Tag: UK

Interview with David Mills, CEO Post Office Ltd

Posted by | May 26, 2002 | |

David Mills has been in position as chief executive of Post Office Ltd, which controls the 16,000-strong branch network, for only a month after a 40-year career in banking. But in his own view he is anything but a City boy parachuted into a public organisation: “I am just a seasoned, professional manager.”

The challenge before him is immense. Putting aside the huge difficulties that face the larger Consignia group (of which Mills is now a board director), the Post Office’s branch network is in crisis. Though it might not be losing the estimated £1.5million a day haemorrhaging out of Parcelforce, Post Office Ltd’s last available figures show that in the financial year 2000/2001, the organisation lost £53million.

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Watchdog may delay opening up postal market

Posted by | May 25, 2002 | |

Ministers are confident the postal regulator will water down plans to open the market to competition when it reveals its plans next week.
Postcomm has faced criticism of the speed of its plans, which would open the UK market to competition ahead of Europe. Patricia Hewitt, trade and industry secretary, is privately confident that it will slow the introduction of competition.
In a letter to Postcomm, Ms Hewitt pressed the commissioners to “consider very carefully as to the size and timing of market opening”. She wants Postcomm to minimise the risk that Consignia cannot finance its activities.

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Dairies seek mail licence

Posted by | May 25, 2002 | |

Express Dairies has applied for a licence to deliver letters and parcels with the morning milk.
If Postcomm, the regulator, grants the application, the company will be given a 12-month licence to carry up to 4.6m items a year.

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Postcomm consults on licence modifications for Hays and TNT

Posted by | May 24, 2002 | |

On 24 May Postcomm began consultation on applications from Hays Commercial Services and TNT UK Ltd for modifications to their interim postal licences. The companies wish to be able to carry out a wider range of activities for their existing business customers in the event of industrial action by Royal Mail workers or an emergency or a natural disaster.

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Nissan win for Richard Lawson

Posted by | May 24, 2002 | |

Nissan Distribution Service has chosen Richard Lawson Autologistics to transport its new generation Primastar and Interstar commercial vans throughout the UK. Deliveries have begun of the Interstar model from the NDS Sunderland site direct to dealerships.

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