Tag: UK

TNT Mail wins 5 UK customers in 1st 3 mths

Posted by | Jan 18, 2005 | |

TNT Mail, the main challenger to Royal Mail in the UK deregulated postal market, said it has secured five customers in its first three months of operation. New clients include Sky, Caudwell Communications, Express Gifts, and Booker, all of which will operate under TNT Mail’s downstream access agreement with Royal Mail. This is in addition to its 20 existing customers. Since the access agreement with Royal Mail went live in August 2004, TNT Mail is now handling nearly 1 million items every week. Through the existing customer base TNT Mail expects to handle over 200 million items in 2005 but will exceed this volume as new clients come on stream.

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DHL: John Hogan joins UK FTA Board

Posted by | Jan 17, 2005 | |

Managing Director of DHL Express UK & Ireland, John Hogan, has been co-opted to join the National Executive Board of the Freight Transport Association. “I am delighted to have been asked to join the board. The FTA is a powerful force for good in our industry and I am looking forward to working with the other directors and contributing to the future direction of the freight and distribution industry in the UK.”

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UK Royal Mail wants to enter German letter delivery market

Posted by | Jan 17, 2005 | |

Royal Mail Group PLC wants to enter the German letter market via its GLS Holding unit once Deutsche Post World Net AG’s delivery monopoly ends in 2007, Rico Back, chief executive of the GLS unit told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview.

Back told the newspaper that Deutsche Post mail carriers should be required to deliver mail from other postal firms from 2007, the newspaper reported.

Though there is no guarantee this will occur, such a system already exists in the UK. There, the Royal Mail charges rivals a fee of 18 cents per pre-sorted letter delivered by its own mail carriers.

Deutsche Post uses this service in the UK, but it does not reciprocate in its domestic market, Back told the newspaper.

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Post Office’s branch lines: Expansion of services is a counter revolution

Posted by | Jan 16, 2005 | |

IF YOU think that the Post Office is just a place to buy stamps or pick up a form to renew your passport, you haven’t been in for a while. From the array of financial services now on offer you could be forgiven for thinking that the Post Office has turned into a bank, and with the launch of its new telephone landline service last week, it is assuming the role of a utility provider too.
It is only a little over two decades since the Post Office lost control of the bulk of the supply of phone services in Britain, when Margaret Thatcher split telecoms off from the high street and mail side of the business in 1981, and subsequently privatised the newly named British Telecom. Now the Post Office has returned to the telecoms market with its Homephone service, which it says it hopes will take a million of BT’s 21 million customers over the next three years, by undercutting its charges by up to 20 per cent. As the controversy rages over branch closures – and there are more on the way – the Post Office, which is seen as being at the forefront in providing financial services for the ‘unbanked’, is pulling out all the stops to find a new role.

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Small shops in revolt against UK Post Office

Posted by | Jan 15, 2005 | |

The Post Office was accused yesterday of undermining its own network of sub-post offices with demands for huge levies and restrictions on the services branches can offer. Convenience store owners, many of which have recently taken over local post office services, said the demands by the state enterprise that they pay large commissions from their other commercial activities to the Post Office were a restrictive practice that could drive many to close the sub-post offices in their shops. Demands by the Post Office for bigger payments from convenience store owners were also discouraging independent shops and chains of convenience store owners from taking over post office services, depriving many areas of the country of a branch. Store owners said the move could lead to more closures – beyond the 2,500 already shut down or earmarked for closure – should only a few incentives remain for them to step in and take over the local franchise.

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