Spreadsheet of prices for Fedex & TNT for deliveries between:
Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, UK, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Spain & Portugal.
Twenty UK parliamentarians and RFG members visited Cologne, Frankfurt and Ludwigshafen last month to observe rail freight in action, including post and parcel, intermodal and air services, as well as road, rail and river terminals and BASF’s major operations. We also met DB Cargo, infrastructure provider DB Netz and two independent freight train operators, Connex and Rail4Chem.
We were particularly interested to see how rail freight was operating on the continent, the responses of customers, and the extent to which open access, officially starting in March 2003, had already brought competition for traction, and the effect this was having on customer attitudes.
There’s a Deutsche Post brochure touting its PC postage product StampIT that says, “Franking really can be fun!” though how much fun the post is having with the product is debatable.
Deutsche Post officials say they’re planning to do new market research and conduct focus groups early next year on whether StampIT should be continued as an entry fee- based offering or whether the extra charges should be eliminated.
The new thinking seems to be based on the anaemic customer enrollment StampIT has gotten although Deutsche Post claims it’s on the right track.
Read MoreIn a leading decision handed down on 10 October 2002, the Federal Court of Justice ruled in favour of Deutsche Post in remailing proceedings. The proceedings related to a German credit card company, which had the letters and account statements that were intended for its German customers printed in The Netherlands.
Read MoreBibby Distribution launched Globalliance, a network of partners with which it is moving into global logistics.
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