TNT: next stop high street?
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TNT DESPATCH POST, the private sector's main rival for the Post Office's parcel service, may expand into high street addresses.
Its 400th filling station collection point, at Cheltenham, opens on November 11, and a further 150 are expected to be open by the end of next year.
All are in tilling stations, but future plans to extend the idea of having a "corner shop" for TNT's world-wide parcels service could include shops in town centres.
Newsagents and dry-cleaners are being looked at as possible future collection points for the Despatch Post service.
That would take the company's services closer to the public as well as to the business users who have already helped give TNT what is reckoned now to be 15 per cent of the UK parcel market.
TNT is reluctant to quote many figures for its detailed performance, but Despatch Post manager Robert Croft says his division has increased its revenue by 30 per cent.
The company is also strengthening its marketing effort by using a running man logo.
• TNT has started a threeday door-to-door delivery service from Britain to Hungary in conjunction with TNT-1pee, its European subsidiary.