Deutsche Post has become the first of the big foreign postal operators to attempt to show the loss-making Royal Mail that it can deliver the post more efficiently. The German company yesterday was awarded an interim licence from the regulator Postcomm, pitting against the likes of Hays and Express Dairies’ milk floats in the battle to provide an alternative to Royal Mail.
Read MoreFollowing consultation, Postcomm today issued a short-term licence to Deutsche Post Global Mail (UK) Ltd. The licence, which runs for one year, will enable Deutsche Post to provide a mail service to a small group of new clients and existing clients of the company’s cross-border postal services between customers in different member states of the European Union.
Read MoreVan Gend & Loos Euro Express, a subsidiary of the Deutsche Post AG, is to set up five `packstations` in the Netherlands. Already this month, centrally located locker points, i.e. systems with special access codes for customers, are to be opened in Amsterdam where customers will be able to collect their parcels 24 hours a day. As soon as his consignments have been delivered to the nearest locker, the customer is notified by email of SMS. Local partners offering to house these lockers include restuarants of fast food chain McDonalds. Van Gend & Loos expects that in the next few years a comprehensive network of such packstations will be set up all over Europe. Deutsche Post has already successfully trialled a comparable project in Mainz and Dortmund.
Read MoreStinnes, the Schenker logistics parent group which is under a takeover bid from Deutsche Bahn, a land transport company, has posted Euro 130 million (US$128 million) in mid-year operating profit, a 2 per cent rise from the first six months of 2001.The figures are before adjustment of transfers to provisions of a stock option programme; adjusting for it, the operating profit rose by 20 per cent. External group sales decreased by 8 per cent to Euro 5.9 billion in a weak economic environment and lower prices, Stinnes said.
Read More16 Aug 2002, Deutsche Post has bought the remaining 40% of Servisco Parcel Service, Poland.
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