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UK Parceline launches 'Homecall' service
Parceline has today announced a major move into the fast-growing home delivery market through a new partnership with Parcelnet, the specialists in final mile delivery to residential addresses. Launched under a new brand – ‘homecall’ – the service will begin on 1st June and is aimed at customers sending up to 600 parcels per night. Collections will be made by Parceline’s nationwide network of 1,700 vehicles operating from 42 depots whilst deliveries will be handled via Parcelnet’s 143 sub-depots and 5,000 ‘local couriers’. Parceline Sales Director Dwain McDonald said: “Internet shopping has seen home delivery volumes rise from 15m to 420m shipments in the last six years. Our partnership with Parcelnet gives us instant access to this market, without the need to build our own home delivery network.”
Read MoreHermes and TNT poised to launch strategic cooperation
German parcels carrier Hermes Logistik Group and TNT Express are set to launch their strategic cooperation in Germany within the next few weeks. Hermes is also progressing on creating a European B2C delivery network and plans to start selling parcel transport to European destinations in September. Announcing their strategic parcels alliance last December, the two companies said that they would cooperate in several areas of production, with TNT using Hermes’ domestic linehaul network and Hermes using TNT’s hub capacity and offering TNT express services through its network of 11,000 PaketShops.
Read MoreTesco switches contract as UK postal strike bites
Supermarket giant Tesco have switched a delivery contract from the Royal Mail because of the worsening unofficial dispute which is crippling postal services across many parts of the UK.
Meanwhile private firms holding licences to deliver a limited amount of bulk mail were given permission to carry any mail they wanted because of the dispute.
Delivery of books ordered from Tesco online was given to private firm Parcelnet in a big blow to the postal organisation as it struggles to cope with the effects of wildcat strikes.
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