Tag: UK

Blair deals blow to post offices

Posted by | Oct 19, 2006 | |

Tony Blair has ruled out providing further subsidies for post offices despite receiving a massive petition from campaigners.
However, the PM has pledged to “consider all options” in response to calls for greater protection for the network. John Peberdy, from Loughborough, the chairman of the National Federation of Sub-postmasters, presented Mr Blair with a petition signed by four million people, including 330,000 from Leicestershire.
Campaigners say the move to pay pensions and benefits directly into bank accounts instead of through the Post Office card account will devastate post offices, especially rural branches. They are calling for the plan to be scrapped.
The Government says the 800 smallest post offices are used by an average of 16 people a week and the rural network is supported by an annual subsidy of GBP150 million.

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Direct Marketing – Unwanted nuisance or useful service?

Posted by | Oct 19, 2006 | |

As Royal Mail lifts the cap, Philip Chadwick finds out if we will be flooded with wasteful junk.

Judging by the current barrage of negative press, the direct mail industry should be feeling more beleaguered than England football coach Steve McLaren.

And just when it thought things couldn’t get any worse, last Monday the Local Government Association (LGA) waded into the furore, which began when Royal Mail announced plans to scrap the cap on unaddressed mail (PrintWeek, 3 August). Reports suggest that the LGA’s chair, Lord Bruce-Lockhart, had written to the Royal Mail arguing that such a move could leave council tax payers facing larger bills.

The LGA indicated it had ‘grave concerns’ about the plans, which would cause ‘unnecessary rubbish’. It claims 78,000 tonnes of ‘junk mail’ reach landfill sites each year and the cost of disposing waste has risen in the past year by pounds 205m.

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Coast Capital Partners With London Drugs Subsidiary, Total Delivery Systems and Others to Deliver

Posted by | Oct 18, 2006 | |

Coast Capital Savings has inked a partnership with Total Delivery Systems and London Drugs subsidiary TLD Information Technology Specialists to provide value-added services to its business customers.

The program, dubbed “Big Perks for Small Business(TM)”, is the first cross-industry partnership between a Canadian financial institution and major service providers and will provide the credit union’s business customers with benefits, including a discount of 20 per cent on same-day courier services.

“In addition to simplifying the financial lives of small business owners through our banking products and services, we want to help them save time and money in three key areas: courier service, printing and copying and computer technical support,” said Lloyd Craig, President and CEO, Coast Capital Savings.

The program’s perks include discounts on small business IT service packages from TLD and a free initial service call. It also gives Coast Capital Savings’ business customers discounts of 20 per cent off same-day delivery services from local courier Total Delivery Systems. Big Perks for Small Business also offers customers discounts on national and international courier services. “Our goal is not necessarily to make small businesses bigger, but to help make them better.

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PalletFORCE reputation brings E.M. Rogers to network

Posted by | Oct 18, 2006 | |

Northampton-based transport company E.M. Rogers has joined the PalletFORCE palletised distribution network in order to enhance the range of services it can offer to its customers.

E.M. Rogers has not been involved with a network before, as its primary focus is in international haulage. The decision to join PalletFORCE was made after the company decided to diversify and extend its UK operation.

PalletFORCE came highly recommended, as Ed Rogers explains. “As part of the Transport Association, we asked fellow members who are part of PalletFORCE what they thought of the Network. The overriding feeling was that PalletFORCE has revolutionised the way they do business, and has really helped them to develop.”

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Momentum grows for major postal operators backing EU liberalisation plan

Posted by | Oct 17, 2006 | |

On the eve of the debate over postal opening, Deutsche Post (Germany), Posten AB (Sweden), Suomen Posti Oyj (Finland), TNT (The Netherlands) and Royal Mail (UK) are joined by Charlie McCreevy, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, Jürgen R. Thumann, President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), and Paul R. Kleindorfer, Professor at INSEAD and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

In this joint event taking place in Brussels today, the group intends to demonstrate that full market opening must take place in 2009 to allow postal operators to benefit from changes that are shaking the global communications market. It must be seen as an opportunity to restructure organisations for increased operational, service efficiency and customer-orientation. Furthermore, a modern and flexible universal service to the benefit of residential and small business users can be maintained in an open market.

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