Tag: UK

New London base supports quality at Palletline

Posted by | Dec 6, 2004 | |

The announcement this week of the decision by Palletline Plc to lease an 80,000ft2 site in Greenford, Middlesex further underlines the company’s sustained commitment to a nationwide continuous quality improvement programme.

The Greenford site will house Palletline’s first wholly-owned commercial depot serving the London area, and provide a new location with excellent road links for Palletline’s Southern Hub, channelling Palletline traffic into and out of London and the South East.

The move is an integral part of Palletline’s current drive to enhance service quality and consistency across the network, overcoming issues facing collections and deliveries within London and the surrounding areas.

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UK Royal Mail goes to war against post watchdog

Posted by | Dec 5, 2004 | |

Lawyers have been called in to settle a row that has broken out between Royal Mail and Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for postal services.

Allan Leighton, Royal Mail’s chairman, is demanding that Postwatch retracts comments made last week stating that consumers should not bother using first class stamps on Christmas cards this year because the service is so unreliable.

Letters have been flying between the two groups as relations have hit a new low.

Royal Mail has hired the law firm Shillings, and Postwatch is represented by Wragg & Co.

David Simpson, a Royal Mail spokesman said: “We are furious at the misleading impression Postwatch has given that first-class mail does not arrive faster than second class. That is absolute rubbish.”

But Postwatch is unfazed by Royal Mail’s anger. One source said defiantly: “This has gone off like a bomb. We are being bullied and Royal Mail is trying to gag us, but we will not be gagged.”

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Tuffnells unwraps offer of jobs

Posted by | Dec 1, 2004 | |

Express courier service Tuffnells has launched a recruitment drive after relocating to a new premises in Staffordshire.

The firm wants to fill various posts to expand its new GBP250,000 operation on Beacon Business Park in Stafford.

Tuffnells has relocated from a small satellite depot in Fradswell to the new site, formerly owned by the RAF.

Paul Harrison, general manager of the depot, said the relocation is a major boost for the area and the company which employs 1,500 people at its 25 depots in the UK and Ireland.

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BTB Mailflight Acquires Mailflow International Ltd

Posted by | Dec 1, 2004 | |

Ian Kavanagh, Managing Director of BTB Mailflight Ltd was today delighted to announce BTB Mailflight’s acquisition of Mailflow International Ltd.

BTB Mailflight Ltd, one of the UK’s leading international mailing houses has acquired Mailflow International to help the company accelerate towards their growth objectives.

Ian Kavanagh commented “Adding Mailflow to the BTB Mailflight Group increases our market share in the international mail arena and will further increase our buying power. This puts us in an even better position to continue to offer some of the most cost effective international mailing solutions available”.

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UK sub-postmasters ask OFT to rule Post Office contracts `illegal’

Posted by | Nov 30, 2004 | |

The UK Post Office was taken to the Office of Fair Trading yesterday in an attempt to have the contracts it imposes upon thousands of sub-postmasters ruled anti-competitive and illegal. The Association of Convenience Stores, which represents 10,000 sub-post offices, two-thirds of the network, claimed its members were losing millions of pounds because of the restrictions imposed on them. Its complaint to the OFT calls for the Post Office, which is part of Royal Mail, to be forced to withdraw the contracts so that corner shops that provide postal services have greater freedom to offer different products and services.

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