Tag: UK

Company bosses to meet mail chiefs over 'late post' damage to business

Posted by | Apr 22, 2006 | |

Business owners in central Edinburgh are to meet postal chiefs over a series of late mail deliveries they claim are hampering their companies. The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce has arranged a meeting between representatives of the postal service and its members, many of whom have been receiving mail up to 1.5 hours late for more than a fortnight. The Royal Mail has confirmed that businesses in EH2 and EH4 – which includes Princes Street and large portions of the New Town – have been receiving mail as late as 11am due to a reorganisation of shifts at an Edinburgh sorting office. While the Royal Mail guarantees all deliveries by noon, it makes a special commitment to deliver post to “recognised business areas” by 9:30 am. Businesses say that early delivery time is crucial in maintaining competitiveness in a fast-moving marketplace.
The meeting comes after repeated criticism of Edinburgh’s postal service and in the wake of a report by consumer watchgroup Postwatch that found nearly a tenth of letters to the capital do not arrive on time.

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Multi-million pound deal marks TNT UK new arrival

Posted by | Apr 21, 2006 | |

TNT Document Services has secured a multi-million pound five-year contract extension from Land Registry. The new division – TNT Document Services, formerly known as Cendris UK – part of TNT Express Specialist Services (TESS), deals with transactional print, scanning, offshore data capture, data management and digital archiving. TNT Document Services has enjoyed a long-standing commercial partnership with Land Registry that has already encompassed the electronic scanning of 18 million property title plans in England and Wales and 16 million supporting documents and 90 million items. The latest five-year agreement was sealed at a contract signing ceremony attended by the Land Registry’s Chief Procurement Officer, Tim Leaver and Bob Black, Chief Operating Officer of TNT Express Services UK, at Land Registry Head Office in Lincoln Inn Fields, London.

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Postcomm reveals plan to smash competition barriers

Posted by | Apr 21, 2006 | |

Small businesses are being urged to scrutinise how much money they spend on direct mail postage – and hunt down better deals – as part of Postcomm’s plans to tear down the barriers to competition in the privatised postal market. The call comes as the regulator publishes a decision document setting out its recommendations on tackling the obstacles that were identified in its Competitive Market Review, published in November 2005. The 54-page paper includes a wide range of recommendations. Although, as the independent regulator, it cannot recommend one postal operator over another, it admits that low awareness remains a major barrier. A Postcomm spokeswoman says: “Not many smaller companies realise that the threshold for mailings to be handled by private operators has come down from 3,000 items to 250. We urge these businesses to get in touch with all postal operators, including Royal Mail, to see what deals are out there.

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Firm wins GBPm deal to provide utility bills

Posted by | Apr 21, 2006 | |

A firm has won a contract worth GBP500,000 to print customer accounts for an energy giant. Otm, based on Braunstone Frith Industrial Estate has signed a deal with a division of energy firm npower called Yorkshire Electricity and Northern Electricity (YENE). The agreement will see OTM print 70,000 electricity and gas bills a day and post them to all YENE consumers. Kris Prashad, managing director, say the partnership could help win further new contracts with major blue chip clients. He said: “We won the contract following a tender and we are pleased we got it. “Winning this deal will give us confidence and, hopefully, in the next 12 months people will see that our customer base has increased.”

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UK Royal Mail pay “final offer”

Posted by | Apr 20, 2006 | |

The Communication Workers Union received an offer last night on the Royal Mail 2006 pay review. This was the first open offer and was also described as the final offer. The offer consisted of a 2.9% increase in basic pensionable pay flowing through to weekday overtime rates only. The increase would not apply to other overtime or to allowances. The offer also includes a form of words that set out parameters for further negotiations. These negotiations cover the bigger issues regarding the future of Royal Mail. The Union’s postal executive is considering this offer today and further information will follow.

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