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TNT Express launches new online portal for German customers

Posted by | Sep 5, 2007 | |

TNT Express has launched a new version of its ”myTNT” online portal for small and medium-sized customers in Germany to manage their domestic and international express shipments.

The portal offers customers the opportunity to manage the entire shipping process from price enquiries, shipping orders and shipment tracking through to invoicing, TNT Express Germany said. Customers could also select options such as “receiver pays” and individual collection and delivery times. Through its integration in TNT’s operative systems, many customer processes would be speeded up and simplified.

The web-based, e-business application is designed for SMEs, and thus expands TNT Express’ portfolio of electronic shipping services, the company added. TNT Express Germany said that it had already registered a “significant” rise in online shipping in recent years, and aimed to further strengthen this trend.

Across TNT Express as a whole, more than 80,000 customers in over 60 countries use online solutions for shipping orders, the company said.

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TNT's Very Important Hi-Tech Contract Powers Up

Posted by | Sep 5, 2007 | |

biggest IT distribution companies to ensure the speedy delivery of thousands of PC components and software products to hundreds of High Street retailers and PC builders.
TNT’s latest deal with VIP Computers, for an undisclosed fee, is the start of a close partnership between the two companies to ensure seamless service to VIP’s customers.

The contract will also include a small number of international deliveries, where the 56-bay TNT depot at Liverpool John Lennon Airport will be utilized. The depot currently handles more than half a million deliveries on the international side of the business each year.

John Peden, Strategic Account Manager, TNT Technology Express, said:” We’ve tried as much as possible to integrate with VIP IT systems to provide a seamless, real-time information exchange between their systems and ours (based on world standard XML technology).

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Swiss Post extends international express drop-off points to 65 rail stations

Posted by | Sep 4, 2007 | |

Swiss Post yesterday announced it was widening its international express services to provide drop-off points for urgent documents and packages at the luggage counters of 65 CFF rail stations in the country.

International shipments will be collected by TNT Swiss Post to be transported through its URGENT channel to over 200 countries. Swiss Post’s PickPost service, for picking up parcels, has already been available in offices at 44 CFF stations and will also be expanded to the luggage counters.

The luggage counters began handling international express deliveries this week and are open to drop-off during their normal opening hours, including weekends and holidays.

Deliveries to European destinations are normally concluded next working day, the group said, and can be followed using its track-and-trace system. The counters will hand documents weighing up to 5kg and parcels up to 10kg for worldwide distribution.

Registered PickPost users can now opt to collect their packages at any of 300 pick-up points – CFF luggage counters and petrol stations as well as PickPost offices – throughout Switzerland once informed of their readiness by SMS or e-mail, rather than wait for delivery at home or in the office.

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Viapost service to challenge postal operators

Posted by | Sep 3, 2007 | |

Royal Mail and other postal operators will face a new competitive challenge next month, with the launch of a service that promises to cut the cost of business mail and reduce the carbon emissions of sending letters through the post.

Viapost will allow customers to e-mail letters to distribution centres around the country, where they will be printed out, folded and sorted before being handed over to local Royal Mail distribution centres for final delivery to the recipients.

Although Royal Mail will deliver for Viapost over “the final mile”, the new service is likely to take business from its collection and sorting business where t has already lost a large share of the market to competitors such as TNT Post and UK Mail.

The state-owned operator is currently locked in negotiations with the postal union over its modernisation plans, with a deadline of Tuesday for reaching agreement to avoid further strikes.

However, the new service will also pose a threat to Royal Mail’s competitors, since it could prove attractive to the large business mailers that have already switched to private-sector providers but want to reduce their carbon footprint.

The Viapost regional centres will be much closer to the 70 Royal Mail access points that take in post for final delivery and using them will reduce carbon emissions associated with mailings by up to 60 per cent.

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PIN, TNT Germany create employers' association to fend off German postal minimum wages

Posted by | Sep 3, 2007 | |

PIN Group AG and TNT NV’s TNT Post Germany have founded a new employers’ association to scupper a minimum wage of 9-10 eur sought by rival Deutsche Post World Net AG, PIN’s chief executive Guenter Thiel told Focus magazine.
He said the existing employers’ association headed by former Deutsche Post management board member Wolfhard Bender does not represent the whole industry’s interest, but only those of Deutsche Post.
‘I’m pro minimum wages, but (I’m) contra a dictate by monopoly company Deutsche Post,’ TNT Post Germany’s chief executive Mario Frusch told Focus magazine.
The two companies also plan to include publishing houses in the new association, whose distribution networks Deutsche Post’s competitors could use in the future.
Luxembourg-based PIN Group is 71.6 pct-owned by Axel Springer.

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