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Trading as Royal Mail, and continuing to serve as the UK's designated Universal Service Provider, the company operated through two divisions: UKPIL (UK Parcels, International & Letters) 'Royal Mail's core UK and international parcels and letter delivery businesses under the Royal Mail and Pacelforce Worldwide brands' and GLS (General Logistics ...
The company was known as German Parcel when it was founded in 1989 by Rico Back, formed by bringing together twenty-five freight forwarders. [2] Ten years later it was acquired by Royal Mail Group, which used it to form a new holding company: Global Logistics Systems (GLS).
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.
International Distribution Services plc (formerly Royal Mail Limited, Royal Mail plc and International Distributions Services plc) is a British company providing postal and courier services. The UK government initially retained a 30% stake in the company, [ 3 ] but sold its remaining shares in 2015. [ 4 ]
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In the United States in November 2012, the purchase price was $2.20 [6] USD; however, the US Postal Service discontinued sales of IRCs on 27 January 2013 due to declining demand. [7] Britain's Royal Mail also stopped selling IRCs on 31 December 2011, citing minimal sales and claiming that the average post office sold less than one IRC per year.
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The service became quickly popular: for UPS the number of packages tracked on the web increased from 600 a day in 1995 [9] to 3.3 million a day in 1999. [10] On-line package tracking became available for all major carrier companies, and was improved by the emergence of websites that offered consolidated tracking for different mail carriers. [11]