Tag: Royal Mail

Consignia may cut use of mail trains

Posted by | Nov 14, 2001 | |

Consignia, the state-owned postal services group, is considering drastic changes to its distribution network that could lead to a big reduction in its use of mail trains.

A review of the company’s transport needs is understood to be seeking substantial savings in the cost of distributing 80m letters a day, of which about 20 per cent go by train.

The review is led by Paul Bateson, managing director of logistics, who was formerly an executive at TNT, the road-based logistics group. It is expected to report by Christmas as part of the company’s attempts to cut its Pounds 8bn costs by about Pounds 1.2bn.

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Royal Mail Flying to Germany

Posted by | Oct 31, 2001 | |

Royal Mail has launched a new charter air
service dedicated to transporting its mail to Germany. The Stansted to Hahn
flight will be operated by Channel Express using a Boeing 737-300, the
carrier said in a statement. Scheduled passenger flights are normally used
to carry the postal operator’s international mail.

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An overview of national carriers

Posted by | Oct 25, 2001 | |

There’s no lack of choice in carriers for packets and parcels. The trick is to find the ones that offer the best match according to the order of importance of speed, economy, reliability, comprehensive UK coverage, proof of delivery, handling returns, tracking-and-tracing, add on services and convenience.

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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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