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Royal Mail's challenger, TNT Post UK, to rebrand as 'whistl'
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Royal Mail's challenger, TNT Post UK, to rebrand as 'whistl'
http://postandparcel.info/62638/news/co ... istl/Royal" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Mail’s biggest rival in the UK postal market has announced a major rebrand, changing its name to “whistl”.
TNT Post UK, the second biggest postal service operating in the UK, is owned by Dutch postal operator PostNL, which used to be part of the worldwide shipping giant TNT Group.
TNT Group split up in 2011, with the express part of the business becoming TNT Express and the postal business becoming PostNL. However, PostNL’s international postal businesses were allowed to continue using the TNT Post name following the demerger, with the understanding that they would change their names by the end of 2014.
In Germany, TNT Post has been rebranded as PostCon, while in Italy it is rebranding into Nexive.
Keeping its previous orange and black colours, TNT Post UK said its new moniker has been the result of “extensive” research and development work over the past 18 months.
The firm said whistl suggests the idea of “happy people” as the word is a “natural reaction when people are happily going about their work”. Beyond the Snow White and the Seven Dwarves-style image of its work force, the company also suggested that the brand whistl is future-proofed and flexible for any future expansion into new market sectors or segments.
“We have reached another significant milestone in our history with the name change to whistl. The new brand reflects the team work culture of our business, our positive can-do attitude and our aim to do the right thing for our colleagues, customers and the communities in which we work,” said Nick Wells, the whistl chief executive.
“whistl is dynamic and entrepreneurial; we will continue to make a noise in the industry, whether this is through innovation or challenging convention, so our clients continue to love us and we continue to be successful.”
whistle’s rebranding has been overseen by the company’s director of marketing and communications, Melanie Darvall, with the brand launch developed by Leamington Spa-based Sutcliffes.
whistl while you work
whistl, as it is now known, is headquartered in Marlow, west of London, and has been providing postal services in the UK since 2004, taking advantage of the liberalisation of the postal market under European legislation.
The company is one of the biggest Downstream Access operators in the UK, collecting business mail from customers before sorting it and handing it to Royal Mail for the last mile stage of delivery. It claims to collect 22% of UK mail, processing more than 4bn items a year.
However, it has come to particular prominence since 2012 after it decided to take Royal Mail head-on in the last mile market, launching end-to-end collection-sorting-and-delivery operations in London. The service has now expanded to Manchester and Liverpool, with expectations of venturing further across the UK over the next few years.
The TNT Post service has been labelled by Royal Mail as a threat to the UK’s universal postal service, because it is focusing on the most profitable areas of delivery, urban addresses. The regulator, Ofcom, has so far rejected calls to hold an inquiry into the threat to Royal Mail’s services.
A report from Ofcom issued last month suggested that Royal Mail’s challenger now delivers to 1.2m of Britain’s 29m addresses through 23 delivery units, delivering three days a week compared to Royal Mail’s six.
whistl’s delivery volumes still remain very small compared to Royal Mail’s, at less than 0.4% of the addressed mail market. But, Royal Mail’s argument for the company to be exposed to the same kind of universal postal service obligations is based on the fact that while smaller in scope, whistl’s delivery rounds are all in the most profitable areas, hitting Royal Mail’s most lucrative areas that would normally cover the financial cost of its most difficult, rural routes.
Over the weekend, it emerged that MPs are considering launching an inquiry of their own into the competition TNT Post/whistl is providing Royal Mail, despite last October’s privatisation of the universal service provider.
Source: Post&Parcel/TNT Post UK
TNT Post UK, the second biggest postal service operating in the UK, is owned by Dutch postal operator PostNL, which used to be part of the worldwide shipping giant TNT Group.
TNT Group split up in 2011, with the express part of the business becoming TNT Express and the postal business becoming PostNL. However, PostNL’s international postal businesses were allowed to continue using the TNT Post name following the demerger, with the understanding that they would change their names by the end of 2014.
In Germany, TNT Post has been rebranded as PostCon, while in Italy it is rebranding into Nexive.
Keeping its previous orange and black colours, TNT Post UK said its new moniker has been the result of “extensive” research and development work over the past 18 months.
The firm said whistl suggests the idea of “happy people” as the word is a “natural reaction when people are happily going about their work”. Beyond the Snow White and the Seven Dwarves-style image of its work force, the company also suggested that the brand whistl is future-proofed and flexible for any future expansion into new market sectors or segments.
“We have reached another significant milestone in our history with the name change to whistl. The new brand reflects the team work culture of our business, our positive can-do attitude and our aim to do the right thing for our colleagues, customers and the communities in which we work,” said Nick Wells, the whistl chief executive.
