Tag: Mail Services

Royal Mail Group employees lead the way in carbon offsetting (UK)

Posted by | Jan 14, 2008 | |

The Woodland Trust is challenging businesses to follow Royal Mail Group’s example in enabling its people to offset their carbon emissions by planting trees.

Already 130 employees from Royal Mail, Post Office Ltd and Parcelforce Worldwide have signed up to the newly launched scheme to give money direct from their wage packets to the Woodland Trust, which will enable the charity to plant and look after 2,500 trees in its 1,000 UK woods.

To find out how many trees the employees would have to plant to offset their annual carbon footprint and to get tips about how to reduce their emissions they used a revolutionary new carbon calculator called Ollie.

This calculator, developed by Royal Mail, asks employees about their home energy usage, as well as car and air travel before calculating how many trees will need to be planted to help offset their carbon footprints.

This is the first time a company’s employees have ever been given the opportunity to offset their residual carbon emissions tax free through their wage packets to a charity which specialises in UK woodland creation.

Now Royal Mail has launched the scheme internally the company has gifted the carbon calculator to the Woodland Trust, which is challenging other businesses to follow Royal Mail’s example and offer their employees the opportunity to help offset their carbon footprints.

Royal Mail staff are no strangers to giving to charity though their wage packets, which is called payroll giving. Royal Mail was among the first organisations to set up payroll giving in 1989 and its scheme is one of the largest in the UK. The calculator is being promoted directly in the workplace by representatives from Payroll Giving in Action, who help employees to do calculations and fill out pledge forms.

About 50,000 staff are currently signed up to payroll giving and during the last financial year gave more than GBP 2.6 million to charitable causes.

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DHL Express expands Swedish consumer parcel network

Posted by | Jan 14, 2008 | |

DHL Express Sweden has expanded its recently-created network of 1,100 Servicepoints for consumer parcel services through an agreement with Scandinavian retail group Reitan Servicehandel. The expanded service is a key part of DHL Express Nordic’s strategy for 2008.

Under the deal, Swedish consumers and SMEs will be able to drop off or pick up their parcels at DHL Servicepoints within 7-Eleven stores and Pressbyran newspaper kiosks and shops located across the country, DHL Express Sweden said in a statement.

Reitan Servicehandel operates 72 7-Eleven shops in Sweden in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Helsingborg and Malmo, while there are 318 Pressbyran outlets across the country attracting some 1.4 million customer visits a week, according to the group’s website.

DHL Express already has a network of 1,100 Servicepoints in Sweden operated as shop-in-shop services under contracts with a wide range of retailers. Private customers can hand in or collect their parcels at the Servicepoints.

Consumers sending parcels can book the shipment with DHL online and receive a shipment number to attach to the parcel. Payment is made directly to the retailer. Customers receiving parcels are informed by SMS or e-mail that their item is ready for collection.

The expanded service is a key part of DHL Express Nordic’s strategy for 2008 to strengthen its leading position in the region, said Martin Södergård, managing director of DHL Express Nordic.

The key aims were to intensify customer dialogue and make DHL Express more attractive as a potential partner by investing in service and improving access to products. “For me the Nordic region is a very exciting region because we have the chance to offer our customers a comprehensive product portfolio,” he commented. DHL Express Nordic, with 6,000 employees, covers Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the three Baltic states.

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Wincor Nixdorf and DigitalPersona Partner for retail POS systems

Posted by | Jan 14, 2008 | |

Wincor Nixdorf has formed a partnership with globally-recognized biometric authentication solutions provider DigitalPersona to set new standards for POS technology.

Through this alliance, Wincor Nixdorf and DigitalPersona are able to provide advanced POS solutions to their respective clients by incorporating DigitalPersona’s biometric fingerprint solution into Wincor Nixdorf’s TP.net POS software platform. With this integrated solution in place, retail employees can log in and out of each shift, sign on to casher’s stations and log into back office terminals by simply scanning their finger, eliminating the need for employee badges, sign-on cards and all hardware associated with these items. The technology also enables retailers to more accurately monitor employee behavior, decrease payroll fraud and maintain timekeeping integrity in their stores.
Wincor said additional benefits to retailers incorporating this integrated solution include:

Providing a more secure network by using fingerprint authentication rather than static numerical pass codes or key entry for various managerial tasks.
• Significantly increasing the speed of each transaction throughout a retail chain, ultimately delivering a strong ROI.
• Eliminating “buddy punching”
• Reducing shrink opportunities
• Improving overall profitability/return on investment
• Achieving regulatory compliance (PCI, SOX)
• Gaining credible evidence for lawsuits
“By adding fingerprint authentication to Wincor Nixdorf’s TP.net solution, retailers improve their profitability, gain greater accountability and simplify compliance efforts,” said Jim Fulton, vice president of marketing at DigitalPersona. “In addition, employees enjoy the ease and convenience of not having to carry keys or swipe cards.”

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