Short backgrounds on the five nominees for the 2004 Industry Leadership Award:
Peter Bakker – TNT Post Group/TPG
Helge Israelson – Post Denmark
Graeme John – Australia Post
Jack Potter – USPS
Elmar Toime – Royal Mail
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At the recent IEA postal conference, Guy Buswell of Business Post reported that UK Mail was positioning its business class service between first and second class. They will sort to the 120 mail centres or the 1400 delivery centres, collect between 1600 and 1930 and deliver to the centres between 0830 and 12 noon next day. There will be some interesting new joint marketing initiatives with Royal Mail and there will be penalty clauses in the contract relationship with Royal Mail. On the parcels side he reported a 50% increase in home delivery and that Business Post carries out 50% of FedEx’ collection and deliveries in the UK.
Read MoreRoyal Mail will come under pressure to abandon its privileged position on VAT when the new postal regulator makes his first public comments.
Nigel Stapleton, who took over as the head of Postcomm last month, will tell a postal conference in Amsterdam that there must be a level playing field for all companies wanting to trade in postal services and that Royal Mail’s exemption from charging VAT is unfair.
Read MoreRoyal Mail has branched out into electrical repairs at its Swindon warehouse in order to cash in on a new but potentially lucrative market in goods returned by shoppers.
Retailers could be recouping up to GBP 5.52 billion a year from such goods, according to a report commissioned by Royal Mail. The problem will worsen when new legislation next year forces retailers and manufacturers to take back unwanted electrical goods.
Read MoreA countrywide postal strike has moved closer as a result of an overwhelming vote by workers at An Post to pursue industrial action. Members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) have voted 83pc in favour of such action in a bid to secure pay rises. The union is refusing to accept a claim by management that it cannot afford to pay the 3pc wage rise due under the national pay deal.
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