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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).
However, a Sunday Times undercover investigation [14] [15] concluded that the tracked parcels were being prioritised by Royal Mail in breach of company policy. This investigation also lines up with claims made by postal workers to the BBC [ 16 ] and hundreds of complaints made to the BEIS committee Chair, Darren Jones.
Picket lines have been mounted outside Royal Mail delivery and sorting offices after workers launched a 48-hour strike in a worsening dispute over pay. ... lives to save their jobs and the service ...
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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]
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Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre (HWDC) is a sorting office for inbound and outbound international mail operated by Royal Mail. Located close to Heathrow Airport , the HWDC is situated in the town of Langley , Berkshire , near Slough , and began operations in 2003.
The Parcel Post service of Royal Mail was started in 1883, [6] though parcel services operated by the railway companies, later Red Star Parcels and British Road Services, were also heavily used for many decades. Royal Mail was split into three divisions in 1986 [6] and in August 1990, Royal Mail Parcels was rebranded as Parcelforce.