Tag: Royal Mail

Candover moves into mail with pounds 349m DX deal

Posted by | Jul 7, 2006 | |

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Candover, the private equity company, yesterday took the fight to the ubiquitous Royal Mail after agreeing to pay pounds 349m for DX Services, the private post group spun out of the former conglomerate Hays 18 months ago.

Royal Mail still has a market share of more than 96 per cent in the UK, despite attempts to open up the market to competition.

Paul Kehoe, the chief executive of DX, said: “There has been 350 years’ worth of inertia in this market and the red post boxes continue to dominate.”

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Scotland set for privatised post trial

Posted by | Jul 6, 2006 | |

Britain’s first fully privatised door-to-door post service to rival the Royal Mail is to be trialled in Scotland.

Glasgow and Edinburgh have been chosen, along with Manchester, for an experiment which will give customers the choice of having collection, sorting and delivery carried out entirely in private hands.

The trial, to be conducted later this year by Royal Mail’s biggest rival, TNT, will see thousands of households visited by two postal workers and could pave the way for greater competition throughout the rest of Britain.

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UK Royal Mail plans GBP10m 'proportional parcel pricing' drive

Posted by | Jul 6, 2006 | |

Royal Mail is launching its biggest marketing campaign to date to explain its new Pricing in Proportion system.

The GBP10m integrated campaign includes a door-drop to every UK address – both business and consumer – and television ads voiced by actor Kevin Whatley. The ads, created by Abbott Mead Vickers. BBDO, will run for six weeks and break next week. Proximity London created the door-drop activity.

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UK union leaders say stress `pushing mail managers to breaking point'

Posted by | Jul 3, 2006 | |

Union leaders called today for an urgent meeting with Royal Mail after claiming that managers were at breaking point because of rising levels of stress.

Amicus said the workload of managers in the postal organisation had become intolerable following hundreds of job cuts.

The union said the problem was highlighted when a London-based manager asked if he could be demoted even though he would lose GBP15,000 a year in pay because he could no longer take the level of stress he was suffering from.

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UK Government must consult on the future of rural and urban deprived post office services

Posted by | Jul 3, 2006 | |

To demonstrate the joined up thinking it wants from Government the 15 organisations of the Postwatch chaired Counters Advisory Group have written to John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister asking for his Cabinet Committee on post offices (Misc 33) to set out the timetable for decisions on the future of the UK’s post offices. There are so many government departments with an interest in the future of the UK’s post offices that it requires a cabinet committee to join up their thinking.

Millie Banerjee, Chair of Postwatch, in support of the request to Mr Prescott said: “The Members of the Counters Advisory Group share one goal: They want customers to continue to be able to access post office services.

“The Group has identified that unless changes are made, access for some customers in rural and deprived urban areas will be jeopardised by unplanned post office closures. Since my appointment last December I have been expecting the government to issue a consultation document setting out their views. Despite many requests we still have not received even a publication date.

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