Tag: Mail Services

TNT Global Express will be offered at Norway post offices

Posted by | Nov 8, 2004 | |

TNT Global Express offers private customers and small businesses in Norway a new and faster alternative for express delivery of parcels to recipients abroad. The service will be available from 8 November at more than 300 post offices throughout the country. “In cooperation with TNT we have developed a better express product for our customers, in order to satisfy the increasing market demand for faster distribution of parcels abroad” says Arne Bjørndal, Senior Vice President, Norway Post. ’TNT Global Express kontant’ offers private customers and small businesses faster delivery of parcels to recipients abroad. Both documents and goods can be sent as express parcels. The maximum weight of ‘TNT Global Express kontant’ is 30 kilos per item.

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Secure parcel carrier wins a million pounds of national and regional government contracts

Posted by | Nov 8, 2004 | |

Nightspeed Secure Worldwide Express, based in Tipton, has launched GOVMAIL in partnership with the Government Car and Despatch Agency (GCDA) which provides secure inter departmental same day delivery and collection service for the Government and wider public sector. The independently owned company was awarded ‘UK Secure Parcel Carrier of the Year’ for three years running by its industry trade body, the Institute of Transport Management. Nightspeed Secure Worldwide Express, originally part of Group 4 security, has signed a ten year public private partnership deal which will be dedicated to secure parcel transit for the Government. As part of the overall contract, new regional account wins include NHS logistics, The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and the Home Office as well as Northamptonshire Police, the National Assembly for Wales, Her Majesty’s Prison Wormwood Scrubs, the West Country Ambulance Service, English Heritage, and the DVLA.

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Irish postal workers must consider pay offer

Posted by | Nov 8, 2004 | |

The country’s 10,000 postal workers are to consider whether to accept a pay rise offer of 5.5% over four years. The proposal was made during talks with An Post management at the Labour Relations Commission. But the Communications Workers’ Union has said An Post’s plans for the future of collection and delivery services would have a devastating effect on the country’s postal system. National Officer Sean McDonagh has said they are also seeking a mandate for industrial action.

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Spanish private equity firm Nazca Capital exits Spain’s largest private postal operator

Posted by | Nov 8, 2004 | |

Nazca has reached an agreement with Deutsche Post for the sale of its holding of 33% that it had in Unipost, the largest private operator in the Spanish postal sector. The acquisition of the private equity firm’s holding will be effective from the end of October 2004 once Spain’s equivalent of the Monopolies Commission has authorised it. Nazca’s investment was made 18 months ago in June 2003. The transaction was for an undisclosed amount, but Nazca stated it had obtained a return significantly higher than the market average, exceeding its own expectations.

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An Post set to sell off firms for 30m

Posted by | Nov 8, 2004 | |

Loss-making An Post has decided to sell off two of its subsidiary companies which retail mobile phone top-ups, in a move which could raise up to 30m for the State-owned group. In recent days, Goodbody Stockbrokers has circulated potential buyers with an information memorandum on the sale of the two operations, the Irish Independent has learned. The two companies – PostTS UK, which is based in Crewe, Britain, and An Post Transaction Services SA, based in Madrid – are understood to be profitable and they employ a total of 100. The British company has made a gross turnover of GBP11m, according to its most recently-filed set of accounts. The UK operation has a network of terminals in 9,500 stores across Britain which allow consumers electronically top up the credit on their mobile phones. The Spanish operation, which has been longer established, has built up a network of over 11,200 terminals.

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