ANC Express has chosen Carrier Logistics to build a new track and trace computer system to handle the 125,000 pieces of freight it moves each night. The Focus system is in the final stages of testing before its implementation across ANCs national network.
Read MoreAmtrak this week rolled out an extended home delivery service across the the UK; it will deliver up to 8.30pm. Amtrak first trialled the service in London and then expanded to several other large cities for the past year, and trialled it before Christmas with a major customer, before rolling out nationwide. Amtrak says the move is in response to growing demand. MD Jonathan Smith says: “People want deliveries at a convenient time when they are already at home and for many that is not in the working day. Evening deliveries are pretty essential in our view and are a part of a range of services we are developing to tackle the home delivery sector.”
Read MoreTNT Mail has used this week’s official launch of its bulk mailing delivery service to target direct mail firms.
“With innovative systems, an enterprising approach and competitive pricing, we are setting new standards in the postal services sector,” said chief executive Nick Wells.
The firm has two methods of delivery, a two-day business service, which offers 100pct nationwide coverage for items up to 60g and a five-day option for items from 60g to 2kg, which are delivered by Express Dairies to 20pct of UK households.
At present the two-day service involves the firm collecting, trunking and then sorting and delivering to Royal Mail sorting offices for “final mile” delivery.
The firm’s business offering is a rival to Royal Mail’s second class post, delivering 95pct of its items within two days, a day faster than the Royal Mail’s service.
Read MoreThe Royal Mail is facing growing competition in the deregulated postal market, with rival firms already snapping up large contracts.
Last week TNT Mail, part of the TPG Group that owns the Dutch national post office, revealed that it has secured a further five customers in three months of operation. Its client base now totals 25 and includes names such as Sky, Caudwell Communications and Specsavers.
Chief executive officer Nick Wells said: “Business cannot afford to ignore the opportunities now available in the deregulated postal market. Every financial director of every company should be looking at how we can make their mailing budgets work harder for them.”
Read MoreIreland faced a probable strike Wednesday at An Post, the national postal service, because of a showdown between union leaders and managers over the imminent closure of its troubled package-delivery unit, SDS.
The Communications Workers Union gave the company’s management a noon (1200GMT) ultimatum to reinstate 68 employees, who were suspended Monday after refusing to clear a backlog of packages from SDS’s closing headquarters in southwest Dublin.
An Post, which plans to close SDS by the end of the month, said it would not reinstate the 68 unless they do their jobs as ordered. The workers had refused to transfer packages to an An Post depot in Portlaoise, west of Dublin, where the company plans to handle package deliveries from now on.
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