Tag: TNT

DM focus for TNT’s UK bulk mail service

Posted by | Jan 27, 2005 | |

TNT Mail has used this week’s official launch of its bulk mailing delivery service to target direct mail firms.

“With innovative systems, an enterprising approach and competitive pricing, we are setting new standards in the postal services sector,” said chief executive Nick Wells.

The firm has two methods of delivery, a two-day business service, which offers 100pct nationwide coverage for items up to 60g and a five-day option for items from 60g to 2kg, which are delivered by Express Dairies to 20pct of UK households.

At present the two-day service involves the firm collecting, trunking and then sorting and delivering to Royal Mail sorting offices for “final mile” delivery.

The firm’s business offering is a rival to Royal Mail’s second class post, delivering 95pct of its items within two days, a day faster than the Royal Mail’s service.

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Post offices: Pulling the envelope

Posted by | Jan 22, 2005 | |

Technology and competition are putting huge pressure on the world’s postal systems

To get a sense of the future of postal systems around the world, look no further than a bottle of milk. Last year, TNT Mail, the packet-delivery unit of TPG, the Netherlands’ national post office, began using a dairy company to carry packages to people’s doorsteps. At a time when the milkman already seems a vestige of a bygone era–and the postman is struggling to avoid the same fate–this might seem an unlikely alliance. But what makes the arrangement particularly revealing is that it is not happening in the Dutch hinterland, but in Britain, where TPG and the lactose-logistics specialists, Express Dairies, are vying to compete against Royal Mail.

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TPG to become TNT: one global brand for all activities

Posted by | Jan 14, 2005 | |

TPG will operate globally under the brand TNT for all its activities from 2006. If approved during the General Meeting of Shareholders, the statutory name of the group (and the name of the share listed on the stock exchange) will be changed on 8 April 2005 to TNT N.V. The name change highlights the increasing internationalisation of the company. PTT Post adopted the name TPG after it acquired TNT in 1998 and changed its name to TPG Post in 2002. Outside The Netherlands, TPG presently offers postal services in eight European countries, partly under the name TNT. The name change will be accompanied by a change in the company colour to orange for the entire group. The phased introduction of the TNT brand for the Mail division and of its corporate identity will take form starting from 2006.

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2005 – industry’s; hopes and fears.(motor operators)

Posted by | Jan 6, 2005 | |

The Working Time Directive looms large for UK operators; driver ability, messy regulations and greedy parking authorities also cause concern in our straw poll.

Andrew Spencer, MD of pallet network UPN, says: “When the Working Time Directive is in place in March, I think we will see a last-minute scramble of companies wanting to join networks. “I think the market has reached its optimum and we won’t see any huge growth. Prices need to harden – the rate-cutting in the sector is ridiculous. “Our main priority next year is to improve our portfolio of services for members by introducing barcode scanning, PoD scanning and central billing. “In 2005, London will be the area to watch, with the big boys beginning to flex their muscles down there,” Spencer says.

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TPG and unions agree new collective labour agreement

Posted by | Nov 26, 2004 | |

TPG, the largest private sector employer in the Netherlands, and the negotiators for the trade unions ABVAKABO FNV, BVPP, CNV Publieke Zaak and VPP have reached an agreement on a new collective labour agreement. This collective labour agreement has a term of one year (1 May 2004 through to 1 May 2005) and covers around 65,000 employees of TPG in the Netherlands.

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