Tag: UK

Letter bomb in London wounds one

Posted by | Feb 5, 2007 | |

A letter bomb exploded Monday in the mailroom of a London company that administers the capital’s traffic congestion charge, slightly wounding a female worker, the police said.
The padded envelope exploded at an office belonging to Capita Group, which administers the £8, or USD16, daily fee meant to cut down on traffic in central London. The company also collects television licensing fees and developed the database for the Criminal Records Bureau, combining data from 43 British police departments, and has significant contracts with the government.
“We can confirm that there has been a small explosion at our Victoria Street office this morning,” said a Capita spokeswoman, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with company policy.
Scotland Yard said the wounded woman was an employee of Capita.
Capita was formed in 1984 and has more than 26,000 employees in the Britain, the Channel Islands, Ireland and India.

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Citipost launch new Downstream Access Unsorted Packet Service

Posted by | Feb 5, 2007 | |

Citipost DSA Ltd, a leading player in the UK Downstream Access market, has officially launched its Unsorted Packet service for organisations sending packets up to 1kg, across the UK. The company state the new service will offer businesses a cost effective, reliable and easy to use packet solution saving time, money and hassle.

A number of benefits listed include flexible collection times, a two to three day delivery service, complete service and management reporting,all set up in only two weeks for businesses that regularly send over 1,000 unsorted packet items on a daily, weekly, monthly or ad hoc basis. Citipost DSA collects the packets from clients, process these on-site, fully supported by leading technology and processes and ensure delivery into Royal Mail for the final mile delivery.

Steve Hibbert, CEO of Citipost DSA, says, “Our Unsorted Packet service is an exciting development for Citipost DSA in terms of expanding our client reach and company network. We listen to our clients and continually provide new, innovative services that deliver to make sure we help customers extend their reach and reduce costs. We’ve already secured a number of key clients who are already benefiting from substantial cost savings.”

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Motor Transport – Fastest growing Top 100

Posted by | Feb 5, 2007 | |

This year’s Top 100/Fastest Growing list shows just how much the industry has changed in the past year. New names dominate the first four positions. Exel was purchased by the German post office and has become DHL Logistics. Kuehne + Nagel now occupies the third position after it bought ACR Logistics. It was previously 9th in our listing. ACR itself was formerly Hays Distribution. And even more remarkable is the rapid rise of UPS in the UK in the number four slot, up from 6th after the purchase of Lynx Express. TNT Logistics is in 5th place, up from 7th and was purchased by venture capitalist Apollo Management.

There are just so many changes. Fast growing Innovate first purchased Grampian Country Foods and has now snapped up Corby Chilled. The assets of MacFarlane were purchased by Stephen Cooke who formed MacFarlane Transport Holdings. There was a management buy-out at NFT Distribibution, and Feige Merlin became Harrier and is now no more. United Freight Distribution purchased part of Sandy Bruce Trucking in August.

Add to that Wincanton snapping up the Lane Group and RDL and 2006 comes to an end showing considerable change. The long expected consolidation of the industry is now taking place. The big companies are getting bigger but smaller companies are also successful. Companies that have come through the years of steady increases in fuel prices and have survived are now well placed. To be successful you have to pass the cost increases on to customers. And the successful companies have succeeded in doing just that.

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UK Post offices offered cash to close down

Posted by | Feb 4, 2007 | |

Post offices have been offered GBP60,000 to close down as part of Royal Mail’s concerted bid to close thousands of branches, it has emerged.
The government is expected to give the green light to the closure of 2,500 post offices when the consultation is completed in March.
And subpostmasters are expected to receive similar “compensation” to the last round of closures – an average of GBP60,000 each.
Bournemouth Borough Council is trying to set up a rare joining of forces with the councils of Poole and Christchurch to petition the government en masse.
Cllr Emily Morrell-Cross said: “Out of 14,000 branches nationwide, we are told only 4,000 are viable. So this round of closures is just the beginning. We need to act now.
A spokesman for Royal Mail said: “The network is currently losing GBP4 million – that is the big issue.”

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