TNT Post triples its Birmingham letter count in a year to 25 million
Benefits of postal competition now enjoyed by 90 Birmingham based TNT Post customers
11 December 2008
TNT Post today announces it is on target to handle an annualised volume of 25 million mail items in Birmingham alone by the end of this year, with figures tripling since the end of 2007. This extraordinary growth is a result of a host of new business wins in the area, which have seen TNT Post more than double its Birmingham customer base from 40 to 90 customers in the last 12 months.
TNT Post's Midlands division provides a range of postal services to organisations across the whole of the region - stretching from Birmingham to Leicester and Ipswich. With its Birmingham customer base accountable for more than a third of the region's volumes, TNT Post's Midlands division is predicted to handle 69 million mail items this year; exceeding 2007 figures for the area by 153 per cent.
TNT Post's success in Birmingham and across the entire region is supported by the increasing number of SMEs attracted to the cost effective TNT Post solution which is tailored to meet the needs of organisations with ad hoc or low volumes of mail. In Birmingham alone, TNT Post now sees mail volumes for its SME customers reaching 1.3 million items a week, defying recent concerns that SMEs are not benefiting from the liberalisation of the postal market in 2006.
TNT Post now has more than 2000 SME customers across the UK which are serviced by its five regional offices. TNT Post's low volume mailers in Birmingham include OnStream, Partnerships for Learning, Dignity Funerals and Drive Assist, all of which are now accessing the benefits, service levels and cost savings enjoyed by larger organisations as a result of the liberalised postal market.
Additionally, TNT Post in the Midlands has launched TNT-it, a new service for SMEs which has been trialled in Birmingham, Northampton and Nottingham. TNT-it allows users to send letters directly from their PC to TNT Post's print, fulfilment and delivery facilities and with plans to roll the service out to other regions later this year.
Peter Lawton, managing director of Partnerships for Learning, a TNT Post customer in Birmingham commented:
"TNT Post is enabling organisations, which might send low volumes of mail, to benefit from postal competition like never before and Partnerships for Learning can certainly vouch for that. Before the market liberalised, postage prices were fixed and we were unable to reduce our postal costs. Now, thanks to competition in the market, we have been able to source a discounted price on service without compromising on quality or our customer service."
TNT Post's 2000 strong SME customer base across the UK and its predicted annualised mailing volumes for SMEs in Birmingham and the Midlands alone, demonstrates reassuring progress in this sector. This is despite the initial findings of the recent Postal Services Sector Review which suggested that the liberalisation of the postal industry has provided no significant benefit to SMEs. However, TNT Post's rapid growth in this area demonstrates that it has the capability and expertise to offer SMEs a mailing solution that is not only good on price but is reliable, easy to use, innovative and adaptable to SME requirements.
Nick Wells, chief executive, TNT Post, comments:
"By using TNT Post, all businesses, whether large or small, can benefit from postal liberalisation. Our growing success in Birmingham is testament to the level of service, flexibility and value for money we can provide local SME businesses. These businesses have not been able to make savings like this on post before and we are delighted to be providing them with a service which caters for their exact needs. Competition in the postal market is delivering benefits but we can do more if we have the right regulatory environment and a level competitive playing field. We look forward to announcing further initiatives designed for the SME community in the future."
