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Distribution company celebrates first anniversary in Bristol

Posted by | Jul 13, 2007 | |

Local distribution company John T Evans Haulage Ltd is celebrating its first anniversary in Bristol since it opened a new GBP 1m (25,000 sq) warehouse facility in Avonmouth last year.

The 25-year old company is a member of Palletways, Europe’s leading palletized freight network. John T Evans opened its Bristol operation last May with 18 employees and has since grown to over 25 members of staff with a fleet of 14 vehicles. Its location in Bristol is an important part of the company’s business development plans to increase its current turnover of GBP 6m to some GBP 10m over the next three years.

As one of the largest members in the Palletways network, John T Evans manages over 250 incoming pallets a day and delivers 150 outgoing pallets for over 50 customers in Bristol and the surrounding areas. Through the Palletways network, the company offers its customers next day and economy distribution services for one to six pallet consignments across the UK & Ireland, as well as to mainland Europe, including the Benelux countries, Denmark, Germany and France.

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Dunne: Royal Mail pricing proposals set to hit rural areas the hardest

Posted by | Jul 12, 2007 | |

Philip Dunne, MP for Ludlow, today criticized Royal Mail’s plans to charge large postal customers higher prices for delivering bulk mail in rural areas.

It has been calculated that 80 pct of households and 90 pct of postcode sectors in the Ludlow constituency are in the area Royal Mail considers the most rural. These areas will attract the biggest surcharges.

Royal Mail’s proposals are to increase prices by over 10.2 pct for bulk mail deliveries in rural areas while prices in urban areas rise by only pct%.

The rural surcharge proposals for large mailings raise damaging implications for rural postal services and rural communities:

– Mail volumes going to rural areas will decrease and the unit costs of deliveries will increase;
– This in turn will put pressure on Royal Mail to reduce services in rural areas in the future;
– Rural post offices involved with mail delivery will see a declining volume of mail handled placing them in even greater jeopardy and;
– Significant additional costs will be placed on rural business and organizations.

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Royal Mail criticized over pricing

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

The Royal Mail has faced criticism from the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) after their Pricing in Proportion initiative is shown to raise costs for small businesses.

60 pct of businesses participating in a survey conducted by the BCC stated that their postage costs had risen because of the change in pricing. Only 16 pct felt that Pricing in Proportion (PiP) had simplified the system, and fewer than 1 pct believe that it is an improvement on the previous pricing scheme.

The PiP system was designed to be a revenue neutral exercise for the Royal Mail, basing costs on the size of mail as opposed to weight, reflecting the expense of handling larger pieces of mail. The survey indicates that PiP has failed to simplify the system for customers, and has even raised postage costs for some.

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TNT uses strikes to put pressure on Royal Mail

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

TNT said the wave of industrial action hitting Royal Mail underlined the need for it to develop a full-blown rival service.

The Dutch-owned company, which uses Royal Mail to provide “final mile” postal delivery, said its customers were suffering disruption from the action by the union but it would not be suing the Post Office because it accepted that the state-owned group was protected by “force majored” contractual clauses.

TNT is the only company known to have been developing concrete plans to launch a complete rival service including the use of its own postal delivery staff. Its British boss, Nick Wells, said the impetus to proceed with such a project was higher than ever.
TNT has been undertaking full-scale trials of next day door-to-door deliveries in Glasgow and Manchester although the vast bulk of its daily mail is distributed to homes through Royal Mail under the specially licensed “final mile” system used by several private operators.

TNT’s group chief executive, Peter Bakker, said recently that Britain was one of its most important markets, showing healthy growth. The company is distributing more than 1 billion items of mail a year in the UK and many customers have migrated from Royal Mail, including telecoms group BT, which recently signed a contract worth up to £ 90m.

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