TNT's Supapost takes on Post Office
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TNT will launch its Supapost Service against the Post Office in the next three to four weeks.
"We are really going to get stuck into the small packages and envelope market for the commercial sector," director and general manager Alan Jones told CM.
The service will be billed as the free enterprise alternative to the Post Office. It will use vans as well as motorcycles, and will offer immediate local delivery and same day delivery throughout the UK.
Late consignments will be deliverd by 10.30 the next morning. And people will not have to queue the way they do at post offices, says Jones.
There is speculation that the service will be launched with more than 400 trucks, but Jones will not specify the level of investment.
The private sector may only carry urgent documents at a minimum charge of abiding by the Royal Mail's monopoly of postal services. But the definition of an urgent document is open to argument.
TNT got a bloody nose from the PO whets it launched its home delivery service, Homefast, three years ago, but had to close it within a month after a strong commercial reaction from the PO.
The PO will find the much more diverse market at which Supapost is aimed more difficult to defend.