Business Post personnel & product information
Notes of meeting between Robin Parr-Davies & Bill Wallis on 26 Sept 02. Includes details of staff and products.
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Postcomm modifies UK Mail’s licence
Following consultation, Postcomm today approved a modification to the interim postal licence held by UK Mail Ltd.
The modification will allow UK Mail to carry out a wider range of activities for its existing business customers in the event of industrial action by Royal Mail workers, or an emergency or a natural disaster.
Postcomm consults on a licence modification for UK Mail
Postcomm today began consultation on an application from UK Mail Ltd for a modification to its interim postal licence. If granted, the modification would enable the company to provide a full postal service to an unrestricted range of existing customers in the event of serious industrial disruption to the universal service.
Read MoreBusiness Post acts ahead of deregulation
Express delivery group Business Post this week embarked on a media relations onslaught in a bid to take advantage of plans to deregulate the postal market. The group is aiming to raise its profile in the business and consumer press as postal regulator Postcomm finalises details of market liberalisation.
Read MorePost Office rivals free to seek bulk work
PRIVATE sector and foreign postal organisations will today be free to apply for a long-term licence to deliver bulk mail in the UK, despite efforts by the Post Office to hold on to its monopoly.
The sweeping liberalisation of the postal market begins just days after the postal regulator, Postcomm, bowed to pressure from ministers, cross-party MPs and unions to postpone for a year its original plan to open postal services to full competition from April 2006.
Hays DX, UK Mail, a subsidiary of Business Post, TPG, operator of the Dutch postal service, and Deutsche Post, the German national postal group, yesterday confirmed that they would seek licences to deliver bulk mail from January next year.
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