Tag: Royal Mail

UK Mail MD talks of transforming the market place

Posted by | Mar 8, 2004 | |

At the recent IEA postal conference, Guy Buswell of Business Post reported that UK Mail was positioning its business class service between first and second class. They will sort to the 120 mail centres or the 1400 delivery centres, collect between 1600 and 1930 and deliver to the centres between 0830 and 12 noon next day. There will be some interesting new joint marketing initiatives with Royal Mail and there will be penalty clauses in the contract relationship with Royal Mail. On the parcels side he reported a 50% increase in home delivery and that Business Post carries out 50% of FedEx’ collection and deliveries in the UK.

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UK Royal Mail launches 9am guaranteed courier service

Posted by | Feb 26, 2004 | |

Royal Mail has launched a guaranteed 9am next-day delivery service for businesses. The service is available through post offices or business collections and will be backed by a television, press and direct mail campaign. It offers customers a track-and-trace and compensation against loss or damage package at a cost of GBP6.95 for a standard-sized document. It operates as a courier service that does not go through the normal postal network. It is entirely separate from Parcelforce, which caters for bulkier and heavier items. This is the first time that Royal Mail has directly challenged the courier market.

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Upper weight limit for UK standard parcels changing from June 1 2004

Posted by | Feb 12, 2004 | |

Royal Mail announced today (February 10 2004) that a change to the upper weight limit of its standard parcels service will be made from June 1 2004. The change, announced in October 2003, was previously due to take place from April 1 2004. Royal Mail, in agreement with its regulator Postcomm, is changing the upper weight limit for the standard parcel service from 30kgs to 20kgs. Less than one per cent of the four and half million standard parcels a year are affected by the change.

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UK Mail deal opens door to delivery network

Posted by | Feb 11, 2004 | |

Royal Mail is in preliminary talks with the Dutch and German postal services, TPG and Deutsche Post, about allowing them access to its delivery network
after reaching a ground-breaking deal with a British rival yesterday. The deal is the first of its kind in Europe and was concluded after two years of talks. It in effect freezes regulator PostComm out of the process of enabling access to Royal Mail’s network of 73 mail centres and 1,450 delivery offices. It is understood that negotiations on a similar deal have already begun with TPG, which has a full licence, and with Deutsche Post, which is holding talks with PostComm on a winning a full licence to compete in Britain. Other groups waiting in the wings are Hays and Express Dairies.

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UK mail deal sets precedent for market liberalisation

Posted by | Feb 11, 2004 | |

A significant hurdle to the liberalisation of the postal market was cleared yesterday after Royal Mail agreed for the first time to deliver letters collected and sorted by a private company. The terms of the agreement are likely to set a precedent for deals between the state-owned mail group and companies such as Deutsche Post of Germany and TPG of the Netherlands, who have tried to break into the UK market for several years.
From April, Royal Mail will deliver post that is collected and sorted by Business Post, its private sector rival. Rather than emptying post boxes on the street, Business Post, through its subsidiary UK Mail, will collect mail from businesses such as phone companies and utilities that send letters in bulk.

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