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...Meanwhile, parcel delivery has become an increasingly central part of the company’s business....
...Locked in a pay dispute with employer Royal Mail, postmen and women will strike again over the coming weeks....
...He earned the trust and business of delivery drivers, who often lacked food, by providing them with free meals through the gates....
...In January hackers disrupted Britain’s Royal Mail parcel delivery service....
...Ofcom also improved his chances of pushing through workplace reforms by finding few problems with a cut in letter deliveries from six days a week to five....
...Royal Mail claimed its introduction of “contact-free” delivery — where a postman or woman leaves items outside a door and stands back two metres after knocking, with no need for a signature — was a first...
...The relevance of this is that Royal Mail is the leading parcel operator in the UK with more than 50% market share of total parcel volumes....
...Vonovia responded with a statement that’s more confirmation than denial, but isn’t exactly either....
...The USPS said: “We welcome the president’s efforts to ensure that the compensation paid to the Postal Service for the delivery of international letter post mail is fair....
...DHL, which is owned by the mail and parcel group Deutsche Post, apologised to disappointed KFC customers on Monday....
...Meanwhile, growth in parcels – including deliveries for Amazon and “import parcels” – contributed to a six per cent increase in UK parcel volumes....
...But on Monday DHL, owned by the mail and parcel group Deutsche Post, was forced to apologise to disappointed KFC customers....
...The UK’s dominant Royal Mail has also made expanding in parcels a priority....
...Putin on the policy priorities It is that time of year again: On Thursday, several hundred reporters will squeeze into a room with Vladimir Putin to bombard the Russian president with questions for at least...
...The announcement follows Whistl’s confirmation last week that it would pull out of delivering letters, with the loss of 2,000 jobs....
...The mail division will be renamed “post, e-commerce, parcel” to reflect changing priorities....
...It was an almost impossible task to reconcile demands from all the competing stakeholders – and sell a declining business such as post and parcel delivery to the stock market – but she pulled it off....
...“It is simply not practical that mail room staff time is eaten up with personal packages when the priority is handling mail from customers and claimants,” the spokesperson said....
...Still, Royal Mail’s much-discussed privatisation has chugged a big stage forward with confirmation that an initial public offering of most of the government’s shares will take place within weeks....
...The trend of declining letter volumes and rising deliveries of parcels continued....
...Vince Cable, business secretary, said Royal Mail’s 150,000 UK employees would be eligible for a free 10 per cent stake in the delivery company as he confirmed the government would sell off a majority holding...
...Customers in Europe, where it is the sector leader, are switching from priority delivery to slower, cheaper products....
...Investors had pushed for the separation for years, arguing it would free TNT Express to compete with larger express-mail rivals such as FedEx, UPS and DHL....
...In the meantime, the big story of the morning is confirmation that the Age of Austerity has grown longer....
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