Tag: UK

UK Royal Mail’s monopoly to end on 1 January 2006

Posted by | Feb 18, 2005 | |

Britain’s postal service market will be fully liberalised from 1 January 2006, Postcomm announced today. The move completes the process of removing the monopoly enjoyed by Royal Mail for more than 350 years. Nigel Stapleton, chairman of Postcomm said: “After three months of consultation, a substantial majority gave the thumbs-up to competition. We can now look forward to a more innovative and efficient postal industry focused on providing customers with the services they want, rather than being told by a monopolist what services they can – and cannot – have.” The decision means that from 2006 – fifteen months earlier than originally planned – licensed companies other than Royal Mail will be able to collect, transport and deliver letters and charge customers for the service. It follows extensive consultation in which a large majority of respondents said they favoured an early introduction of full market opening.

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Growth falling, say UK Pallet networks

Posted by | Feb 17, 2005 | |

Palletised freight networks have been the star growth performers of the transport industry in recent years but sector sees signs that growth is slowing as market matures.

Pallet networks are seeing the first signs that the strong growth in the sector is starting to weaken. Demand is still growing – but not as quickly as many networks had forecast. Palletline managing director Glyn Jones has revised the firm’s growth forecast for this year from double-digit to single-digit. “Our pallet volumes aren’t down; they are just not increasing anything like they were. There has been a significant reduction in growth since the autumn last year. “The reasons are a slow down and reduction in stock turnaround – our members have full warehouses. Also, the slowdown in the housing market is having an impact, a lot of transhipments are domestic and consumer goods, and if people are not moving neither are these types of goods.

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Postcomm issues a long term licence to Mail Plus

Posted by | Feb 17, 2005 | |

Following consultation, Postcomm today issued a long term licence to Mail Plus Ltd to provide bulk mail and consolidation services. The licence contains a requirement for Mail Plus to maintain separate accounts for its UK licensed business to show that it is not being unfairly cross-subsidised by its parent company, La Poste.

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UPN boss joins rival

Posted by | Feb 17, 2005 | |

Andrew Sepencer left United Pallet Network, where he was managing director, on Friday to join rivals Pallet-Track as sales and marketing director. Spencer says: It was a personal decision to leave. I became stale and stagnant at UPN. I wanted to move forward and Pallet-Track presented me with an excellent way to achieve this. I cant wait to get involved.

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UK Royal Mail’s autumn first class letter deliveries among the best on record

Posted by | Feb 14, 2005 | |

Royal Mail’s performance during the busy Autumn period was the best in almost ten years, giving the company a solid base to build on for the future. New figures show 91.9% of First Class letters were delivered the working day after posting, a similar performance to that achieved between July and September when volumes are lower and transport less vulnerable to bad weather. Every one of Royal Mail’s fifteen performance measures for letter and parcel services showed significant improvements from last year. On a cumulative basis 12 of the fifteen measures have been maintained or improved. Chief Executive Adam Crozier said, “This is a tremendously encouraging result for everyone in Royal Mail and for our customers, but we know we have more to do. These results clearly buck the usual seasonal trends and show a continuing improvement in underlying performance during the busiest three months of the year.

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