Tag: UK

Postcomm ponders Consignia controls

Posted by | Oct 4, 2001 | |

HE BRITISH POSTAL REGULATOR, Postcomm is considering imposing new service stan-dards and price controls on Consignia.
This coincides with the pub-lishing of Postcomm’s first annual report
Postconun chainnan Gra-ham Corbett says: “Our first year has been about laying foundations, licensing Con-signia, understanding the structure of the market, and above all listening to users, operators, the workforce and to the many organisations which responded to our consultation documents.”

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Concern over delays in the setting up of Post-Office-Based Bank

Posted by | Oct 3, 2001 | |

THE Government has denied it is considering scrapping the Universal Bank, which is at the heart of its plans to save village post offices.

The Department of Trade and Industry categorically denied reports that the future of the new post office-based bank was in doubt.

But Consignia, as the Post Office is now called, is increasingly concerned about a delay in drawing up a detailed blueprint for the Universal Bank.

It is due to come into operation in April 2003 but bosses are worried they will not have enough time to develop the complex computer technology which will be needed.

There is believed to be a dispute within Government departments about how many people will be able to open new basic accounts at post offices.

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Exel and E-commerce

Posted by | Oct 3, 2001 | |

A service to help retailers, e-tail-ers and manufacturers open up new distribution channels by pro-viding the often-missing piece of the e-commerce equation: timely and cost-efficient fulfilment and home delivery has been launched by Exel.

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