Tag: UK

UK MPs are sent letters about misdelivered mail by post watchdog – but none of them arrives

Posted by | Jun 27, 2004 | |

The postal services watchdog, Postwatch, has lodged an official complaint with the Royal Mail after all the letters it sent to a group of MPs were lost in the post – the missing items were promoting a campaign to encourage people to report misdelivered or lost mail. The letters, addressed to 49 MPs at the House of Commons, were posted first class from Ely, Cambridgeshire, on May 13. Each was clearly marked with the Postwatch return address. After a fortnight, it became clear that none of the “Stamp Out Misdelivered Mail” campaign material had been delivered. Royal Mail had no explanation for this. A spokesman said:”We have conducted a full investigation and have found no evidence of any problems in the relevant postal areas. As far as we are concerned, the letters are not in our system.”

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UK Royal Mail Profits Could Hasten Privatization

Posted by | Jun 27, 2004 | |

The Royal Mail’s return to profit could speed a move to full competition, according to the chairman of regulator Postcomm. Sir Nigel Stapleton said a decision on “liberalisation” would not be taken until later this year, following a consultation exercise, but still ahead of the planned April 2007 deadline. Stapleton’s hints at faster liberalization will be welcomed by new entrants to the UK market including Deutsche Post and Dutch postal operators TPG, which recently obtained licenses and which are keen to grow their presence in the business market which accounts for 80% of the postal market.

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United pallet doubles up

Posted by | Jun 24, 2004 | |

The United Pallet Network is to double the size of its Melton Mowbray hub after growing volume by 52% in the past year. The network put the growth down to the success of its reduced “Volume” tariff for consignments of four or more pallets and it is now moving up to 1,800 pallets a night. Managing director Andrew Spencer says: “We’ve found the tariff, at a heavily rebated scale, extremely useful in attaining freight that operators would usually run directly themselves.” At its annual conference last weekend the network told members it is to introduce central billing next year for efficiency reasons and told of the successful launch of its member debt protection fund UPN Safeguard in April. The network has taken on 23 new members in the year, most recently South Humberside-based John Reid Trucking and Freight Movement in Newport.

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