Taking the UPS with the downs
Taking the UPS with the downs
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APC Overnight Announces Major GBP 3 Million Plus Investment In Rebranding And Unique IT Delivery Solution
APC Overnight Ltd, now the UK’s largest independent parcels carrier with 128 depots nationwide, has announced its largest ever GBP3 million investment initiative in a new rebranding programme and unique IT delivery solution.
The Essington-based company, which is on course to celebrate record annual turnover and profits, has invested GBP750,000 in an impactive new rebranding exercise. The modern design provides a new distinctive logo for the APC Overnight brand together with the strapline ‘a perfect choice’ on 1000 collection and delivery vehicles.
The new livery will also carry the words ‘Delivering your parcels on time’ and will be rolled out across the company’s 125 trunking vehicles which includes 25 double-deck trailers.
In addition to the investment in new livery, APC is has ordered eight new double deck vehicles in a further GBP250,000 investment.
APC has also announced that it will be investing a further GBP2 million on the signature capture solution utilising the Intermec CN3, the latest generation in rugged handheld devices. This will give APC a unique competitive edge in terms of data and signature capture delivery solutions.
Read MorePace of competition underlines challenges facing Royal Mail
Royal Mail today responded to Postcomm’s newly announced review of the 2006-2010 Price and Service Quality Control, saying:
• The UK mail market has fallen by 2% and is set to fall further.
• The drop in mail volumes compares with Postcomm’s predictions in setting the price control that the market would rise by between 1% and 2% annually.
• It is now increasingly likely that no other EU country will open its market to competition as Postcomm has done in the UK. This leaves our major rivals with protected home markets while at the same time they can enjoy a regulatory regime in the UK which is heavily tilted in their favour.
• Competition in the UK is developing at a much faster pace than originally predicted – Royal Mail’s competitors will handle around 2.5 billion letters this year, well ahead of expectations and equivalent to 25% of bulk business mail.
• That means that this year alone rivals are carrying around 600m more letters than had been anticipated when Postcomm set the price control, and although rivals require Royal Mail to deliver these letters over “the final mile” to homes and businesses, the price Royal Mail is allowed to charge for doing so doesn’t cover our costs.
• Royal Mail cannot compete fairly for business mail because the price control dictates that when we offer to lower our prices we have to reduce the amount we charge rivals to use our network by the same degree.
• As quality of service has improved across all our products and services our business customers are choosing to use Second Class and other cheaper services instead of First Class, reducing Royal Mail’s revenues.
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