Prestons of Potto has joined Pall-Ex, the consortium of ahliers set up to deliver palletised consignments around the UK. Prestons, which has an annual turnover exceeding £20m (30.6m Euros) and over 220 vehicles, will act for Pall-Ex in the Teeside region.
Read MoreRoyal Mail has announced proposals for price increases to First and Second Class services from Thursday April 17 2003. Discussions with the industry regulator Postcomm are still underway, but Royal Mail is announcing the proposed date to help customers plan for the change.
Read MoreMike Beer Transport has revealed that it will make a new move into groupage next week. It is targeting France-initially the Paris area- and working in partnership with a medium sized French firm
Read MoreGraham Corbett, chairman of Postcomm, the postal regulator, will this week tell Royal Mail that it will be allowed to raise the price of first and second class stamps by one penny.
Corbett will also reveal he is prepared to drop a number of onerous requirements that were first aired in his controversial three-year pricing proposal last October. But he will fall short of removing all his initial proposals and he wants to ensure that Britain’s postal business remains a competitive arena.
Read MoreRoyal Mail workers may go on strike to stop Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) privatising the Holyrood postal service.
Civil servants are set to hand the lucrative contract to deliver MSPs’ mail to an English firm.
The pounds 1million contract will go to Business Post in Slough.
But the postal workers union CWU will ballot on industrial action over the move, which could see 13 Holyrood postmen made redundant.
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