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The UK Market for Courier Services Will Increase by 27% Between 2007 and 2011

Posted by | May 24, 2007 | |

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c57786) has announced the addition of Courier Services: UK to their offering.

In this new report, we analyse the UK market for courier services for a five year review period (2002-2006) and a five year forecast period up until 2011. The market is segmented into core sameday services, technical courier services, international courier services and home delivery service. The report also includes a PESTE and SWOT analysis in order to provide a complete picture of the market.

The UK market for courier services will increase by 27% between 2007 and 2011. Major sectors of the market will continue to remain saturated, however courier companies will continue to specialise in technical courier services and specialist home deliveries.

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World Mail Award winners celebrated

Posted by | May 24, 2007 | |

The 2007 World Mail Awards, presented on Monday night at a top London hotel, brought out the very best from postal services around the globe. More than 350 senior executives from the industry gathered to hear yachtsman, hero & adventurer, Pete Goss, present the coveted trophies for best practice and excellence.

This was the 8th year the Awards have been run by Triangle and they continue to grow in both prestige and breadth of coverage, with two new awards and four new sponsors for 2007. The distinguished panel of judges met only hours before the presentation to select the eventual winners of the awards from the 38 finalists.

The twelve winners competed against a broad geographical diversity of applicants and a wide variety of products and services submitted by operators and suppliers to the mail industry.

This year’s World Mail Award winners are as follows:

• Corporate Social Responsibility (sponsored by DHL Global Mail)
– Brazil Post for its Postal Bank project

• Customer Service (sponsored by Western Union)
– Canada Post Corporation for its Customer Value Management program

• e-Commerce (sponsored by Saudi Post)
– Deutsche Post AG for its ADDRESSDIALOG project

• Growth (sponsored by Q-Post)
– DHL Global Mail for its global letter-writing club LetterNet

• Industry Leadership (sponsored by Pitney Bowes)
– Jean-Paul Bailly, Chairman and CEO, La Poste

• Innovation (sponsored by Emirates Post)
– ampm for its delivery tracking solution eyeTrack

• People Management (sponsored by Australia Post)
– Masterlink Express for its ”Talents Maker” management academy training program

• Quality (sponsored by Magyar Posta)
– Singapore Post for SingPost Quality Excellence

• Retail Project (sponsored by Triangle)
– Aramex International for its SHOP&SHIP mailbox system

• Security (sponsored by Royal Mail)
– Royal Mail for its Mail Integrity Programme

• Technology (sponsored by Intermec)
– Denmark Post for its GIS route planning system

• Transformation (sponsored by IBM)
– Saudi Post for the creation of NAQEL

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Royal Mail fails to address database issue

Posted by | May 24, 2007 | |

The soap opera plotline concerning the “ownership” of postal addresses has taken another twist. According to leaked letters seen by the Guardian, the latest set of negotiations between government-owned agencies over payment for address data has broken down.

The saga provides a graphic example of an issue at the heart of Technology Guardian’s Free Our Data campaign – the bureaucracy and waste that ensue when state bodies treat vital data as an asset that must be made directly profitable.

The lifecycle of 23 Acacia Avenue – and every other postal address – begins with the local council, which is responsible for assigning a street name and number to new properties. Other government-owned agencies then draw on this information for their own purposes, including the creation of proprietary databases of addresses. If councils later want to use such databases, they must pay for the right – even if they provided the original data.

Arguments over the rights of one arm of the state to use another arm’s address database have soaked up much government time and money over the past five years. The current row is over a database of postcodes, the Postcode Address File, run by Royal Mail.

This is profitable, making GBP 1.58m on revenues of GBP 18.36m in 2005-06 (Royal Mail’s postcode database reveals its profitable side, April 26). Councils in England and Wales spend about GBP 2.5m a year on postcodes (paid to Ordnance Survey and commercial businesses, as well as Royal Mail).

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