Beck & Call, the company offering a timed home delivery service for retailers and consumers in south-west London, is now handling home deliveries for parcels carrier Amtrak within its operational area. “It’s a difficult area for us in some ways,” Amtrak managing director Jonathan Smith told e.logistics Magazine. “This arrangement solves our problem, and at the same time pushes more volume through the Beck & Call system.”
Read MoreMail, express and logistics company TPG N.V.’s TPG Post UK subsidiary has signed an agreement with Royal Mail that will give it access to Royal Mail’s 73 mail centres and delivery network in the UK.
Read Moreemail from Paul Jackson: I hadn’t heard the statistic quoted by Roger Higginson at our recent meeting that 77% of the UK mail is below 50gms. I assume it was the UK or was it the EU? Is this a confidential figure?
Response from David Robottom: It was an EU statistic. The volume below 50g within UK is a great deal smaller than 77%. It is a matter of public record and came from CTCON’s research for the commission a few years ago.
Postcomm chief executive Martin Stanley today welcomed the access agreement between Royal Mail and TPG Post UK Ltd under which Royal Mail will deliver post ‘the final mile’ for the Dutch company. Mr Stanley said: “This is another significant step forward for competition in the UK postal market, and a sign that the industry is growing increasingly confident that the access arrangements, driven by Postcomm, will deliver benefits to the customer. We expect other deals to follow.”
Read MoreRoyal Mail has signed an access agreement with TPG Post UK providing the Dutch company with access to Royal Mail’s local sorting and delivery network.
Under the agreement, TPG Post UK will collect mail from its business customers and transport it to one of Royal Mail’s 73 Mail Centres around the UK for final sorting work. Royal Mail will then take the mail to its delivery offices, from where it will be delivered by Royal Mail’s 80,000 postmen and women.
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