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Royal Mail should only deliver second-class letters and parcels every other weekday and not on Saturdays to protect the future of the UK's postal industry, the industry regulator has proposed. ...
Regulator Ofcom is due to report back this week on its review of the universal postal service provided by Royal Mail.
The bid comes at a crucial time for Royal Mail, which put forward plans to regulator Ofcom earlier this month to scrap second-class letter deliveries on Saturdays and cut the service to every ...
The scheme was presented as offering consumers greater choice for receiving mail when not at home, that is if Royal Mail deliver items as per their stated contractual obligations and was said to follow Royal Mail research from a 'delivery to neighbour' trial across six areas of the UK that showed widespread consumer satisfaction. [135]
Parcelforce Worldwide is a provider of express delivery services covering 99.6% of the world's population, with over 6,500 employees. [3] Its European delivery partner, General Logistics Systems (GLS), is also a subsidiary of International Distribution Services and delivers more than one million parcels a day across 34 countries in Europe. [4]
After the opening up of the industry, competitors such as Whistl and UK Mail found their place offering business postal solutions. These companies, despite being competitors to Royal Mail, hand over sorted mail to the Royal Mail for "last mile delivery" due to the sheer dominance the latter hold in a process called 'Down Stream Access'. [3]
Chief executive Simon Thompson vowed to do ‘whatever it takes’ to turn the group around after interim results showed it fell to a £219 million loss. Royal Mail asks Government to cut Saturday ...
The British Royal Mail's 1st Class, as it is styled, is simply a priority option over 2nd Class, at a slightly higher cost. Royal Mail aims (but does not guarantee) to deliver all 1st Class letters the day after posting. [71] In Austria priority delivery mail is called Prio, in Switzerland A-Post. [72]