“No realistic profits” says Home Lane
The home-delivery market is far too cost-driven to enable companies to make realistic profits, according to Home Lane, the home delivery arm of the Lane Group.
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Exel Renew Contract
Exel has been awarded a renewed contract by telecom equipment distributor Doro UK. It will continue to be managed by Exels Worcester centre.
Read MoreItalian job for Palletways
Palletways has launched a new national network in Italy, the start of its development strategy to create the first pan-European express palletised freight network.
Read MoreVillage hall is repackaged as Post Office
A VILLAGE hall in the Westcountry has been transformed into a local post office following the closure of the vital service nine months ago.
Porkellis Post Office in Helston has been closed since last August and like many rural post offices it struggled to find suitable premises to begin operating from again.
Porkellis village hall committee worked together with a Rural Transfer Adviser from Consignia over the last eight months to organise the relocation of the post office.
It will now be run as a satellite service from the village hall three mornings a week by sub-postmaster Jeff Hobden, who currently runs the nearby Rame Cross post office.
Consignia rival's reform alert
ONE OF Consignia’s main rivals has urged a slowdown in postal liberalisation, saying that Consignia is too weak for full competition before the rest of Europe and that competitors will not be big enough to pick up the pieces when it struggles.
TPG, which operates the Dutch post office and which has held merger talks with Consignia, has asked the postal regulator to delay the opening of the full market to competition and to change the way liberalisation is phased in.
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