Tag: UK

Pitney Bowes plans for future in era of declining mail usage

Posted by | Jun 6, 2004 | |

In dozens of countries around the world, Pitney Bowes Inc. has woven an unbreakable connection to mail.

It started as a postal meter company in 1920. Today, Stamford-based Pitney Bowes makes sorters that separate letters by postal codes. It writes and sells software that enables small and large businesses to post mail, ship packages and track where those packages have landed. Pitney Bowes even has become a post office for postal companies: collecting, sorting and organizing the shipment of outgoing mail even for United Parcel Service, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service.

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PPA urges industry to outline UK postal fears

Posted by | Jun 5, 2004 | |

Magazine publishers have four weeks to respond to proposals by the Royal Mail to overhaul the method of pricing for packages.

The Periodical Publishers’ Association has asked magazine groups to state their objections and comments on a number of issues likely to impact on the industry.

The consultation includes proposals to remove special pricing arrangements for block mailing over 250,000 items and changes to price dependent on size and folding of packages.

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Are Royal Mail profits at expense of service?

Posted by | Jun 4, 2004 | |

Two years after the launch of Royal Mail’s ambitious three-year improvement plan, the postal operator has turned in a profit. But its failure to meet 15 public service tests suggest a heavy price has been paid. By Curtis Brown

After Royal Mail delivered a #220m profit last week, chairman Allan Leighton said the result was “not good enough”. He and millions of customers were let down by colossal failures in the first two years of a three-year improvement plan.

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Why size-based pricing critics miss the point

Posted by | Jun 4, 2004 | |

Those industry stalwarts opposing size-based pricing are displaying a traditional knee-jerk reaction to any sort of change. They have somewhat missed the point.

Some form of size-based pricing is almost universal throughout Europe. At the moment, you could put together a European mailing campaign posted from the UK, with one pack sized 240mm x 165mm x 5mm, weighing up to 100g for the recipients on the Continent, and then another pack any size you fancy, but weighing under 60g for the Brits.

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