Isle of Man Post has appointed a new chief executive following the retirement of Bill Collister.
Bill Chacksfield, 58, is joining the firm from The Business Post Group in the UK where he headed up its home delivery operation.
Read MoreRoyal Mail is planning a pre-emptive strike to prevent competitors from cherry-picking major business clients, by bringing in a pricing structure that offers major discounts for city deliveries.
Called ‘zonal pricing’, the scheme will charge various rates according to the destination, and is to affect all mail sent through Mailsort 3 – the most popular service for direct mail. It will include magazine- delivery scheme Presstream.
Read MoreRoyal Mail’s major offensive to build awareness of pricing in proportion – including what is claimed to be the biggest door-drop push in UK history – is coming under fire for both its scale and timing
When Royal Mail revealed it was planning a campaign to support the introduction of pricing in proportion (PIP), it not only boasted that the push would reach every adult in the UK, but that it would be one of the biggest campaigns in the organisation’s 350-year history (PM November 11).
In theory, it would ensure that, as the pricing of mail changes on August 21 to include the size as well as weight, this is common knowledge for consumers and businesses alike. But, despite the campaign lasting over a month and consisting of many different elements, there are concerns that it will not be enough to make the change go through smoothly.
Read MoreResearch and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c39469) has announced the addition of “UK Home Delivery & Fulfilment 2006” to their offering.
“UK Home Delivery & Fulfilment 2006” provides a thorough analysis of the home delivery market – products ordered online, by phone, in store and by catalogue and delivered to the customer’s home or place or work. It includes full analysis of a survey of 2,000 consumers, exploring their motivations for using home delivery and their expectations of home delivery services.
Read MoreThe Royal Mail’s General Logistics Systems is creating its own air express delivery service, Rico Back, the head of GLS, told Handelsblatt.
Back said the company will invest 10 mln eur in GLS Air this year and that its two aircraft will fly between the company’s delivery centres in Germany and the UK from October.
Ultimately, GLS Air wants to have a fleet of 25 aircraft that will fly to 17 European nations, he added. GLS is the continental European counterpart to Royal Mail’s UK-based Parcelforce Worldwide. It is based in the Netherlands and has 14,500 staff.
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