The Royal Mail has chosen Nottingham to pilot the ‘Not in Home’ scheme. It aims to help people who, because they are at work, miss home deliveries. The move will also allow staff at some Nottingham companies to receive personal mail at work. Businesses will have secure lockers where parcels can be delivered. Text messages and e-mails can be used to tell workers that an item has arrived.
Read MoreSix carriers account for 71% of the UK international parcels and packets market, according to research by Andrew Lester & Associates. This figure was revealed in the Pac Trac programme, a market monitoring study based on interviews with 500 UK shippers during the March- May period. It shows that DHL held the lion’s share (32%), followed by UPS (20%) and TNT (10%). Together the Royal Mail and Parcelforce have 5% share of the market. When asked which international carrier has the best reputation for quality, the respondents voted FedEx as the winner, followed by DHL and UPS.
Read MoreEurope’s leading post offices head a £10m ( t10.6m) creditors’ list after the collapse in March of wholesaler and lettershop services provider Mail Brokers International.
And there may be more pain to come after holding company MBI Logistics followed Mail Brokers into liquidation last month.
Royal Mail, Parcelforce, Deutsche Post, La Poste, Swisspost and UPS are all owed six-figure sums. But a former MBI member of staff – one of 60 who received no salary or severance pay last month – said it was the smaller creditors he felt sorry for.
Creditors are pressuring the UK DTI to investigate MBI’s directors, accusing them of trading while knowingly insolvent.
A ROW has broken out between the UK’s magazine industry and the Royal Mail over new postal charges which, it is claimed, could lead to the closure of a large number of magazines.
The magazine industry says the Royal Mail could lose up to £50 million in revenues, money that its parent company Consignia, which will this week announce huge losses, can ill-afford to forgo.
The Direct Marketing Association and leading agencies have attacked Royal Mail for proposed changes to the pricing system for business mail postal rates. Royal Mail is currently in a consultation period over the proposed changes that would see new charges being based on the size of mailings rather than weight.
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