Tag: Royal Mail

Carbon-free parcel first for Parcelforce Worldwide

Posted by | Jan 8, 2007 | |

Parcelforce Worldwide is offering its customers a first in the UK express parcels market – the option to deliver their parcel carbon-free.

Customers booking online can now choose to donate 5p per parcel for UK and 10p per parcel for international deliveries when ordering via www.parcelforce.com.

Having calculated the average amount of carbon emitted for each parcel, Parcelforce Worldwide will match all donations and, through their association with The Woodland Trust, invest it in an approved programme to offset greenhouse gases generated during the journey of that parcel.

Managing Director Vanessa Leeson explained that giving customers the option to send their parcel carbon free was part of a wider approach to carbon management.

She said: “Our business uses renewable energy in our buildings, bio-diesel in our vehicle fleet and pro-actively seeks to increase energy efficiency where practical. While we’d never force carbon offset onto our customers, many of them are telling us that they will choose the commitment.”

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Business Post's UK Mail wins contract with UK govt worth 12 mln stg revenue

Posted by | Jan 8, 2007 | |

Business Post Group PLC said its mail company UK Mail, the leading competitor to Royal Mail in downstream access postal services, has been awarded a major new contract by HM Government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) worth 12 mln stg of revenue per annum.

DWP mails 82 million items a year from two distribution centres in the North East and North West of England. With the Royal Bank of Scotland and DWP, Business Post said UK Mail now has two of the three largest mailers in the UK as customers. DWP will become UK Mail’s largest customer by revenue.

The new contract is due to start on Feb 5.

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Rural group backs UK Post Office closure plan

Posted by | Jan 5, 2007 | |

Plans for the reorganisation of the rural postal system that include the closure of 2,500 post offices have been welcomed by a group of rural campaigners.
The plans were announced to Parliament before Christmas by trade and industry secretary Alistair Darling. He said the restructuring was needed “to protect the national network”.
He said a GBP1.7 billion support package would be provided to maintain GBP150 million-a-year payments to the rural post office network until 2011. In addition, up to 4,000 fee-free cash machines will be rolled out to help customers in areas hit by the closures, he said.
To offset the closures, he said the Post Office would set up 500 “innovative outlets” for small, remote communities, including “mobile post offices and services in village halls, community centres and pubs”.
Sylvia Brown, chief executive of Action for Communities in Rural England, said the present system of post office support was unsustainable. She said: “We want the post office subsidy transformed into a contribution towards a genuine investment plan to help retain access to a range of services within rural communities.
“We are pleased that the minister recognises the future of post office services may lie in combined delivery with pubs, shops or village halls hosting services and sharing premises to reduce overheads.”

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Royal Mail discounts business post

Posted by | Jan 5, 2007 | |

Royal Mail is to introduce new volume-based discount schemes for business mailers from 2 April. While it’s difficult to get excited about a stamp (franking mark or PPI), the new postal prices mean it’s time for businesses to review their mailing contracts again.

Personal mail, such as letters and birthday cards, make up only 10% of the mail delivered in the UK by Royal Mail. The rest is made up of business mailings to other businesses, and to consumers, and consumer post to businesses.
Postcomm Chairman Nigel Stapleton said, “Full competition is off to an encouraging start in 2006 with 18 new operators now in the market. Many large mailers, both in the private and public sector, have switched to new operators who they have found to be reliable and sensitive to their specific needs. Everybody has benefited because, in response to competition, Royal Mail has delivered record service levels.”

A Postcomm survey in October found that mail prices had reduced significantly for 20% of businesses as a result of the increased competition in the postal service.

“We are committed to offering discounts to customers who give us mail that can be sorted by our machines, rather than by hand. These items cost us less to handle so it’s right that we reflect this in the prices we charge those customers,” said Lorna Clarkson, Royal Mail’s Director of Commercial Policy and Pricing.

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Royal Mail rejig creates one of the UK's largest print tenders

Posted by | Jan 5, 2007 | |

Royal Mail Group has launched a tender for its entire print requirement, worth up to GBP400m after restructuring its print management division.
A new unit of about 25 staff, Royal Mail Document Management Services, went into operation on 1 January to handle the Post Office operator’s complete print output.
Royal Mail has also advertised a four-year print management contract worth up to GBP100m per year as part of a bid to streamline its current roster of 79 UK-based print suppliers.
The postal giant is planning that the contract, one of the biggest print tenders ever to reach the UK market, will be won by either a single company or a consortium of firms.
Print involved will include point-of-sale, posters, business documents, labels and internal publications, while other functions, such as finishing, storage, fulfilment, scanning and indexing, repro and digital archiving, are also involved.
Print management sources have suggested that only business process outsourcing giants Williams Lea or Astron would have the financial clout to take on such a large contract alone.
The tender was published in December and includes work for Royal Mail’s three UK operations: its letters business, the Post Office’s retail and financial services, and Parcelforce Worldwide.
Until the contract is set up in late spring or early summer, the new unit will handle all Royal Mail’s print production requirements itself.

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