The number of first class letters delivered the next day has improved to more than nine out of 10, but postal group Consignia is still not meeting targets set by the industry’s regulator, new figures showed today.
Read MoreDeutsche Post will be allowed to set its own prices when it breaks into the UK business post market, posing an aggressive threat to Consignia’s fading monopoly.
The regulator is set to grant a one-year interim licence that allows Deutsche Post to collect pre-sorted and some unsorted mail from customers in the UK. The group will use rival company Consignia’s network to deliver about 90 per cent of the mail, while the rest will go through its subcontracted delivery services.
Deutsche Post and Consignia will have to agree a fair price between them, says Postcomm. “Deutsche Post must decide what to do,” says a Postcomm spokesman. When asked if there was the potential for Deutsche Post to undercut Consignia on discounts or pricing for bulk mail, he says: “I imagine they will have something to offer but it is up to them.”
Royal Mail came under fire from the postal watchdog yesterday, after it emerged that almost two-thirds of its services were performing less well than at the end of last year – including first class mail delivery.
The postal operator insisted that between April and June, 91.3 per cent of first-class letters had arrived the day after posting, against 86.5 per cent for the same period last year. Second-class mail deliveries, meanwhile, had beaten delivery targets.
But Postwatch said the figures showed that in a year at least 390m first-class letters would not arrive the next day. The watchdog added that Royal Mail’s results for 10 out of 16 postal services were worse now than at the end of last year.
West midlands based Hammond Logistics has won a new contract to run the UK transport operation of Amari Plastics.
Read MoreRichard Martin, formerly head of Christian Salvesens industrial division will start a new job in September as md of a new palletised freight business to be launched by Business Post.
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