TNT Post Opens Collective Pick-Up Service In UK

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10 August 2009 by Sarah Sharpe - © Hellmail.co.uk

TNT Post is further opening up the benefits of postal competition to organisations which typically do not have the purchasing power to access competitor services to Royal Mail.

In alliance with Park Royal Partnership, regeneration agency for Europe’s largest industrial estate in London, TNT Post will trial a collective postal pick-up service for small volume mailers within the estate, as part of a £200 million utilities procurement initiative*.

The collective pick-up service will operate in areas of high business density. This allows organisations locally to post their mail regardless of volume, in a TNT Post box from which they are collected and sorted for final mile delivery.

The relationship with Park Royal is the latest shared services contract within TNT Post’s portfolio, which operate across the public and private sectors, as well as through procurement agencies including the OGC (Office of Government Commerce) and Value Wales.

TNT Post is committed to fully opening the benefits of postal competition to all UK organisations. Through shared services, smaller mailers can benefit from services similar to those offered to bulk mailers. In addition to its large volume mailers, TNT Post works with over 2000 small volume mailers that send upwards of 250 mail items a day. It services smaller mailers still through its hybrid mail offering, TNT-it, which allows users to send as few as one letter direct from their PC to TNT Post’s facilities, where they are automatically printed, folded, placed in an envelope and prepared for final mile delivery by Royal Mail.

Nick Monger-Godfrey, chief executive of Park Royal Partnership Group, commented: “Small businesses can often fail to attract competitive prices from suppliers because order volumes are small and infrequent and the costs of sales relative to income are seen as prohibitive. However, we are confident that our strategic partnership with TNT Post will now address this issue and see our 2000 resident businesses benefit from postal cost savings for the first time.”

Nick Wells, chief executive of TNT Post UK, added: “The spirit of the deregulated postal market is to provide choice, flexibility of service and cost and innovation benefits to businesses; it is our ambition to ensure that all organisations whether large or small, public or private have full access to the advantages of postal competition. The new partnership with Park Royal is an important step to further enabling this goal.”

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