Express parcel delivery firm Nightspeed Services has won a pounds 2.1 million three year contract to deliver headsets, phones, cabling and trunking equipment for Nimans, the trade telecoms supplier established 15 years ago in Manchester.
Read MoreThe postal market will be opened up to increased competition on January 1 amid warnings that the move could damage the universal mail service.
Bulk mail above 4,000 items – which accounts for around half of the typical daily postbag of 82 million letters – will be open to Royal Mail’s competitors.
The Royal Mail said that coupled with a new directive from the European Union, almost 80% of the UK market will be open to competition in the New Year.
The entire postal market will be open to competition from April 2007 when restrictions on entering the market will be totally abolished.
Read MoreA Midland postal services company is tying a ribbon on its ten-year anniversary with a pounds 250,000 investment in new equipment.
Birmingham-based Central Mailing services says it hopes to add to the 30 staff it now employs providing mailing services for all market sectors from advertising agencies and publishers to professional bodies and blue chip corporate companies.
The company has doubled its turnover in the last three years and now has sales of more than pounds 2 million a year.
Read MorePostcomm Competition in postal services took a major step forward today when Postcomm awarded Hays the first long term licence to introduce additional mail services for businesses.
The licence, which will run for a minimum of seven years, will allow Hays DX to deliver business mail to any business address in the UK, with a range of innovative and unique service options.
Read MoreTwo businessmen who own the Scottish franchise of American postal company Mail Boxes Etc (MBE) are keen to acquire some of the sub-post offices that the loss-making Royal Mail wants to close.
Steve Simpson and Pepe Bascetta, who hold MBE’s master licence for Scotland and the north of England, believe they could keep many of the offices open by offering a wider range of services.
MBE is a specialist postal, communications and business services franchise, the world’s biggest non-food franchise.
It is a big player in the US, Canada and Italy but is barely known in the UK and Ireland where it has only 63 centres, including 10 in Scotland.
Simpson and Bascetta’s proposal could offer a lifeline to some of the 3000 sub-post offices targeted for closure across the UK. Royal Mail says it will close an undisclosed number of its 700 urban post offices in Scotland.
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