Royal Mail is advising customers that new prices for international postcards, letters, small packets and printed papers to destinations outside Europe come into effect on July 4th 2002.
The overall increase in prices is 4.8 which is within the Retail Price Index limits allowable under the terms of the operating licence issued to Consignia, Royal Mail’s holding company, by Postcomm.
Consignia said the redundancy package it is offering the thousands of employees it will lay off over the next three years is “fair” although it has yet to get an official reply from the postal union.
“We’re committed to consulting with the union on the way we handle surplus staff. We’ve put forward a fair package and we look forward to the union’s response,” a Consignia spokeswoman said.
TNT Network Logistics has won a three year contract from HarperCollins for which it has designed an internet-based system to increase control and visibility in the book supply chain.
David Bermingham, managing director of TNT Network Logistics, said: “The internet-based system is an extension of HarperCollins’ current internal IT system. Right now we can handle all of the electronic visibility with the outbound operation. In terms of the inbound operation, we collect from the printer, consolidate and deliver into HarperCollins’ warehouse
Read MoreThe Gluttonous Gardener, an e-tailer specialising in plant gifts, has appointed Beck & Call to handle all its home deliveries of plants in the London area.
Read Morehow do you send your goods back to an Internet company if they don’t fit or won’t work? That’s the question that has exercised almost every home shopper at one time or another; and if it troubles them, it troubles the e-tailers just as much. Pioneers soon realised they risked losing face, and business, if they didn’t get their returns policy right. Far from all of them have grasped this nettle adequately so far; but at least most of them seem now to have recognised the need to do so.
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