Sponsored by
Number of staff: 48 Parent company: Royal Mail Group
Number of depots and locations: N/A Speciality: postal and parcel carrier to residential and business
Turnover: £36 million addresses
Average daily volume: 450,000 items
Number of staff: 170,000
Peak daily volume: 800,000 items
Number of depots and locations: 1,500 mail centres and delivery
Maximum weight of packages accepted: 30kg
offi ces, 1,200 Post Offi ce branches
Company profi le: Onepost provides independent postal advice and
Turnover: £7 billion
management, using expert knowledge and specialist software
Average daily volume: 75 million
to offer cost savings for sorted UK and international mailings,
Peak daily volume: 123 million
unsorted post, packets, and parcels.
Maximum weight of packages accepted: no maximum for UK fi rst
class; 20kg for guaranteed next-day and parcels; 1kg for UK
Parcel2Go.com
second class
Address: Coe House, Coe Street,
Company profi le: The only UK delivery company to offer one price
Off Bridgeman Street, Bolton BL3 6BU
anywhere within the UK, with no surcharges for rural deliveries
Tel: 0844 847 2600
and free returns and redelivery, Royal Mail also offers delivery
worldwide and a variety of nondelivery mailroom, warehousing, and
Website:
www.parcel2go.com
direct marketing consultancy services.
Contact: Richard Adams-Mercer, business development manager,
r.mercer@
parcel2go.com
TNT Express Services
Year founded: 2000
Address: Holly Lane, Atherstone, Warwickshire CV9 2RY
Speciality: parcel carrier to residential and business addresses
Tel: 01827 303030
Number of staff: approximately 30
Website:
www.tnt.co.uk
Number of depots and locations: one depot in Bolton, Lancashire
Contact: David Walker,
david.john.walker@
tnt.co.uk
Turnover: £12 million (forecast for 2009)
Year founded: 1978
Average daily volume: 4,500 parcels
Parent company: TNT Group
Peak daily volume: 7,000 parcels
Speciality: parcel carrier to business addresses
Maximum weight of packages accepted: 31.5kg
Number of staff: 11,000
Company profi le:
Parcel2Go.com has more than 800,000 users
Number of depots and locations: approximately 100 depots, hubs,
and sends millions of parcels worldwide each year. It is the only
and offi ces
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courier website to offer FedEx services, and it offers fl exible DHL,
City Link, UPS, Home Delivery Network, and Royal Mail services at
low prices.
Parcelforce Worldwide
Address: Solaris Court, Davy Avenue, Knowlhill,
Milton Keynes MK5 8PP
Tel: 01908 687000
Website:
www.parcelforce.com
Contact: Shirley Clancy,
shirley.clancy@
parcelforce.co.uk
Parent company: Royal Mail Group
Speciality: parcel carrier to residential and business addresses
Number of staff: 4,200
Number of depots and locations: 52 depots nationwide
Turnover: £400 million
Average daily volume: 130,000
Peak daily volume: N/A
Maximum weight of packages accepted: 30kg
Company profi le: Parcelforce Worldwide provides a comprehensive
range of reliable express distribution services. It also offers
a service allowing customers to collect their parcels from a
nominated Post Offi ce should there be no one in to accept the
delivery of the parcel. It was the fi rst carrier in the UK to offer a
carbon-neutral parcel service.
Royal Mail
Address: 100 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0HQ
Tel: 08457 950 950
Website:
www.royalmail.com
Contact:
contact@royalmail.com
Year founded: 1635
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