Tag: Royal Mail

Retailers set to overhaul delivery options to maintain home shopping growth

Posted by | Oct 25, 2001 | |

Retailers in the UK are planning a major overhaul of their delivery strategies to ensure the home shopping boom continues, according to a survey released today by Consignia. The survey of 100 companies, which includes some of the UK’s largest home shopping retailers, revealed that 70% regard reliable delivery as the most important influence on the future growth of the market and delivery at a time and place convenient to the consumer was ranked as the second most important factor by 58% of respondents. Unsurprisingly, one of the most popular options for driving future growth in home shopping was time-window deliveries. This was seen as the most likely ‘last mile’ delivery service to fuel future growth by 67 per cent of those surveyed. For retailers operating on-line, the figure was 71 per cent.

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Royal Mail are sticking £1m in stamps

Posted by | Oct 25, 2001 | |

MAIL chiefs are jumping on the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? bandwagon with a megabucks Christmas promotion.

And it’s guaranteed to make the festive season first class for 36 customers.

The Royal Mail has hidden game cards in books of 12 and 24 first class stamps.

One will reveal the illustration of a diamond stamp worth pounds 1million.

Another 10 will contain ruby stamps worth pounds 25,000 each and 25 sapphire stamps worth pounds 10,000 each.

And bosses stress the odds of winning are better than the National Lottery.

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UK Christmas mail volumes

Posted by | Oct 24, 2001 | |

Mail volumes typically rise from about 80m items a day to 140m during the Christmas period, but much of the extra volume has gone second-class. Total volume has also stuck at about 3bn for the last couple of years.

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EU posts notice on Royal Mail monopoly

Posted by | Oct 16, 2001 | |

Royal Mail could lose its near-monopoly on the delivery and collection of letters in the UK before the end of the decade following a EU deal struck in Luxembourg last night.
The company, already facing limited competition in the recently liberalised British postal market, will be forced to accept a wave of new rivals in 2003 and 2006 respectively after ministers from all 15 EU member states agreed to a phased-in abolition of national postal monopolies with a view to creating a harmonised EU single market in the sector.

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Making mail deliver

Posted by | Oct 15, 2001 | |

You can’t please all the people all the time. As expected, Consignia’s minority stake of £2 million in Bristol-based mailing house Mail Marketing International has caused mixed reactions.
The investment, claims Royal Mail, is part of an ongoing strategy to protect mail from cheaper, faster options, like email. By stumping up the cash, the delivery giant says it wants to ensure direct mail has a sustainable future. “The problem,” says Geoff Lambert, finance and commercial director at Royal Mail, “is how to make the industry relevant in a digital age. We’re putting our money where our mouth is. We’re willing to change and to share the risk.”
By risk, Lambert means taking time and cost out of the supply chain. Investment in MMI, he predicts, enables both companies to develop new ways of working, with the solutions they find to be shared among the industry.

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