An unattended delivery system for which Business Post now has the UK licence, called eBox, is on trial with several hundred customers.
Three sizes of eBox are available, taking deliveries or outbound shipments of up to 20kg. Business Post claims this makes the system suitable for the B2B sector as well as its HomeServe customers, such as service engineers and party planners. The company hopes by this means to reduce the problem of failed deliveries.
Recent acquisitions in the express parcel industry will help alleviate downward pressure on rates, according to Petar Cvetkovic, CEO of Target Express.
The wave of consolidation that happened a few months ago was for “negative reasons” as franchise operations such as Hellmann and NCN went bankrupt, Cvetkovic said. “They were offering low headline rates that were not sustainable.”
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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3
2. INTRODUCTION 3
2.1 “Big Brown” – A Transport Colossus 3
2.2 So What? 3
2.3 Exclusions 3
2.31 Not “The Document Courier Business” 3
2.4 Glossary 3
3. STRATEGY ANALYSIS 3
3.1 Global Transportation Industry Overview 3
3.2 Competitive Landscape 3
3.3 Strategic Capabilities 3
3.4 PESTEL/5 Forces Analysis – UPS 3
3.41 Buyers 3
3.42 Suppliers 3
3.5 Rivalry 3
3.6 Stakeholders 3
4. RECOMMENDATIONS 3
5. REFERENCES: 3
5.1 Bibliography 3
5.2 Website References: 3
APPENDICES 3
APPENDIX 1: Segmentation 3
Fig 2: Air and Express 3
Appendix 2: The “Integrators” 3
Appendix 3: Competitive Landscape 3
Appendix 4: Glossary of Terms 3
Appendix 5 – Industry Strategic Capabilities 3
Fig 1. 3
Fig 2. 3
Appendix 6: UPS Product/Market Matrix 3
Appendix 7 – PESTEL/5 Forces Analysis – UPS 3
Appendix 8. 3
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Shoppers and Returns survey 4
High Street shoppers and on-line shopping 4
Why High Street shoppers purchase on-line 5
When High Street shoppers shop least on-line 6
Returns and Shoppers 7
Returns differences across product and channel 8
When do you think goods can be returned? 10
Returns impact on Trading 11
Returns and Consumer understanding of their rights 12
Survey Summary and Conclusions 13
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