Tag: Mail Services

Royal Mail cuts HR spend by GBP57m in two years

Posted by | Jan 25, 2005 | |

Royal Mail has slashed its human resources spend by GBP57m in two years as part of a massive organisational overhaul, leading HR magazine Personnel Today reveals today. In an exclusive interview, Royal Mail group HR director Tony McCarthy and Kevin Green, director of People and Organisational Development, said that the HR budget has been cut from GBP173m at the start of 2003 to GBP116m. As part of the overhaul, the HR team has fallen from 3,700 to 2,400, which incorporated 1,400 job cuts and 100 new appointments. The HR to employee ratio has improved from 1:75 to 1:130. Other savings have been driven by removing duplication and process improvements in areas such as sickness absence and training.

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Standoff in An Post parcel row pushes company to brink of an all-out strike

Posted by | Jan 25, 2005 | |

An Post moved closer to a strike or lock-out last night when management ordered dozens of parcel sorters off the premises in a row over the company’s decision to close the SDS parcels depot in west Dublin. More than 40 postal workers had been suspended by 8pm and a further 25 on the late shift faced a similar lock-out or suspension later as peace talks continued into the night at the Labour Relations Commission. The management took a tough stance when some sorters refused to load parcels which had arrived off a US flight for transit to a separate parcels depot in Portlaoise. The company intends to shut the SDS Naas Road depot next week with 280 staff facing redundancy and a further 170 being offered jobs within the post office and local delivery office networks.

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Deutsche Post’s DHL’s 2004 losses in US well below 500 mln eur

Posted by | Jan 25, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG’s DHL will post full-year 2004 losses in the US ‘significantly below’ 500 mln eur, Focus magazine said in an article to be published tomorrow, citing sources close to the management. Last September, Deutsche Post said the US losses could widen ‘to as much as 500 mln eur’ from the 300 mln initially planned. Focus also reported that the express mail courier wants to expand its private customer business in the US, and that it hopes to double the private package volume to 32,000 per year.

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Data shows effect of UK direct mail on spend

Posted by | Jan 24, 2005 | |

An unprecedented study has taken data from 9.4 million direct mail packs sent by brand owners to consumers, and matched it with their purchases, as tracked by the Tesco Clubcard database. The results, exclusively published in Marketing Direct, show that direct mail provides significant short- and long-term positive effects on the sale of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG).

The two-year study set out to examine the actual effects that direct mail has on consumer behaviour. Commissioned by Royal Mail and conducted by Dunnhumby, the database and marketing consultancy that manages the Tesco Clubcard database, the study looked at 31 campaigns for 25 brands using information supplied by leading brand owners, including Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Masterfoods and Heinz.

The study looked at the purchasing habits of 10,000 consumers and more than nine million direct mail pieces, using Dunnhumby’s Crucible database, which anonymised Clubcard profiles to protect identities.

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Nightspeed invests GBP 1 mil in new trucks

Posted by | Jan 24, 2005 | |

Nightspeed Secure Worldwide Express has delivered its own GBP 1 million investment in giant new trucks.

The Tipton-based group splashed out on 16 specialised double-deck trailers – one of the biggest double deck fleet upgrades seen in the industry this year.

Bosses said the move would improve reliability and efficiency of the crucial overnight trunking operation. Managing director Ian Pickford, said: ‘The investment in these double-deck units comes after a range of other key investments throughout the year in both the trunking and collection and delivery fleet.’

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