Could Tesco be an alternative to the Royal Mail and Post Office?
Posted October 8th by Colin Boyd in Post Office, Tesco
With the current postal strikes damaging small businnesses everyone is looking for a resonablily priced alternative.
Could Tesco provide it?
This isn’t as pie in the sky as you may think.
Tesco have a store close to everyone that could be used as a collection point, they already have transportation between stores and hubs and the key to the operations, there home delivery service could double as a post delivery service.
It’s not as crazy as you may think, I’m sure Tesco would love to have a service where they could advertise directly into every home, maybe they could make people use Tesco envelopes, blue and white strips of course.
Any other thought are welcome.
As you will see in my previous post there is no alternative to the Royal Mail, although it’s not looking fit for a queen at the moment.
Garry Moore
January 27th, 2009
we are heavily dependant on the postal service as we are growing into a sizeable print management business. A great deal of our orders, invoices, cheques, proofs are required to arrive at a certain time from posting. our business is very time sensitive and the present mail service from our area of Nottingham is nothing less than abismal. Our suppliers don’t receive orders, we dont receive orders, and we have cheques for our suppliers and from our customers missing on a weekly basis!
Jackie
October 10th, 2009
I think the idea of Tesco or any of the other major supermarkets taking on the post service is a fantastic idea. Personally I believe the actions of the postal workers is ill advised and with unemployment so high they may be better getting on with their job. I have had parcels going missing in the last few weeks at a rate of 40% and 10% of those delivered are damaged! I also very nearly missed out on an important appointment because they lost that letter too. I am very disappointed and was hoping to find an alternative before my business crumbles under the weight of compensation claims.