Tag: UK

UK post workers call off Christmas strikes

Posted by | Dec 9, 2003 | |

The threat of a strike by postal workers in London in the run-up to Christmas ended today when union leaders gave an assurance that deliveries will not be disrupted. Postmen and women in the capital had warned of two 24-hour strikes later this month in a long running dispute over London Weighting allowances. But Dave Ward, deputy general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, said today he wanted to dispel any fears that postal workers would do anything to “ruin” Christmas.

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UK Parcelforce Worldwide looking for agency to handle £5m business

Posted by | Dec 9, 2003 | |

Parcelforce Worldwide is understood to be talking to agencies about its £5m advertising and direct marketing business.

The account is held by the integrated response agency Ladders, which changed its name from Soup earlier this year. Lowe previously handled the advertising account, but its contract with Parcelforce ended last year.

Parcelforce changed its positioning 18 months ago, axeing its non- guaranteed services to concentrate on its time-guaranteed and express services. It ran its first advertising campaign for six years supporting the new positioning earlier this year.

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Dutch and Germans plot UK postal invasion

Posted by | Dec 9, 2003 | |

The two continental postal giants, Germany’s Deutsche Post and the quoted Dutch group TPG, are both competing to buy one of Britain’s biggest independent private mail companies. Deutsche Post and TPG have asked advisers to study the imminent sale of DX Mail, the £250m document exchange and specialist courier business owned by Hays. The delivery business is made more attractive by the fact it was recently awarded the first long-term licence to introduce additional mail services for businesses from Postcomm, the industry regulator.

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UK Royal Mail predicts record e-xmas

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

UK’s Royal Mail are forecasting a recordbreaking e-Christmas this year with shoppers set to spend $5.8 billion on gifts ordered over the Internet.

The Royal Mail expects to deliver over 40 million of the 70 million items that’ll be ordered online, double the number it handled last year.

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