Tag: UK

UK Royal Mail’s GBP80m bill for poor service

Posted by | Jul 12, 2004 | |

Royal Mail’s bill for failing to provide adequate levels of service to business and retail customers last year will be up to GBP80m, the postal regulator will shortly announce.

Postcomm, the postal services commission, could also impose further penalties in the form of fines for what are understood to be escalating levels of failure by the state-owned postal services company in 2003-04. Last year, Royal Mail was fined GBP7.5m for failing to meet service targets, but it has now brought in a system of compensating business and retail customers.

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UK Parcelforce jobs axed in cost-cutting move

Posted by | Jul 10, 2004 | |

Parcelforce is axing part of its Teesside workforce in a cost-cutting drive, the company’s parent group Royal Mail has confirmed.

The Royal Mail is to make 13 redundancies from its 75-strong workforce at the Parcelforce Worldwide depot at Riverside Park, Middlesbrough.

The company says the redundancies will be voluntary and the cuts at its loss-making parcel division are part of company cost cuts. A Royal Mail spokesman said: “We are currently reorganising our Parcelforce network on a nationwide basis.

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TNT hopes double summit will resolve parking dispute

Posted by | Jul 9, 2004 | |

Leading business-to-business express delivery giant, TNT, is optimistic that a double summit with two London borough councils will spell an end to the long-running parking fines dispute in the capital. Faced with annual parking fines of up to GBP300,000 in London, TNT Express Services has been leading a six-month campaign calling on local authorities to review their ‘no parking’ policies and to stop imposing ‘draconian’ fines on delivery companies. Nigel Barton, Director of Operations for TNT Express Services, is hoping that key negotiations scheduled for next week with both Westminster and Camden Councils, will bring a speedy resolution. TNT representatives are due to meet Council officials next Thursday (15th July) for face-to-face discussions, before TNT joins up with other members of the UK Express Network Forum for more talks with Westminster and Camden the following day (16th July).

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UK Target set to attack pallets

Posted by | Jul 8, 2004 | |

Target Express this week re-launched its UK-wide palletised distribution service, with guaranteed delivery pre-9am, pre-10am and pre-noon. Pallets will be trunked on the lower deck of double-deck trailers, with parcels carried on the upper deck in roll-cages. Target says it already moves more than 500,000 pallets a year annually and needed to re-position itself to attract more customers using it for parcels.

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