Tag: Parcelforce

Neopost works with FrankPay

Posted by | May 25, 2006 | |

Neopost, the pan-European mailroom equipment maker, has made its franking kit compatible with Parcelforce’s new service, FrankPay. FrankPay gives any franking machine user access to all domestic and international Parcelforce services via the web and lets them pay via their franking equipment. ‘This offers customers complete control of all their mail and express parcel costs from their franking machine,’ said a Neopost spokesman. The service also offers users a pounds 1 discount per parcel on normal Parcelforce tariffs.

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Development of competition in the European postal sector

Posted by | Mar 6, 2006 | |

Postal sector regulation and postal sector policy

Forces governing competition (Porter analysis, contestability of markets)

The universal postal operator: facts, figures, strategy

Competitor postal operators and effect of competition on market structure and
market performance

Regulatory framework, liberalisation and access regulation

Market size of the postal sector and country information

Facts and figures for the national postal operator (US provider)

Competitor postal operators and market structure of the postal sector

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UK Parcelforce has big unfair advantage, says TNT boss

Posted by | Dec 2, 2005 | |

Parcelforce has an unfair advantage and should be privatised, the managing director of rival TNT Express Services has claimed. Tom Bell attacked the Royal Mail’s parcel delivery business claiming its VAT exemption was unfair and discriminatory. “It’s not just companies such as mine which are being discriminated against. The taxpayer is losing out because Parcelforce should be paying VAT and those taxes could be used for the greater good of the country,” Mr Bell said. Atherstone-based TNT said the comments echoed sentiments from think-tank The Institute of Economic Affairs. Last year, the IEA said there was no case for Parcelforce to remain in Government ownership and that it should be privatised, even if it led to it going out of business. Mr Bell said: “Parcelforce is subsidised by the Government.

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Letter volumes fall but UK Royal Mail Group’s overall profit rises 20% with boost from European parcels business

Posted by | Nov 17, 2005 | |

Royal Mail Group today announced a 20.5% increase in operating profit to GBP159 million for the first half of 2005-06 but warned that profits in its letters business had fallen as growth in addressed mail volumes went into reverse.
Allan Leighton, Royal Mail Group’s Chairman, said the downturn in letters profits and volumes meant the biggest part of the Company was no longer contributing to the Group’s overall growth in profitability. The Group operating profit of GBP159 million in the six months to the end of September 2005 was a GBP27 million improvement on the same period a year earlier. But the increase was driven by better financial performance in General Logistics Systems (Royal Mail’s European parcels business), Post Office Limited and Parcelforce Worldwide. Operating profit in the letters business had fallen as addressed mail volumes declined for the first time in a quarter of a century.

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Salvesen, Venda and Parcelforce in mega-fulfilment partnership

Posted by | Oct 1, 2005 | |

Christian Salvesen, not hitherto a significant player in the home shopping and e-fulfilment market, has joined forces with solutions house Venda to set up a one-stop shop multi-channel logistics service. A third main player in the operation is Parcelforce Worldwide, which has been appointed by Salvesen to handle most of the actual deliveries. The move is seen by some as marking an important stage in the evolution of multi-channel fulfilment, demonstrating that this is a sector the traditional logistics market now takes seriously.
Initially the service is expected to operate out of Salvesen’s Buxton warehouse, but managing director Stewart Oades says that in theory it can take advantage of any of the company’s 200-odd UK bases.

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