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Ile Post Office this week iled a string of improvets to its Datapost express ice which it describes as ajor assault on the courier Eet".
reed, safeguards and have been improved, ig up to what Datapost [ John Payne says is "a ,?.r deal for customers". .ures of the improvements efore 10am next morning Pcry is now standard for thirds of the country. his delivery standard is :ed by consequential loss ranee cover if delivery is — up to £10,000 per pack
'rices for heavier packages cut — everything above is cheaper. The carriage .ge for a 10kg parcel is cut £12.25 to £11.70. (g10.70 m to 5kg plus 20p for each tional kg). International most rates also cut. :onsequential loss innee cover extended to Inational Datapost.
'aster transit times on !notional Datapost into ope — new dedicated airt used to feed into a new opean hub at Brussels inid of Rotterdam. International Datapost is the quickest growing sector, doubling its volume in less than two years. West Germany, Switzerland and Norway have just been added to the countries whose postal administrations use the new European hub in Brussels.
Moves centre
In mid-May, Datapost moves its international handling centre from central London to Heathrow airport, putting back the cut-off time for parcels collection from lunchtime to the end of the working day.