TNT is providing a further jobs boost to the North East with news of an additional 40 vacancies at the company’s recently opened GB4.5 million national customer contact centre at Team Valley near Gateshead. TNT Express Services moved into the new facility at Maingate House at the back end of last year and now expect to have a full complement of 240 employees by the end of 2006.
Read MorePostcomm today confirmed a financial penalty of GBP271,000 on Royal Mail. The penalty follows Royal Mail’s contravention of its licence in 2004-05 in relation to poor performance in the following London postcode areas: SE (intra and posted), E (intra) and WC (posted). The penalty is due to be paid on 14 June. Before confirming the penalty, Postcomm took account of representations from Royal Mail and other parties.
Read MoreDHL logistics boss John Allan is learning German, but he relied on old Scottish to sum up the E 220m (USD271m) of savings his team will extract from the billion euro turnover business by spring 2007: ‘Many a mickle makes a muckle’ or every little bit helps. Mr Allan stresses that his three hours a week battle with German grammar is fulfilling a lifelong desire, and is not a Deutsche Post head office edict from the parent company in Cologne: ‘Deutsche Post is an international company and the working language is English. It is a case of wanting to learn German, rather than needing to.’ It was in September last year when Germany’s letters to logistics kraken Deutsche Post confirmed the City rumour-mill by offering GBP3.7bn (USD6.7bn) to acquire UK-based supply chain and forwarding giant Exel, with the latter’s chief executive chosen to head the new division and to lead the integration. ‘I was asked to stay on,’ says Mr Allan, who states that his presence gives ‘continuity’ to the integration process, just as it did when his Ocean Group merged with the ‘old’ Exel in 2000 to create what was then the largest UK-headquartered global logistics player.
Read MoreBusiness Post Group PLC has begun using rail to move parcels from the English Midlands to Scotland. Rail freight carrier English, Welsh & Scottish Railway said in a statement that Business Post had begun an eight-week trial of its services to send parcels from Walsall in the West Midlands to Aberdeen every night. EWS said the parcel carrier is cutting costs by using trains as buying rail capacity on its services is cheaper than using lorries and avoids road congestion. The rail freight firm said it already has a contract with Business Post’s rival DHL.
Read MoreAlan Cook, the newly appointed boss of the Post Office, has been touring Britain meeting the nation’s sub- postmasters and mistresses. In Wilstone, Hertfordshire, almost the entire 320-strong village population turned out to meet Cook, who joined the Post Office seven weeks ago. “They knew we were coming,” he said. If the former “man from the Pru” had any doubts about the importance of his new job, the reception from the Wilstone villagers left him with no doubts. Cook is the man charged with securing the future for the country’s 14,500 post offices. It is a tough task: not only is the network losing about Pounds 100m a year, but its position as the government’s cashier -doling out cash to pensioners, mothers and the unemployed -is being eroded as benefits are paid directly into bank accounts. If Cook is to save the nation’s post offices, he has to find a new role for all the sub-postmasters and mistresses across the country.
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