FDB Distribution & Simpson Brothers win contract with Star Litho
Star Litho has signed a logistics contract worth £500,000 ( t800,000) a year with FDB Distribution and Simpson Brothers.
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Consignia halts more mail trains in punctuality drive
CONSIGNIA has dropped three nightly mail trains which pass through the disrupted West Coast Mainline between Glasgow and London because they were failing to arrive on time. The mail will travel by road or air instead.
Two of the trains stopped running last Friday, joining the one terminated in December.
Effects of rivalry on The Post Office
From Mr Ian Senior Sir, The Postal Services Commission is right to open up part of the letter business to competiton immediately and to fully liberalise the market by 2006 (report, Business, January 31). Consignia is crying wolf in saying that it faces “death by a thousand cuts”.
Read MorePromoting effective competition in UK Postal Services
Promoting effective competition in UK Postal Services
Read MoreGermans target Royal Mail
The German post office is likely to apply for a licence to collect business mail in the UK following the publication of plans to open the market to competition.
Deutsche Post is the largest in a group of postal and distribution companies thought to be queueing to enter previously closed parts of the UK market now that the regulator, Postcomm, is to end the postal delivery monopoly held by Consignia, formerly the Post Office.
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