More than 1,600 rural post offices could face closure under recommendations from the Post Office regulator. They are set out in a review by the Postal Services Commission, Postcomm, of the GBP150 million-a-year subsidy that sustains the rural network of post offices. The review is now being considered by the Government.
Read MoreDeutsche Post Global Mail has set itself to become number two in the UK postal market. “We want to be the alternative to Royal Mail,” said Michael Proffitt, MD of Europe and the UK for DPGM’s Mail International division. Building on its takeover of Speedmail this year and the award of a long-term license, DPGM has opened a purposebuilt 7,500sq meter mail centre in Croydon, with a capacity of 90m items a year, and has negotiated a downstream access agreement for Royal Mail to handle final delivery. Under the terms of its license from regulator Postcomm, DPGM (UK) will offer businesses mailing more than 4,000 pre-sorted letters a day a two-day delivery service from this August.
Read MoreIt’s a red letter day for Croydon with the arrival of almost 200 new postal jobs and the prospect of many more to come. Deutsche Post Global Mail (UK) Ltd, part of the German post office, looked at a number of sites before deciding that Croydon was the best place to concentrate its international operations in the United Kingdom. It has created a purpose-built headquarters where it now houses 160 staff in a state-of-the-art sorting and distribution facility that can handle up to 7.5 million items a month.
Read MoreCrewe-based Road & sea Express has joined Pall-Ex to serve Southern Ireland.
Read MoreThe Pallet Network was fined £50,000 with £10, 023 costs at Leicester Crown Court after pleading guilty in a fatal accident prosecution.
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