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The Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company. It is owned by International Distribution Services. It operates the brands Royal Mail (letters and parcels) and Parcelforce Worldwide (parcels). The company used the name Consignia for a brief period in the early 2000s but changed it afterwards.
Royal Mail must deliver letters six days a week to all 32 million addresses in the UK for the price of a stamp (James Manning/PA) Royal Mail has long been urging the Government and Ofcom to review ...
Royal Mail could ditch its near-daily deliveries of letters as the centuries-old British institution attempts to modernize its service and plug a growing hole in its finances. Royal Mail is on the ...
People in Poringland, Norfolk, say hospital appointments have been missed and deliveries made late. ... Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail.
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]
Starting in May 2022, postal workers in the United Kingdom undertook a series of strikes and industrial disputes. They principally involved members of Unite and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at both Royal Mail and the Post Office. The Royal Mail strikes ended in July 2023 after workers agreed to a three-year pay deal with Royal Mail. [1]
Royal Mail reported its operating loss for the 2022–2023 financial year was £1.04 billion, down 518% from a £250 million profit a year earlier, which the company attributed to disputes with ...
The General Post Office (GPO) [1] was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. [2] Established in England in the 17th century, the GPO was a state monopoly covering the dispatch of items from a specific sender to a specific receiver (which was to be of great importance when new forms of communication were invented); it was overseen by a ...