 2007 | |

Parcels courier service leader in Lithuania company “DPD Lietuva” has finished it’s second re-branding stage – in all Baltic countries it has developed new differentiation of DPD services before named by single name “Bizpak”.

“We have separated four products titles for Baltic region, two international product titles and nine additional services titles. With the unification of services and products titles in all three DPD companies in Baltic countries the “Bizpak” re-branding history is symbolically ending and we expect to strengthen our positions even more in Baltic countries region and entire Europe”, – said “DPD Lietuva” Director of Sales and Marketing for Baltic States Gintaras Bingelis.

According to him, unified services and products titles will enhance customers’ reliance and facilitate their decision and perception which service will be the most convenient to the moment.

“Services and their possibilities for business will remain the same after changing the brand and names of these services. We will continue to seek that every customer would get reliable, high quality logistics solution that meets customers requirements and we will be investing into the new products development”, – said Gintaras Bingelis, “DPD Lietuva” the Director of Sales and Marketing for Baltic States.

“DPD Lietuva” leadership made the decision to change their brand in June 2006 and planes to complete re-branding process from Bizpak to DPD till 2008.

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