Tag: UK

Secret plan to replace UK post offices with a van

Posted by | Aug 3, 2005 | |

Small rural post offices will be under threat if a secret pilot scheme in the Highlands is successful and is rolled out across the country.

The Post Office would like to close five rural sub-post offices in Caithness and replace them with a van travelling around the area.

And to pave the way for the cost-cutting move, financial sweeteners are being offered to the current operators to quit.

The Post Office intends replicating the scheme in other outlying parts of the country as it seeks to reduce the £150million annual Government subsidy of its rural network.

Under threat are the long-established offices at Thrumster, Reiss, Keiss, Auckengill and Mey. Closure could mean difficulty for country people getting cash, with Auckengill, for example, 20 miles from the nearest cash machine at Wick.

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Postal unions face many challenges

Posted by | Aug 2, 2005 | |

Representatives from the Universal Postal Union (UPU), Pan African Union (PAU), Postal Operators Associations and representatives from different African countries have expressed their views on the challenges that the postal sector is facing within the developing countries. The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Transport, engineer Kudenga says the postal service unions in developing countries are witnessing dramatic changes in recent years, which includes, deregulation and globalization of markets, commercialization and new technologies such as internet and electronic commerce among other changes. He also noted that in response to these changes Zimbabwe has embarked on an extensive five year postal reform program in an effort to position our postal service more competitively in a rapidly changing environment.

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DHL raises ante on RFID

Posted by | Aug 1, 2005 | |

The race to deploy radio-frequency identification technology moved into a new stage. A major carrier has jumped into the mix, which may prompt shippers to take a fresh look at the technology. In June, DHL said it will place RFID tags on all of the more than 1 billion packages it ships annually by 2015, becoming the first major package carrier to commit to a complete RFID rollout by a certain date. “They’ve made it very clear they’re going to spend whatever it takes for RFID,” said Bob Berg, RFID manager at DHL Americas. The development generated predictions that DHL’s plan will advance the technology’s maturation and spur shippers to give it a closer look. “By 2015, RFID will already have established itself as the primary track-and-trace technology,” said Jack Grasso, senior director of corporate communications at GS1 U.S., the automated identification standards development and implementation body formerly known as the Uniform Code Council.

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UK Royal Mail argues for 48p stamp, saying letters are a drain

Posted by | Jul 28, 2005 | |

Royal Mail lost more than GBP200m last year on post that weighed under 100g, the company’s regulatory accounts showed yesterday. This is the category of mail that is regulated by the government-appointed regulator, Postcomm, and represents the organisation’s monopoly area, which is about to be removed completely. Chairman Allan Leighton said that the figures illustrated Royal Mail’s problem. “Ninety percent of what we do loses money” he said.
Mr Leighton is fighting a Postcomm price control proposal that would cap first and second class stamps at a level he says is unsustainable. He said yesterday that the prices need rebalancing, because customers sending heavy parcels are subsidising lighter mail.

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