Depuy settles on Target
Depuy UK, a provider of orthopaedic equipment and part of Johnson & Johnson has made Target Express its sole carrier for UK deliveries. Target has been building its share of Depuy work over five years.
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UK Royal Mail and Postcomm cross swords over price control
Royal Mail and Postcomm have again clashed over the regulator’s proposed price control, with job losses at the postal service under the media microscope.
Royal Mail is disputing Postcomm’s proposal that it can increase the price of first-class stamps from 30p to at most 34p by 2010.
Chief executive Adam Crozier, speaking on Monday’s ‘Today’ programme on BBC Radio 4, said the proposals were a backwards step.
“The proposals would take the company back to where it was three years ago, when we were losing GBP1.7bn,” he said.
Royal Mail is pushing for a bigger increase and has previously said that the control would lead to 40,000 job losses.
Read MorePostcomm seeks consent from UK mail operators for licence changes
Royal Mail’s rivals have been asked by Postcomm to consent to its final proposed modifications to their existing licences ahead of the introduction of full postal competition in January.
Postcomm has come up with a new standard licence for alternative operators to Royal Mail after industry-wide consultation.
The licence would replace those it has already issued to 10 operators and take effect from January 1 2006, but all those operators need to agree to the changes.
Postcomm said it would talk to the operators informally to get their consent, but if not all of them give it, it would mean referring the proposed changes to the Competition Commission for it to rule on them. This could potentially delay full market opening.
Read MoreDirect Post service launched in India
The Department of Posts received nearly 12,000 articles on the day of the launch of Direct Post service in the district on Monday, to be delivered to the public. A bulk of them was from the Life Insurance Corporation of India, Unit Trust of India and Oriental Insurance Company.
Exuding confidence that the Direct Post would facilitate the department to improve its revenue, the Director of Postal Service, Southern Region, K. Balasubramanian, said this new service would improve the mail service of the department, which was losing ground since the rapid advancement of Information Technology, the wide use of telephone and web services.
Launching the Direct Post service at a function here, he said the new service would ensure prompt delivery by a dedicated team of delivery staff (postmen) to the targeted group. The delivery staff would be paid a nominal incentive per card / letter delivered.
Read MoreChinese Postal Service reform must accelerate
The slow pace of the postal law amendment process is becoming a major impediment to the country’s postal system reform, experts say.
The State Council, China’s cabinet, finally endorsed a long-awaited postal system reform package late last month, formally kick starting a long-stalled reform process in the sector that many say is overdue. According to the plan, State Postal Bureau (SPB), also known as China Post, will separate the administrative role from its postal business functions, a move that many had expected.
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