Tag: UK

Secure boxes for home delivery or retail pick-up points

Posted by | Feb 16, 2002 | |

The single biggest factor holding back the e-commerce revolution, said the experts, was the inconvenience of having to stay at home to wait for deliveries.
So the new breed of e-fulfilment companies, allowing retailers to deliver goods whether or not customers are at home, should have been laughing all the way to the bank.
However, 18 months down the line, those who haven’t run out of cash concede it is taking somewhat longer than they thought to spread the e-fulfilment gospel.
Retailers agreeing to act as pick-up points for goods ordered over the net have seen at best a disappointing trickle of parcels going through their stores, and at worst, none at all.

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A setback for the forces of verbal barbarity: Consignia's chief spills the beans

Posted by | Feb 16, 2002 | |

We tend to get emotional about names. That is why I could be found jumping around my desk this morning saying “Thank you, thank you, Allan Leighton” for publicly acknowledging what most of the country has been saying for months: Consignia, the new name for the Post Office, is a disaster.

Since Mr Leighton is Consignia’s new chairman, his statement took some courage. I hope it marks a turning point in the power of the brand consultants, under whose baleful influence British company names have been changing into a jumble of the pretentious, meaningless or absurd.

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Can Royal Mail afford to strike?

Posted by | Feb 15, 2002 | |

Last week’s postal union ballot in favour of national strike action threatens to deal a body-blow to many in the direct marketing industry – not least of which will be the embattled Consignia, currently losing up to #1.5m a day.
Yet perhaps the most severely affected will be the financial services community, for whom the months of February and March are the most crucial.

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Strike threat to post monopoly

Posted by | Feb 15, 2002 | |

PATRICIA HEWITT, the Trade Secretary, signalled yesterday that she would allow the Royal Mail’s monopoly to be lifted in the event of a postal strike due early next month.
At Question Time Ms Hewitt urged the management of Consignia, the Royal Mail’s parent company, and the Communication Workers Union to reach a mediated settlement over their pay dispute.

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