Tag: UK Mail

Business Post's UK Mail wins contract with UK govt worth 12 mln stg revenue

Posted by | Jan 8, 2007 | |

Business Post Group PLC said its mail company UK Mail, the leading competitor to Royal Mail in downstream access postal services, has been awarded a major new contract by HM Government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) worth 12 mln stg of revenue per annum.

DWP mails 82 million items a year from two distribution centres in the North East and North West of England. With the Royal Bank of Scotland and DWP, Business Post said UK Mail now has two of the three largest mailers in the UK as customers. DWP will become UK Mail’s largest customer by revenue.

The new contract is due to start on Feb 5.

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Opening up the UK market appears to have been positive for all concerned

Posted by | Dec 29, 2006 | |

One year after the introduction of full competition in the UK’s postal market, everyone appears to be a winner.

Customers are benefiting from record levels of service and big business mailers are enjoying substantial savings in costs.

Eighteen new postal operators have been licensed and have seized a bigger share of the market than the regulator expected, handling more than 10 per cent of the mail.

Royal Mail remains the dominant force in the industry despite losing its monopoly. Its competitors hand over most of the mail to the state-owned operator for final delivery, leaving it with 97 per cent of postal revenues.

Postcomm, the postal regulator, declares itself pleased with the progress made so far. “Royal Mail has really raised its game, especially on quality of service,” says Richard Moriarty, deputy chief executive. “And the competition has brought a range of new business models, with operators offering different ways of doing things, such as later collection times and guaranteed delivery.”

The state-owned operator is on course to meet all 12 of its performance targets for the first time in the 2006-07 year – these require it to deliver 93 per cent of first-class mail on the next working day and 98.5 per cent of second class mail by the third working day. Two years ago, only four of the targets were hit.

The greatest benefits have accrued to the biggest mail users, which include banks, utilities, local councils and charities. Businesses account for 87 per cent of the more than 20bn items sent each year, with 500 companies providing half of all mail volumes.

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Business Post H1 pretax falls; trading in line, co sees 'much improved' H2

Posted by | Nov 15, 2006 | |

Business Post Group PLC said current trading is in line with its hopes and it expects a ‘much improved’ second half as its pretax profit fell to 1.7 mln stg in the first half from a restated 3.3 mln stg last year.

The company posted sales of 153 mln stg, up 15 pct from 133 mln stg last year with UK mail sales up by 157 pct from 15 mln stg in 2005 to 37 mln stg in the first half of 2006.

Business Post declared an interim dividend of 6.4 pence per share, the same as last year.

The company said good progress has been made in addressing the operational issues in the Parcel Services business and UK Mail has continued to grow strongly, reinforcing its position as the leading competitor to Royal Mail.

The company said it is creating a robust platform to achieve its strategic aim of developing itself as the UK’s leading independent integrated postal group.

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UK Government Minister amongst top speakers at The Mail Show

Posted by | Nov 1, 2006 | |

A line-up of speakers covering the whole spectrum of the mail industry in the UK addressed delegates on Day One of The Mail Show 2006 in London yesterday (31 October). Focusing on the newly-liberalised mail sector in the UK, directors from Royal Mail, Postcomm, DHL Global Mail and UK Mail demonstrated, each from their own points of view, the pros and cons of the first ten months of open competition. The BBC’s Declan Curry conducted a debate with three leaders of customer representative bodies, particularly discussing the need for real innovation driven by Royal Mail and its competitors. Other topics debated on the first day of The Mail Show included demands for further deregulation, lessons to be learned from Europe and different theories on stimulating direct mail growth. In his wide-ranging speech, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, the Postal Services Minister, stressed the importance of balanced regulation with all stakeholders participating with Postcomm to maximise the opportunities which lay ahead.

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UK Mail Award winners announced

Posted by | Nov 1, 2006 | |

A packed audience of 300 postal industry leaders was on hand at the annual Gala Dinner on Tuesday evening (31 October) to see the 2006 UK Mail Awards presented. London-based direct marketing specialists WDMP Communications walked away with three awards, including those for both the best Domestic and International Marketing Campaigns of the Year for Carphone Warehouse and Chelsea FC respectively. Other winners on the night included Marketscan (Database Management), Neopost (Technology) and UK Mail, who were named best Downstream Access Supplier. Royal Mail’s Tonbridge Mail Centre was Mail Centre of the Year, while Royal Mail themselves went away with the Innovation award.

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