Tag: UK Mail

Business Post expects to launch its UK Mail by April

Posted by | Nov 13, 2003 | |

Business Post expects to launch its UK Mail business by next April, to challenge Royal Mail’s dominance of business mail services.

The UK Mail service will collect post from business customers and undertake the initial sorting before feeding into Royal Mail’s system for local sorting and final delivery. Previous negotiations with Royal Mail failed to reach an agreement but Postcomm, the industry regulator, is expected to finalise a tariff for the service by Christmas.

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Business Post announces interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2003

Posted by | Nov 12, 2003 | |

Business Post announces encouraging results for the half year ended 30 September 2003 which continue to deliver progress in line with the Group’s Three Year Plan. During the period, turnover of Express was 7% higher at £63.0m. With service performance levels remaining high, the estimated market share again increased, to a little over 7%. Rapid turnover growth in the Group’s newer businesses (165% in HomeServe and 81% in UK Today) continues to complement growth in the core Express business, and the Group’s recent acquisitions (BXT and Weaver Pallet Express) have added further impetus. Peter Kane, Chairman stated “Trading since the half year end has been encouraging, and in line with management’s expectations. With Express continuing to focus on the quality of revenue, the newer businesses continuing to grow strongly and recent acquisitions trading in line with expectations, the Board expects further good progress in the current year and remains very confident about the Group’s long-term potential.”

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Strike aids UK Mail Post bid

Posted by | Nov 12, 2003 | |

Wildcat postal strikers have aided Birmingham parcels group Business Post’s bid to break into the Royal Mail’s £5 billion monopoly, the company’s boss said.

Paul Carvell criticised the recent stoppages which brought mail services, especially in London, as a ‘bloody nuisance’.

But he warned workers that all the disputes had done was boost his company’s case in the government’s eyes for taking a slice of Royal Mail’s currently protected market.

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Postcomm frees Royal Mail’s competitors to provide unrestricted postal services

Posted by | Oct 31, 2003 | |

Licensed postal operators other than Royal Mail will be able to carry any mail they wish from 31 October, following a determination on that day by Postcomm. The determination is in response to escalating unofficial strike action in London and some surrounding areas. The determination will enable four long-term licence holders to provide unrestricted mail services to any customer and one interim licence holder to provide a wider range of services to existing customers. Under normal circumstances, competitors of Royal Mail are limited by their licences to providing relatively large bulk mail services for business customers. Today’s determination removes these restrictions for a period. Holders of long-term licences are Hays Commercial Services Ltd, TPG Post (UK) Ltd, UK Mail Ltd and Express Ltd. The interim licence holder concerned is TNT UK Ltd.

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UK Mail presentation to Postcomm re access proposals

Posted by | Sep 12, 2003 | |

On 12 September 2003 Royal Mail and UK Mail had oral hearings with the Postcomm Commission regarding the access proposals. Please follow the links below to view the presentations that were made. Certain references which Royal Mail considers confidential have been omitted following its representations.
P:LIBRARYPostalUKMail presentation to Postcomm re access proposals 11.03.pdf

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