Tag: Standard Mail

TNT Post – Royal Mail's biggest rival (UK)

Posted by | Oct 14, 2008 | |

According to the latest annual Business Customer Survey from Postcomm, TNT Post has confirmed its market leading position in the deregulated postal market. The survey of 1800 businesses found that, of those surveyed, 38 per cent were aware of TNT Post’s services, beating its nearest rival by a considerable margin (DHL Global Mail – 24 per cent).

The survey also highlighted that TNT Post, which had the largest base of customers among the survey’s respondents, has seen growth across all types of mailing services such as sorted and unsorted solutions.

TNT Post, formerly TNT Mail, was established in early 2003 and signed its downstream access agreement in April 2004 and began operations in late August 2004. Since its launch, it has developed a number of products for customers including Premier, Premier Sort and PremierSort Flex. TNT Post is the second largest UK postal company and currently handles between 190 million to 200 million items a month.

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Deutsche Post: Letter mail prices within Germany to remain stable in 2009

Posted by | Oct 13, 2008 | |

The prices charged by Deutsche Post for letters and postcards sent within Germany will remain unchanged next year. The Federal Network Agency responsible for regulating the most important mail prices thus confirms the pricing proposal submitted by Deutsche Post.

After a price reduction in 2003, postage for the Standardbrief (standard letter) in Germany remains stable at 55 cents for the seventh year running, with no change to the high quality of service.

The prices for other domestic mail products, such as postcards, Kompaktbrief (compact letter), Großbrief and Maxibrief (oversize letters) as well special services remain unchanged. With inflation currently running at more than three percent, Deutsche Post is clearly bucking the general price trend. Despite rising production costs, Deutsche Post customers will benefit from stable mail prices in 2009 too.

Under the terms of the statutory pricing procedure Deutsche Post has the opportunity to increase prices in 2009 by an average of 0.4 percent for a fixed basket of goods consisting of domestic and international products. The company will not make full use of this flexibility, however, and will instead only implement a slight price increase of 0.1 percent on average through pricing changes applicable to international mail items.

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Lee Spratt tapped to lead DHL Global Mail – Americas

Posted by | Oct 10, 2008 | |

Deutsche Post World Net has announced the appointment of Lee Spratt to the position of President & Chief Executive Officer of DHL Global Mail’s Americas division. Spratt was promoted from Senior Vice President of the Domestic Business Unit to succeed Joe Phelan, who became CEO of DHL Global Mail effective October 1.
During his more than four years at DHL Global Mail – Americas, Spratt has risen steadily through the division’s upper ranks. He arrived in 2004 from QuikPak when that company was merged with two others, Deutsche Post Global Mail and SmartMail, to form DHL Global Mail. To facilitate this integration, Spratt was responsible for developing and implementing a transition plan as Vice President of Channel Sales.
Spratt later served as Vice President of Information Technology and then Senior Vice President of Customer Solutions, which includes IT and Customer Service. After he became Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, the Americas division experienced double-digit revenue growth from 2006 to 2007. He was named Senior Vice President of the Domestic Business Unit in July 2008.

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Business Post Group pre-close interim statement (UK)

Posted by | Oct 9, 2008 | |

Business Post Group plc issued the following pre-close period trading update for the half-year ended 30 September 2008.

Performance has continued in line with the guidance provided at the Annual General Meeting on 9th July, and in line with the Board’s expectations.

The Group has maintained revenue growth, both during the second quarter and for the half-year in total. Group revenues for the half-year increased by 16.3% on the equivalent period last year.

Parcel revenues showed a satisfactory improvement on last year.

Mail business, UK Mail, achieved good growth, driven by new business wins and further mail volumes from existing customers.

Revenues in Specialist Services for the period were up significantly on last year, with new contracts driving a strong improvement in our Courier business.

Business Post Group plc will report its interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2008 on 19 November 2008.

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