Tag: UK

Royal Mail fails to deliver says watchdog

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

The Royal Mail was accused of failing to deliver yesterday after new figures revealed that millions of letters and other vital redirected post goes missing each year. It is estimated that 7.5 million letters which people pay to have redirected when they move house or business never get delivered. Which? magazine, published by the Consumers’ Association, discovered that 3% of the letters sent by 1.4 million people who pay to have post redirected never get to their destination.

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UK Royal Mail fails to deliver says watchdog

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

The Royal Mail has been accused of failing to deliver after new figures revealed that millions of letters and other vital redirected post goes missing each year.

It is estimated that 7.5 million letters which people pay to have redirected when they move house or business never get delivered.

Which? magazine, published by the Consumers’ Association, discovered that 3% of the letters sent by 1.4 million people who pay to have post redirected never get to their destination.

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Dutch and Germans plot UK postal invasion

Posted by | Dec 7, 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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Pressicion and Parceline liason

Posted by | Dec 4, 2003 | |

Printing company Pressicion, part of the Adare Group, and Parceline joined forces to successfully manage Abbey’s business relaunch. The companies’ contract demanded total accuracy and timely liaison – 27,500 parcels had to be delivered to 900 different destinations within a three hour window. The relaunch had to be kept secret until the morning of the announcement.

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Double number of pallets- in theory

Posted by | Dec 4, 2003 | |

Business Post says that UK Pallets would gain an additional 174,000 pallets a month if its parcels customers started using recently acquired pallet network. The figure is based on a survey of Business Post’s customers and would more than double throughout UK Pallets.

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