Tag: UK

A new substantial customer for Business Post

Posted by | Aug 27, 2002 | |

Business Post Group PLC, one of the UK’s leading express delivery companies, announces that its Express business has reached agreement to act as sole carrier for Systemax Europe Limited with immediate effect.
Systemax, which trades in the UK as Globaldirect, Misco and Simply Computers, is a supplier of computer hardware, software and peripherals. The distribution warehouse for Systemax is based in Greenock, Scotland. The account, which is estimated to have an annual value of over £3.5 million, will be handled by Business Post’s Glasgow depot.

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Security fears on pinta post mail `left on open view'

Posted by | Aug 27, 2002 | |

Milkmen delivering mail in Liverpool could be wide open to theft, a detective has warned. Express Dairies is piloting a “pints and parcels” project in the city. The dairy insists the mail is kept in a secure locker. But one worried policeman says he saw mail left on open view.

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Publishers hit back at Royal Mail pricing plan

Posted by | Aug 22, 2002 | |

Magazine publishers are threatening to withdraw business from Royal Mail if the postal operator proceeds with plans to charge publishers according to the physical size of their titles. The Periodical Publishers’ Association’s postal committee has called an emergency committee meeting to consider alternative distribution methods, amid fears that the planned postal pricing regime could impose punitive costs on magazine owners.

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Campaign to save post offices hots up

Posted by | Aug 21, 2002 | |

A third of all post offices in Birmingham could close as part of a national cost-cutting drive, it was claimed yesterday.

According to the the Liberal Democrats, Birmingham will be one of the hardest hit areas as the Post Office struggles to curb mounting losses.

Eleven of the 32 branches in Ladywood face closure, with seven under threat in Small Heath and Sparkbrook and five heading for closure in Hall Green, they claimed.

In other areas of the city they have already begun a campaign to save up to 16 Birmingham subpost offices from closure with petition forms delivered to 30,000 homes.

Lib Dems, backed by their Euro MP Liz Lynne, are circulating the Hands Off Our Post petition to households in Perry Barr, Great Barr and Kingstanding.

They fear that plans to close 3,500 of Britain’s 8,000 urban post offices will leave many, particularly the elderly and less well-off, without easy access to vital services.

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Calls to halt Post Office closure plans

Posted by | Aug 21, 2002 | |

The Government was today urged to step in over “potentially devastating” plans to close 3,000 urban post offices.
Welsh Assembly minister Jenny Randerson said proposals to close four urban post offices every working day for the next three years would have a terrible impact on hundreds of communities.
But the Liberal Democrat Welsh culture minister said the Government was “oblivious” to their needs.
“The Post Office network forms the hub of the local community – in some areas they are the only remaining retail outlet and must be protected,” she said.
“Many constituencies may lose five or more branches, yet the UK New Labour Government remains strangely silent, despite being the principal shareholder of the Post Office, and is oblivious to the needs and wishes of its stakeholders.
“These figures clearly show the potentially devastating impact that the closure programme could have on local communities.”

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