Tag: UK

Catalogue firms join forces for new trade body

Posted by | Nov 8, 2002 | |

Over 100 catalogue owners are forming their own trade association in an attempt to improve standards of training and support within the catalogue industry. The new body, called the Catalogue Exchange, may also be used to challenge the DMA (UK) on the issue of size-based pricing. Although negatively received by the majority of the direct marketing industry, Royal Mail’s new pricing proposals are set to improve the lot of niche cataloguers by reducing their costs.

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An Post defends staff sorting mail at home

Posted by | Nov 8, 2002 | |

An Post has rejected criticism of its decision, which comes into effect today, to allow postal workers sort mail at their homes in order to circumvent a dispute with the Irish Postmasters’ Union (IPU).

A spokesman for the company described as “ludicrous” suggestions that the move had legal or security implications. “The inference is that post workers are somehow less responsible, or can’t be trusted with mail in their homes. That’s nonsense.

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Royal Mail`could halt underground railway'

Posted by | Nov 8, 2002 | |

The Royal Mail is considering mothballing a “unique” 75-year-old underground railway network to save costs, it was announced today.

The Mail Rail service, which runs from Paddington in west London to Whitechapel in east London, used to serve nine stations but now delivers post to only four.

Union officials were told today that the future of the system was being considered, with a clear hint that it could be closed.

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Sorting offices shut in post pay row

Posted by | Nov 8, 2002 | |

More than 500 Irish sub-post offices are to close their sorting offices today as part of an ongoing dispute over pay.

The action will signal the start of a new phase in the dispute, with the offices set to close for two days a week.

Postal company An Poste plans to allow some postal workers to sort mail in their homes in a bid to prevent disruption.

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Postcomm Determination Progressing

Posted by | Nov 8, 2002 | |

Business Post announces that its subsidiary, UK Mail Ltd, has received from the Postal Services Commission (“Postcomm”), the independent postal industry regulator, Postcomm’s confidential draft proposal for the trading terms whereunder Royal Mail Group plc would provide access to its facilities for downstream sorting and delivery for UK Mail’s proposed business mail service in the UK.

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