Bulk deals in post
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• The Post Office is launching a bulk users' letters service using 80 dedicated trucks and 16 depots.
The Streamline service will be fully operational by April 1993 when all its depots are open, but parts of the scheme are already running and used by major customers such as British Telecom.
Next month Royal Mail takes delivery of fifty 38-tonners for the Streamline service in a order, split equally between Leyland Daf and Seddon Atkinson.
Royal Mail says Streamline will employ 2,000 staff, mostly current employees. The 16 depots include six purpose-built sites at Plymouth, Notting ham, Northampton, Rochester, Bolton and Leeds; the rest are existing locations.
0 In a bid to win former FedEx customers after the US giant's withdrawal from Europe, Parcelforce says it will cut its rates "wherever possible" to match those paid by contract customers of FedEx. And Harrowbased courier Business Post has 'minced Timedoc, a service for urgent document delivery which it says is cheaper than Royal Mail's Datapost.
0 Parcels operator Interlink Express is making another foray into Europe by forming a partnership with 10 European parcels companies, a figure it hopes to double by the end of the year. Interlink's European move comes three years after it lost £.4m in the ill-fated launch of a German distribution operation, which survived only six months. In 1990 it linked with Dutch haulier Wegtransport to deliver parcels in Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg, and this operation continues.
Interlink boss Peter Gent says the new operation will not involve any of the partners in a major investment. The partners will be computer linked.