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UK Royal Mail Group changes plans for bulky post

Posted by | Mar 30, 2005 | |

Royal Mail has amended its plans for size-based pricing to provide limited relief for companies that send light but bulky items through the post, including mail order photo finishers and compact disc retailers.

The proposals, which still have to be approved by regulator Postcomm, are more generous to some companies sending bulky packages than the initial plans outlined last April. But Royal Mail is sticking with its intention of abandoning its practice of charging solely according to weight.

The move to size-based pricing is supported by many in the mail order industry, including homeware retailers. But it is opposed by greeting card makers, magazine publishers and mail order photo finishers, who claim it would cost their industries millions of pounds in extra postage.

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New Royal Mail price proposals to incorporate size and format leave 70% of mail unaffected

Posted by | Mar 29, 2005 | |

Royal Mail today published new proposals for pricing mail mainly based on size, which could affect up to 20% of items sent by consumers, and up to 30% of the UK’s total business and consumer mailbag. The changes, which are subject to regulatory approval, would not be introduced until April 2006. They would move postal prices in line with costs by removing some of the hidden cross subsidies funded by high charges to customers sending certain items which are cheaper for postal operators to handle. UK mail prices have historically been set purely on the basis of weight, even though the size and shape of items are what largely determine the costs of collecting, sorting and delivering letters and packets. The new prices would be mainly based on the format of the item being sent.

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An Post to outsource cash transit service

Posted by | Mar 27, 2005 | |

An Post is proposing to outsource its countrywide cash transit service.

The postal service confirmed last week that it had received over 10 expressions of interest from private companies to tender for the provision of cash-in-transit services for selected post offices throughout Ireland. Most of this work is currently done by An Post delivery teams.

A spokesman for An Post said that only two of its cash delivery teams had been held up in the last two years. Private security teams have been held up at the rate of one a week over the same period.

We have by far the biggest network of cash outlets in the country, and the cash transit service involved is also one of the biggest in the country, said the spokesman. We are the main provider of social welfare deliveries, and we are the largest processing agent for bills. We’re a substantial provider of cash.

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Geodis opens up European front

Posted by | Mar 24, 2005 | |

Geodis is to launch a new European groupage servicecalled Eurofirst next month, providing customers with online tracking, PoDs and quality reports. The service will initially cover ten countries, including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain; a further 15 countries will be added at the end of the year. Geodis launched the Eurofirst product at its annual results presentation in London last Friday. The main groupage business in the UK goes live with Eurofirst in April and the pallet network, Fortec, is expected to plug into the system in May. This should prove a major benefit for Fortec member companies and their customers, says managing director Rod Abrahams.

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Amtrak all set to deliver

Posted by | Mar 23, 2005 | |

Bristol delivery company Amtrak Express Parcels has won a £3 million contract to deliver home computers for Tiny.com. The company will offer a next-day service for PCs and multimedia systems from the online retailer, sister company of Time Computers and The Computer Shop. It will deliver from Tiny’s manufacturing plant in Burnley, offering evening and Saturday deliveries.

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