Tag: UK

Retailers set to overhaul delivery options to maintain home shopping growth

Posted by | Oct 25, 2001 | |

Retailers in the UK are planning a major overhaul of their delivery strategies to ensure the home shopping boom continues, according to a survey released today by Consignia. The survey of 100 companies, which includes some of the UK’s largest home shopping retailers, revealed that 70% regard reliable delivery as the most important influence on the future growth of the market and delivery at a time and place convenient to the consumer was ranked as the second most important factor by 58% of respondents. Unsurprisingly, one of the most popular options for driving future growth in home shopping was time-window deliveries. This was seen as the most likely ‘last mile’ delivery service to fuel future growth by 67 per cent of those surveyed. For retailers operating on-line, the figure was 71 per cent.

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Consultation on modification to postal licence exceptions

Posted by | Oct 25, 2001 | |

On 25 October, Postcomm announced that it was considering postal licence exceptions that would simplify regulation in the distribution of share dealing information and give more flexibility in the distribution of election material. A consultation document examines the possibility of excepting letter post from licensing requirements for three specific services:
1. mail arising as part of the settlement system operated by CRESTCo for the UK, Irish and international securities
2. conveyance of poll cards for elections
3. conveyance of other material for Parliamentary and Assembly elections

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Royal Mail are sticking £1m in stamps

Posted by | Oct 25, 2001 | |

MAIL chiefs are jumping on the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? bandwagon with a megabucks Christmas promotion.

And it’s guaranteed to make the festive season first class for 36 customers.

The Royal Mail has hidden game cards in books of 12 and 24 first class stamps.

One will reveal the illustration of a diamond stamp worth pounds 1million.

Another 10 will contain ruby stamps worth pounds 25,000 each and 25 sapphire stamps worth pounds 10,000 each.

And bosses stress the odds of winning are better than the National Lottery.

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UK Christmas mail volumes

Posted by | Oct 24, 2001 | |

Mail volumes typically rise from about 80m items a day to 140m during the Christmas period, but much of the extra volume has gone second-class. Total volume has also stuck at about 3bn for the last couple of years.

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Mail checks will show true losses and delays

Posted by | Oct 23, 2001 | |

According to the Daily Telegraph (U.K.), “independent
auditors have been appointed to supervise surveys of late postal deliveries
and losses of mail. Quarterly performance figures produced by Consignia, the
company that owns the Post Office, Royal Mail and Parcelforce, will no
longer be based simply on the number of first-class items delivered the next
day but on the delivery of all mail. Deloitte & Touche, the London-based
chartered accountants, have been given a three-year contract to monitor the
surveys after complaints from Postwatch, the industry’s watchdog, that
existing research is too limited and not independent. Mail losses are known
to run into millions of letters and cards each week.”

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