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Latest ‘Future of Mail’ paper: “Mail Trends Update” by Fouad Nader (Adrenale Corp.) and Michael Lintell (Pitney Bowes)

Posted by | Feb 1, 2008 | |

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of press articles and statements from posts predicting that mail volumes would decline. New technologies and process innovations have been introduced, preoccupying researchers and managers in the postal and mailing industries with the impact of accelerating electronic substitution and changing customer behaviors. What are the actual trends that emerge from examining in detail the best information available from key countries? What historical perspectives, trends and emerging patterns may be useful in understanding how mail volumes may evolve in the future? The purpose of this paper is to provide further insight into the key trends identified and discussed in the previous Mail Trends Analyses by comprehensively examining the evolution of mail and analyzing postal volumes along key variables that influence mail demand. This paper builds on the considerable research that followed the original mail trends analysis and was documented in the Background Papers published at www.postinsight.pb.com for the project: “Electronic Substitution for Mail: Models and Results, Myth and Reality.” The paper also takes advantage of recent work in the study of the “Future of Mail”, also on postinsight.pb.com.

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Royal Mail raises prices for B2B and commercial (UK)

Posted by | Jan 31, 2008 | |

Financial constraints on printers will increase in 2008 as Royal Mail has announced price hikes for its business-to-business mailing.

However, according to postal price comparison website Post-Switch, the price increases are more likely to affect upstream mailing providers such as TNT and DHL.

From 7 April, Royal Mail will be increasing its Mailsort tariff rates. Mailsort two is going up by 1.5p per unit and Mailsort three is up 0.8p.

Commercial mail prices will also increase, with a first class mailer costing 36p, up from 34p, and the second class price increasing from 24p to 27p.

Jonathan DeCarteret, Senior Postal Analyst at Post-Switch, said: “What we are witnessing here is an attempt by Royal Mail to reduce the margin between its retail rates and the downstream access rates it charges competitors to access the final mile.

“Mail operators wishing to maintain a price advantage over Royal Mail are going to have to reduce their profits.”

Although a number of private operators have entered the UK postal market since it was opened up to full competition in February 2006, Royal Mail continues to dominate final mile delivery. Only 12 pct of the UK direct mail volume has switched from Royal Mail to downstream access, according to Post-Switch.

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TNT takes a special view on express services

Posted by | Jan 29, 2008 | |

TNT Special Services is the latest product from the integrator giving customers wider delivery options.

TNT’s time-critical, freight and special handling services have been put together to achieve double-digit growth within the next five years.

The newly-appointed TNT Special Services Divisional general manager, Grant Cochrane, said: “What we’ve created is an all encompassing solution at TNT by integrating our domestic, international and bespoke services all under one roof.

“This is great news for the customer because it means our centralised customer service team can deal with all requirements rather than going from one part of the business to the other.

“Our time-critical services take over where our previous Sameday product left off. Sameday needed bringing together with the international side of the business to provide a global offering, but at the same time give a truly local service, so we can compete more vigorously with the local courier market. This move will help to achieve that. We will be able to offer a full range of services where the express sales force can help to market our instant response products.”

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Agility, TNT and UPS join forces to help the humanitarian sector

Posted by | Jan 25, 2008 | |

Agility, TNT and UPS, three leading logistics and transport companies, are joining forces to help the humanitarian sector with the logistics of emergency response to large-scale natural disasters. The World Economic Forum has facilitated these initiatives by offering a neutral platform for the development of partnerships between the humanitarian relief sector and member companies.

The first initiative is a set of ten high-level Guiding Principles designed to guide both the private sector and humanitarian community as they work together to provide effective relief to those in need. The second initiative is a unique, pioneering example of collaboration between several companies and the humanitarian relief sector.
The three companies and the United Nations Global Logistics Cluster today on guidelines and conditions for the intervention of joint ‘Logistics Emergency Teams’ (LETs). LETs’ support includes providing logistics specialists (e.g. airport coordination, airport managers and warehouse managers), logistics assets (e.g. warehouses, trucks, forklifts) and transportation services. LETs will intervene for the first three to six weeks following natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, or storms.

The companies stand ready to deploy Logistics Emergency Teams worldwide upon request from the United Nations Global Logistics Cluster. The nature of the request, local situations and the companies’ available resources will dictate the teams’ size and composition. As a general rule, they will serve in countries where member companies already operate, thereby leveraging their knowledge of local constraints. A committee representing the member companies is to answer requests from the Global Logistics Cluster led by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and decide on the deployment of LETs.

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