The Post Office has announced that it plans to charge £14 per week for customers who wish to receive their mail before 9.00 am, according to a report on the BBC 6.00 pm news. The Post Office will be carrying out a pilot scheme of the new charges for deliveries in certain areas from next week, it said.
Read MoreSwansea businesses and residents could soon have to pay £62.50 a month to guarantee their mail arrives before 9am. Under a huge shake-up of postal services, the Royal Mail says it will soon only be able to promise early morning deliveries to those addresses in Llanelli and Burry Port that receive an average of 20 or more letters a day. Everyone else will either have to wait until after 9am or pay for the service when the changes start later this month.
Read MoreAndrew Lester & Associates has just delivered the first of four sets of research findings on the UK parcels and packets market in 2002. The PacTrac Programme is a continuous market monitoring study that reports quarterly on parcel and packet shipments, carriers used and types of service levels required.
Read MoreThe 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.
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