TNT looks to doorstep post deliveries

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Robert Lea
13.02.09

Private sector posties could be on the streets of London within two years.

Dutch postal giant TNT says it is handling so much London mail it could make commercial sense to have its own doorstep delivery force in the capital by 2011. Such a move would be another blow to the Royal Mail.

TNT says it handles 20 per cent of all mail in London after winning accounts for organisations including BT, Barclays and Sky, as well as working for a number of councils and hospitals - with fast growth since the postal system was opened up to competition.

TNT and other private sector rivals such as UK Mail currently use Royal Mail postal staff for the "final mile" doorstep delivery - and pay for the service.

But now TNT says it is collecting and sorting so much mail from smaller businesses it is considering creating its own force of posties in the capital.

"If the market conditions are right and the regulatory environment is right then it makes sense," said UK commercial director Charles Neilson.

[Tman]

'Course you will Charles.

To save on transport costs, the "deliverers" could all ride flying pigs too.....

[rhino49]

I like it when their staff stop and ask me for directions - in very broken english !!!

[F0zziebear]

I would be suprised in this happens as the recruitment costs in London makes it difficult to make a private mail business make money. Sending mail in London is highly profitable for Royal Mail, but difficult to break into. TNT PR spin I believe

[LDV 350]

I like it when their staff stop and ask me for directions - in very broken english !!!

Just answer back in broken English you dont know

[DGP1]

I like it when their staff stop and ask me for directions - in very broken english !!!

I had one today asking me where a house was and after explaining to him very carefully that he was nowhere near it(similar name but about a mile away) he just shrugged and went off in the opposite direction (of course it could've been my poor Polish ).

[dvbuk55]

I like it when their staff stop and ask me for directions - in very broken english !!!

I had one today asking me where a house was and after explaining to him very carefully that he was nowhere near it(similar name but about a mile away) he just shrugged and went off in the opposite direction (of course it could've been my poor Polish ).

Did he say - Dziekuje pronounced dzhehnkooyeh . No seriously though I'll bet he was English and couldn't understand your brouge - he probably thought he'd found the village idiot

[DGP1]

I like it when their staff stop and ask me for directions - in very broken english !!!

I had one today asking me where a house was and after explaining to him very carefully that he was nowhere near it(similar name but about a mile away) he just shrugged and went off in the opposite direction (of course it could've been my poor Polish ).

Did he say - Dziekuje pronounced dzhehnkooyeh . No seriously though I'll bet he was English and couldn't understand your brouge - he probably thought he'd found the village idiot

And you'd probably be right Of course we've 3 managers so we're depriving 3 villages of their idiots

[POSTMAN]

However TNT Post's chief executive Nick Wells denied reports that the company's delivery men would be working in London by 2011. He told The Daily Telegraph: "In the foreseeable future we can't see orange postmen on the streets of London."

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[dvbuk55]

I like it when their staff stop and ask me for directions - in very broken english !!!

I had one today asking me where a house was and after explaining to him very carefully that he was nowhere near it(similar name but about a mile away) he just shrugged and went off in the opposite direction (of course it could've been my poor Polish ).

Did he say - Dziekuje pronounced dzhehnkooyeh . No seriously though I'll bet he was English and couldn't understand your brouge - he probably thought he'd found the village idiot

And you'd probably be right Of course we've 3 managers so we're depriving 3 villages of their idiots

No - they do two days each, they can't manage a full week