“whistl is dynamic and entrepreneurial; we will continue to make a noise in the industry, whether this is through innovation or challenging convention, so our clients continue to love us and we continue to be successful.”
whistle’s rebranding has been overseen by the company’s director of marketing and communications, Melanie Darvall, with the brand launch developed by Leamington Spa-based Sutcliffes.
whistl while you work
whistl, as it is now known, is headquartered in Marlow, west of London, and has been providing postal services in the UK since 2004, taking advantage of the liberalisation of the postal market under European legislation.
The company is one of the biggest Downstream Access operators in the UK, collecting business mail from customers before sorting it and handing it to Royal Mail for the last mile stage of delivery. It claims to collect 22% of UK mail, processing more than 4bn items a year.
However, it has come to particular prominence since 2012 after it decided to take Royal Mail head-on in the last mile market, launching end-to-end collection-sorting-and-delivery operations in London. The service has now expanded to Manchester and Liverpool, with expectations of venturing further across the UK over the next few years.
The TNT Post service has been labelled by Royal Mail as a threat to the UK’s universal postal service, because it is focusing on the most profitable areas of delivery, urban addresses. The regulator, Ofcom, has so far rejected calls to hold an inquiry into the threat to Royal Mail’s services.
A report from Ofcom issued last month suggested that Royal Mail’s challenger now delivers to 1.2m of Britain’s 29m addresses through 23 delivery units, delivering three days a week compared to Royal Mail’s six.
whistl’s delivery volumes still remain very small compared to Royal Mail’s, at less than 0.4% of the addressed mail market. But, Royal Mail’s argument for the company to be exposed to the same kind of universal postal service obligations is based on the fact that while smaller in scope, whistl’s delivery rounds are all in the most profitable areas, hitting Royal Mail’s most lucrative areas that would normally cover the financial cost of its most difficult, rural routes.
Over the weekend, it emerged that MPs are considering launching an inquiry of their own into the competition TNT Post/whistl is providing Royal Mail, despite last October’s privatisation of the universal service provider.
Source: Post&Parcel/TNT Post UK
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Re: Royal Mail’s challenger, TNT Post UK, to rebrand as “whi
Mmmmmm Consignia rebranding type failure I think
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Re: Royal Mail’s challenger, TNT Post UK, to rebrand as “whi
Gosh! What world do these marketing bods live in?
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Re: Royal Mail’s challenger, TNT Post UK, to rebrand as “whi
Even better than Consignia.noggin1969 wrote:Mmmmmm Consignia rebranding type failure I think
He/She/They can whistle for it, albeit a slightly old-fashioned phrase, means something that you say which means you are determined that someone will not get what they want, such as "If they want money, they can whistle for it" meaning "They're not getting a penny out of me!"
What a glorious admission of failure. "Sure we can" replaced by 'You can WHISTL for it'
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Re: Royal Mail’s challenger, TNT Post UK, to rebrand as “whi
You mean like this Lounge Lizard ?
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Yes.noggin1969 wrote:You mean like this Lounge Lizard ?
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Or quite simply "Where's my mail?" "You can Whistl for it"
Most likely the first and last letters 'W' 'L' represent West London where they started their mail deliveries while the middle four letters 'hist' are an anagram of the level of service they provide.
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Re: Royal Mail’s challenger, TNT Post UK, to rebrand as “whi
It's a shame they can't spell
They take the profits, you take the blame
When they tell you there's no rise in pay
When they tell you there's no rise in pay
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Re: Royal Mail’s challenger, TNT Post UK, to rebrand as “whi
Thought it was a joke until I went to the TNT site, what a crap name!
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- but are you surprised ?Speedmeister wrote:It's a shame they can't spell
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No, not reallyLounge Lizard wrote:- but are you surprised ?Speedmeister wrote:It's a shame they can't spell
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how can it possibly be a crap name when 18 months of "extensive research and development" produced it?trythat wrote:Thought it was a joke until I went to the TNT site, what a crap name!
Am I the only one who thinks that there are too many people working in the marketing/public relations sphere with their heads stuck way too far up their own arses?
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- which, of course, is where they can see "a crap name".Ozzvaldo wrote:how can it possibly be a crap name when 18 months of "extensive research and development" produced it?trythat wrote:Thought it was a joke until I went to the TNT site, what a crap name!
Am I the only one who thinks that there are too many people working in the marketing/public relations sphere with their heads stuck way too far up their own arses?
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Re: Royal Mail’s challenger, TNT Post UK, to rebrand as “whi
Lounge Lizard wrote: - which, of course, is where they can see "a crap name"
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Speaks for itselfTrueBlueTerrier wrote:In Germany, TNT Post has been rebranded as PostCon
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