The Pallet-Track network has partnered with Stafford haulier Stan Robinson to move hazardous goods. From January, it will become the first general system to be able to offer its members a full ADR service. Pallets arriving at the networks Wednesbury hub will be inspected by its dangerous goods safety advisor and paperwork checked before they are transferred to Robinsons Stafford headquarters for onward distribution.
Read MoreLoss-making An Post has decided to sell off two of its subsidiary companies which retail mobile phone top-ups, in a move which could raise up to 30m for the State-owned group. In recent days, Goodbody Stockbrokers has circulated potential buyers with an information memorandum on the sale of the two operations, the Irish Independent has learned. The two companies – PostTS UK, which is based in Crewe, Britain, and An Post Transaction Services SA, based in Madrid – are understood to be profitable and they employ a total of 100. The British company has made a gross turnover of GBP11m, according to its most recently-filed set of accounts. The UK operation has a network of terminals in 9,500 stores across Britain which allow consumers electronically top up the credit on their mobile phones. The Spanish operation, which has been longer established, has built up a network of over 11,200 terminals.
Read MoreRoyal Mail today welcomed Channel Four’s acknowledgement that a key part of April’s Dispatches film concerning the alleged theft of a Barclaycard was inaccurate, and that a mock-up of a postal worker stealing money from a birthday card in a newspaper advertisement for the programme was not backed up by any similar acts filmed by undercover reporters. Chief Executive Adam Crozier said, “Royal Mail and its people face more scrutiny in the media than most organisations. That’s fair enough – but from time to time when a real inaccuracy is portrayed, we need to intevene to ensure that our side is put across in a fair and balanced way.“
Read MoreRoyal Mail outraged the consumer watchdog Postwatch yesterday by proposing to charge less for franked mail than for customers who buy stamps. Peter Carr, chairman of Postwatch, called the proposals “a bloody riot”, adding that large numbers of small businesses, as well as residential customers, would be affected by the change. “We’re not at all happy with this,” he said. “First, we do not condone any price increases until service standards improve. And we don’t agree with metered-mail customers getting a better deal. “We’ve had four years of continually higher prices and service standards have not improved.”
Royal Mail is proposing to charge customers with franking machines a penny less per item of first-class mail, while businesses with pre-paid envelopes will be charged the same rate.
Royal Mail is planning to give small business customers a 1p discount off new stamp prices next April if they use franking machines, the company announced today. It is also proposed that business customers who send their mail in envelopes carrying a pre-paid postage indicia – a Printed Postage Impression (PPI) – will get the same 1p discount from April 2005. Adam Crozier, Royal Mail’s Chief Executive, said: “These discounts will help a great many of our customers, especially small to medium-sized businesses, who frank their mail or prepay their postage. It costs us less to collect and sort such mail and we therefore believe that customers using these services should enjoy a discount on postage prices.
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