Home Delivery Market – Despatch Manager
Home Delivery Market – Despatch Manager
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UPN strengthens the board and announces four new depots
UPN has announced the opening of four new UK depots, together with the appointment of Glenn Boldy as Network Service Director, following increased market demand after the launch of its real-time IT system.
Since UPN was launched six years ago, it has focused hard on delivering quality, confident in the knowledge that this would ensure it could build a quality network and help it to attract the highest quality staff.
Glenn’s role will involve him working closely with all UPN depots in the UK, to ensure that they continually improve service levels and efficiency. He has been working closely with UPN over recent months to help it roll out its new real-time XDA based signature capture system. This allows customers to be able to view an electronic signature on the central UPN website within seconds of delivery, wherever the pallet is being sent in the UK.
The solution was developed in-house by UPN, working with development tools from Microsoft, utilizing the latest .NET framework and standard XDAs.
Read MorePalletways: Capital Growth
Palletways London, which was created by the Palletways Group two years ago to provide a hub facility for depots in the capital and the South East, is expanding its operations on the back of significant growth in the business.
Palletways London, which is based at a 40,000 sq ft hub facility in Greenford, has appointed Martyn Young as its new general manager. Previously with TNT, he will be responsible for the expansion program, which will see the Palletways London hub operation extend to the South West and comprise some 30 depots. Originally the hub serviced 16 depots in the South East, from Colchester to Southampton.
Young’s appointment comes as Palletways London is experiencing significant growth – in the last three months alone the number of pallets of goods handled by the hub each day has more than doubled.
Palletways London is investing in its IT systems to enhance the service to customers and the 30 Palletways depots across the south of the country that now take their customer collections to the hub for onward delivery across the region.
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Read MoreStatement – Update on further strike action by the Communication Workers Union
Royal Mail said that more than 80 pct of its people were working normally last Tuesday 31st with only a very small backlog of mail, despite strike action called by the Communication Workers Union. Out of a daily mailbag of around 82 million letters, only 1.4 million were delayed by the strike. The company remains fully operational despite the rolling strike action called by the union.
Strike action does not change Royal Mail’s absolute need to modernize, as all our major rivals have already done, if we are to be able to compete successfully in an increasingly challenging marketplace and continue to provide great customer service into the future.
Royal Mail remains ready to meet the union leadership yet again at any time to explain our position and the reality of the open marketplace in which we now operate.
The union’s stated position that it wants to cause the maximum disruption to Royal Mail, and therefore its customers, is completely at odds with its public stance of supporting the postal service.
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