Tag: UK

First blood to PPA in UK postal row

Posted by | Jul 2, 2004 | |

Magazine publishers have won a significant victory against the Royal Mail, after plans to double postage prices if titles were considered too stiff to fit through letterboxes were shelved this week. The win for the Periodical Publishers’ Association follows intense lobbying in recent months after the Royal Mail unveiled proposals to give frontline staff the option to impose extra charges determined by the flexibility of a magazine. Magazine bosses were concerned that plans would massively increase postage costs as large numbers of titles carry cover mounts and supplements.

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Pallet Network sale ‘imminent’

Posted by | Jul 1, 2004 | |

Rumours are rife of a pallet network sale and point to one of the three independent market leaders. DfT report points to the sector’s effectiveness in moving goods.

A pallet network is about to be purchased by a major company, disclosed Paul Carvell, chief executive of Business Post last week. He told a Triangle express delivery conference that he had just heard that a sale was about to be announced.

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UK Royal Mails size-based pricing proposal still causing concern

Posted by | Jul 1, 2004 | |

Royal Mail’s size-based pricing proposal is continuing to cause concern for the magazine and direct mail industry with differences over the issue of uniformity.

The PPA and Royal Mail are set to meet and reach a compromise over the proposal that items 10mm-thick could be classified as packages rather than large letters, depending on a tolerance level of 2mm.

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Network sale ‘is imminent’

Posted by | Jul 1, 2004 | |

A pallet network is about to be purchased by a major company, disclosed Paul Carvell, chief executive of Business Post last week. He told a Triangle express delivery conference that he had just heard that a sale was about to be announced. The sector was already rife with speculation, with a purchase price of around (pounds sterling)30m being mentioned. That would point to one of the “big three” – Palletways, Pall-Ex or Palletline. And the pallets-as-parcels sector has been boosted by a report for the DfT, which indicates that the networks are far more efficient than, for example, supermarket distribution chains. That report went to the DfT ten days ago, industry sources say. Carvell did not reveal the name of the company to be bought and major players have denied it is them.

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