Individual haulage firms rarely have the necessary scale to saturate the UK with coverage—but pallet networks can mean fully comprehensive pick ups and deliveries, nationwide. As Steve McQueen reports, solid vehicle accountability is just one benefit to be had in this up-and-coming sector.
Read MoreExel’s rapidly growing expertise in servicing the specialist co-packing requirements of FMCG manufacturers has just received a further endorsement – this time from H J Heinz. The Company has recently appointed Exel to handle its co-packing operation for subsidiary John West Foods in Heinz’s own national distribution center (NDC) based in Wigan.
Read MoreCompanies will be able to buy postage over the internet under a pilot scheme unveiled by Royal Mail (RM) yesterday. According to RM, the new service will be available to “selected customers” in January and February next year, and will be extended in the autumn if it is successful. Gillian Wilmot, managing director of mail markets, said: “We want customers to have a choice about how they access our products and services in a way that best suits them.”
Read MoreNightspeed Services, an express parcel distribution company, is offering customers a new easy-to-use web based software system. Connector 3 and 4 are installed on to customers’ computers and are designed to speed up the despatch process by reducing addressing errors and providing a host of valuable and easy to use features to improve control of parcel shipments either via the web or electronic data interchange.
Read MoreAllan Leighton, chairman of Royal Mail Group, has written to all 659 members of Parliament, asking them to protest against the postal regulator’s plans for future funding. In his letter, the second he has sent to politicians in the past two months, Mr Leighton says the Postcomm proposals are “disastrous’ and will fatally undermine Royal Mail’s recovery plan. “I hope you won’t mind getting a second letter from me, but time is running out to change the regulator’s mind,” he writes. “He is likely to take key decisions in a matter of weeks which will have huge implications for the future of the UK’s postal service and the network of post office branches. I would, therefore, urge you to write to Postcomm to make your views known.”
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