Tag: UK

110% hike in postal charges at An Post Ireland

Posted by | Jun 9, 2003 | |

AN Post has demanded an urgent 110 per cent rise in some postal charges to cover its huge losses. A recovery plan, including reconstructing costs of EUR50million, meant losses of EUR70million have already been predicted for 2002. A letter in a leaked dossier, written by An Post chief executive John Hynes, warns of a “significant trading loss” of EUR9million in post services. An Post hopes to raise the cost of sending registered mail by 34 per cent and the cost of posting small packages by 110 per cent. An Post has now written to communications regulator Etain Doyle asking for price increases to be approved without delay.

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UK Royal Mail chief attacks delays in "universal bank"

Posted by | Jun 9, 2003 | |

Allan Leighton, chairman of Royal Mail, yesterday attacked the Government over its handling of the rolling out of the “universal bank” which is intended to reduce the number of people without a bank account and also boost the finances of the Post Office.

Mr Leighton put the blame at the door of the Government for delays in advertising the new “bank” and also for the complicated process customers have to follow if they want to take out one of its new accounts through the Post Office.

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Barclay's buy puts Reality on hold

Posted by | Jun 8, 2003 | |

Chris Gorman’s Reality Group faces an uncertaain future following its acquisition by the Barclay brothers.

Mercifully few people will remember Scotland’s 1998 World Cup anthem by the unknown band, Highstorm.

Chris Gorman, however, will probably never forget a song that aimed to rival one by stars Del Amitri and ultimately heralded the arrival of the mobile phone millionaire’s new venture, Reality Records.

The core business aim of the former director of DX Communications quickly became to embrace the dotcom dream of the late 1990s and transform what soon became the Reality Group into Scotland’s first truly 21st century company.

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UK Royal Mail Chairman Leighton calls for curbs on Postcomm

Posted by | Jun 8, 2003 | |

Allan Leighton, chairman of Royal Mail, is on Wednesday expected to spell out a series of radical reforms to Britain’s regulators. In what will be interpreted as a sideswipe at Graham Corbett, the postal regulator, Mr Leighton will tell a House of Lords select committee that the Government needs to keep a tighter rein on the regulators.

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Customer Demand Leads to Expansion of International Service

Posted by | Jun 6, 2003 | |

Nightspeed is to expand its international road based delivery service to encompass twelve more countries in response to customer needs. Nightspeed, an independently owned express parcel distribution delivery network with headquarters in Tipton and focused on secure parcel delivery has extended World Connect Europe, the two to five day road based delivery service to now include Norway, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, totalling twenty six countries in all.

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