Tag: UK

UPS says it will add overseas letter delivery to package service for its Europe customers

Posted by | Jan 11, 2006 | |

United Parcel Service, Inc. said Wednesday it would offer overseas letter delivery to its package customers in Europe. The company would offer the new letter service in February – expanding a test project begun in Britain to Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, UPS spokesman Georg Leusch said from the company’s German offices in Neuss. “The numbers there have far exceeded our plans,” he said. Leusch said letters would be collected unsorted in mail bags from customers and forwarded to foreign destinations by UPS’ partner, Swiss Post International.

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UK Royal Mail targets businesses in multi-million pound campaign to prepare for new pricing system

Posted by | Jan 10, 2006 | |

Royal Mail has launched a direct mail campaign to help businesses across the UK prepare for the introduction of its new pricing system, Pricing in Proportion (PiP). Packs providing information on the new pricing system, as well as advice on how companies can manage the impact of PiP, are being sent to nearly half a million small, medium and large businesses from this week. The mailing follows a series of tailored mail-outs in December 2005 to companies in the marketing, publishing, charity and home shopping sectors who will be most affected by the changes Pricing in Proportion will be introduced on 21 August 2006 and takes into account the size and shape as well as the weight of mail.

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Pims acquisition creates more direct mail capacity

Posted by | Jan 10, 2006 | |

Corporate Mailing Matters (CMM) has completed the acquisition of the business and assets of direct mail company Pims National. Pims will now trade as CMM National (a division of Corporate Mailing Matters), in a move which brings CMM’s annual turnover close to GBP30m. CMM said that the acquisition of such a profitable, well managed business with an experienced and capable management team, is designed to extend CMM’s production and management capacity to support the company’s growth objectives.

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Competition might mean the end of the Royal Mail's monopoly, but the 350-year-old organisation could still deliver surprises

Posted by | Jan 8, 2006 | |

THESE are testing times for Adam Crozier. The Royal Mail’s Falkirk-born chief executive has been facing the prospect of open competition for his pounds-6 billion-plus monopoly since January 1. Foreign players, including TNT and DHL, owned respectively by the Dutch and German national post offices, as well as Birmingham-based UK Mail, part of Business Post, are all eyeing up a slice of the action. Most of the 14 players who have been awarded UK operating licences by regulator Postcomm are hoping to cherrypick the most profitable parts of Royal Mail business.

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