Sentence examples for parcel operations from inspiring English sources

BIEK, a German association of private parcel operations joined in the complaint three years later, stating that without the state support, Deutsche Post would not have been able to survive in the commercial parcels sector.

Royal Mail's parcel operations have suffered from intense competition since the group was privatised last year.

The new sorting machines, Mr. Mullahey said, will occupy the space vacated by the military mail operation, with fewer jobs, the same fate he fears for the parcel operation if it, too, is replaced by the machines, as the plan the postal service issued this summer proposes.

The parcels operation has already been fiercely shrunk.

Although it has returned to profit, its letters business is in what many would see as terminal decline, because of the unstoppable rise of assorted forms of electronic communications, and its healthier parcels operation is subject to serious competition.

A case study investigating current parcel delivery operations in central London identified the scale of the challenge facing the last-mile parcel delivery driver, highlighting the importance of walking which can account for 62% of the total vehicle round time and 40% of the total round distance in the operations studied.

Al Qaeda's branch in the Arabian Peninsula recently claimed on a Web site that the October parcel bomb operation cost just $4,200.

Other large acquisitions include Sweden's ASG in August 1999 and the parcel and logistics operations of the Netherlands' Royal Nedlloyd in March 1999.

"My understanding is it's part and parcel in co-operation between countries.

"Most top drama programs in the country have a summer Shakespeare festival or a professional theater that is part and parcel of their operation," Simon said in an interview.

In the 1980s, there were fewer new definitions, and companies began to accept that their business and social interests should be part and parcel of their overall operations; and were subsequently more responsive in this connection.