Philip Alliet, 39, was appointed new Chairman of TNT Innight Management Europe GmbH and the German TNT Innight Innight GmbH & CO. Kg branch.
Mr Alliet’s new tasks include focusing on the niche market night express. Mr Alliet was a former Group Director of Parcels and Express at Belgium’s La Poste.
Read MoreTNT Express France expects to triple its home delivery volumes this Christmas thanks to the e-commerce boom in France, and handle a total of about six million express parcels in December.
For the Christmas period this year, the number of online orders is expected to be much higher than for the same period in 2006. The French association Fevad (Federation of e-commerce and mail order trading) expects a turnover of EUR 3 billion in online shopping in France this year which would amount to a 22 pct increase compared to Christmas 2006. Some traders are expecting a tenfold increase in online sales.
TNT Express France, which is the delivery partner for about 150 online retail sites, said it has adapted the capacity and resources of its operational network to cope with the strong rise in the quantity of parcels to be delivered to consumers.
TNT will ensure express delivery of presents on Saturday 22 December as well as Monday 24 December. As part of the special service, TNT will offer a 24-hour delivery service until Christmas Eve.
This innovative service ensures maximum comfort especially when it comes to home delivery, TNT said. If consumers are not at home at the time of delivery, the parcels are automatically transported to the next Relais Colis parcel drop-off point. The recipient is then informed by SMS where the item can be picked up. TNT uses a network of 3,800 Relais Colis networks.
Read MoreLetter volumes are stabilizing, the growth in parcel volumes is continuing, and postal revenue is sharply up: these are the three major trends highlighted in the worldwide postal statistics for 2006, published today by the Universal Postal Union.
Since 1875, the UPU has gathered statistics from the operators designated by UPU members around the world to provide the universal postal service. Of the 191 UPU member countries, 163 responded to the 2006 questionnaire. The figures are therefore based on information provided by participating Posts and UPU estimates.
With a total of 433 billion mail items, domestic letter-post traffic was slightly up compared to 2005, returning to the same level as in 2000. The strongest growth was in Africa (+2.1 pct), while the Arab countries saw the biggest drop (-2.5pct). Generally speaking, advertising items had a positive impact on mail volumes, which have faced heavy competition from electronic communications over the past few years.
Volumes of international letter post (5.5 billion items) were down 2pct overall, though there was wide regional variation, with volumes up 8.1pct in the Caribbean, and down a full 15 pct in Africa.
With a total of 6.235 billion items in the domestic and international services combined, parcels traffic was up 4.8 pct compared to 2005.
The biggest rise in domestic parcels traffic was seen in Africa (+11.7). For the international service, it was Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) which saw the biggest increase (+21.4pct). The delivery of merchandise ordered via the Internet is thought to be one of the growth factors.
With a total of 204.8 billion SDR* (equivalent to 308.1 billion USD), worldwide postal revenue was up 13pct compared to 2005. This growth was shared by three-quarters of UPU member countries. Letter post still generates more than half (52.3pct) of operating revenue, but this figure was 7.7pct lower than in 2005. Meanwhile, revenue generated by parcels and logistics services rose by 6pct to contribute 27pct of global revenue. Financial products accounted for 14pct of revenue.
*SDR = Special Drawing Right, the UPU’s official unit of account. At 31 December 2006,
1 SDR was worth 1.5044 USD.
Axel Springer AG’s PIN Group plans to circumvent new minimum wage laws for German postal workers by contracting mail delivery services at publishing houses and regional mail service companies, Financial Times Deutschland reported, citing an unnamed executive at PIN’s Luxembourg headquarters.
Newspaper delivery men and part-time mail men at regional mail service companies earn lower wages and are not necessarily subject to the minimum wage agreement, the report said.
PIN yesterday said it is laying of around 880 employees after the German government decided last week to introduce minimum wages of 8-9.80 eur for postal workers, based on a minimum wage agreement concluded by services union ver.di and an employer’s association dominated by mail incumbent Deutsche Post World Net AG.
Read MoreRoyal Mail today urged people to postcode their festive greetings as 5,400 “address detectives” face up to the challenge of helping 400 million poorly addressed and written cards to their destination this Christmas,
Millions of people are expected to sit down this weekend to start writing their Christmas cards to friends and family,
Royal Mail expects to deliver more than two billion items over the festive period but estimates 400 million cards and letters will not be able to be read by its automated sorting machinery either because the postcode has not been included, the item has been poorly addressed or the handwriting style is difficult to read.
Nearly 4,200 “address detectives” have been recruited for the festive season to support the 1,200-strong team who will decipher the addresses of items that cannot be read automatically so that the letters can still be processed by the sorting machinery rather than by hand.
Alex Batchelor, Royal Mail’s Marketing Director, said: “Mail volumes almost double on peak days in December and it is important that people properly address their Christmas cards and use the postcode. Letters and cards that have clearly written addresses and a postcode can be read by our machines and handled 20 times faster than by hand.
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