Tag: Royal Mail

UK Royal Mail MD stands down

Posted by | Jul 4, 2003 | |

Jerry Cope, managing director of UK Royal Mail, unexpectedly left the postal company yesterday only months after the completion of an internal restructuring.
Mr Cope’s position had looked uncertain because of the number of senior executives at the head of the mail business, after Allen Leighton, the chairman, recruited Adam Crozier and Elmer Toime to the board. A spokeswoman for Royal Mail said that Mr Cope had decided to stand down. “One of our priorities is to streamline the size and structure and costs of our mangement team,” she said. Mr Cope had been with Royal Mail for 30 years and had been on the board since 1996.

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Half UK night mail trains could have been saved

Posted by | Jul 3, 2003 | |

Ministers came under pressure to stop Royal Mail’s withdrawal from the railways yesterday, after a document emerged which suggested that the organisation could have saved half its postal trains. To the dismay of rail unions and environmentalists, the government-owned company announced last month that it intended to carry all letters, parcels and postcards by lorry or aircraft, in an effort to save pounds 90m a year. The controversial decision ended a 173-year tradition of “night mail” trains. However, an Australian company which took part in Royal Mail’s review of its distribution network has revealed that the organisation could have reached its target of pounds 90m cost savings by axing only 50% of its rail services. Opcom, a Queensland-based IT firm, provided a specialist logistics software package, Planz, which was central to Royal Mail’s reorganisation.

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DM and e-Mail Marketing Growing in UK

Posted by | Jul 1, 2003 | |

Direct mail marketing has lost none of its popularity, especially for financial services companies. But are they going to take up digital? In the face of an advertising recession, direct mail has been showing continual growth, with spending in the UK rising 4.6% in the first quarter of 2003 and total expenditure at GBP658.2 million, according to the DMIS, which provides direct mail figures for Royal Mail. But that’s not necessarily bad news for digital marketing. Again, according to Royal Mail, 42% of marketers using direct mail also use email marketing, and this figure rises to 50% among the top 500 advertisers. More marketers and agencies are realising that digital media, such as SMS and email, can enhance their use of direct mail in an integrated campaign. ‘We see email and SMS as complementary to the established strengths of mail media,’ says Tim Rivett, head of advertising markets at Royal Mail.

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Postcomm reviews Postcode Address File Code of Practice

Posted by | Jun 30, 2003 | |

Postcomm today published for consultation its first review of the Code of Practice that it introduced last year on changes to the Postcode Address File (PAF) – the list of the postal addresses of all 27 million households throughout the UK, which is maintained by Royal Mail. This Code of Practice for the first time set out rules that, among other things, enabled people to ask Royal Mail to make changes to parts of their postal address.

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