Pall-Ex, stand G26, is a ‘hub and spoke’ palletised transport and logistics operation. The network has 86 members with a fleet of over 5, 760 vehicles. The company recently moved to its new £10 million purpose-built hub in Leicestershire.
Read MorePalletline, stand K12, is a specialist in the collection and delivery of one-to-five pallet consignments. Its fast and flexible service has gown steadily in the line with increasing demand from industry and commerce
Read MoreJohn Hynes, the chief executive of An Post, has begun talks to renegotiate the firm’s postal agreement with international carriers in line with demands from Etain Doyle, the postal regulator.
Under the current agreement, which An Post has still not signed, other postal services pay 73% of the price of a standard 41c stamp in Ireland to have international mail delivered. An Post pays 73% of the price of the stamp in other countries to have Irish mail delivered there.
An Post said it lost EUR40m on international deliveries last year. In recent months, ComReg, the postal regulator, ordered the company to renegotiate the agreement by the beginning of July.
Read MoreRoyal Mail is “at last being dragged, kicking and screaming into the 21st century” with post office customers finally able to use debit cards to pay for stamps, envelopes and other mail services. David Mills, chief executive of the group’s Post Office business, is not afraid to characterise the institution as one that is enduring a painful introduction to the modern world. The jovial former HSBC personal banking chief firmly intends to encourage modernisation. He joined in January last year with the aim of making the loss-making network profitable within five years. The Post Office, which has 17,000 branches across the UK, should exploit more fully its position as one of Europe’s, and Britain’s, largest retail outlets, he says.
Read MorePitney Bowes has teamed up with Royal Mail to offer an outsourced document management service to large-volume direct mailers. The management services division of Pitney Bowes (PBMS) was approached by Royal Mail 12 months ago to develop a broader range of document services from ‘data to doorstep’. RMPB (Royal Mail Pitney Bowes) was then set up to target Royal Mail’s customer base, specifically its larger blue-chip clients. PBMS is run as an independent division of Pitney Bowes, added Bailey, and would not encroach on its mailing line manufacturing.
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