Royal Mail has recently announced plans to expand its parcels business in the UK and overseas. Under the plans, Royal Mail will open a new processing centre in Chorley, Lancashire in the autumn of 2013 and two new depots will also be added in Cornwall and Hampshire. A welcome new 1,000 jobs will be created. In
Labour Party MP and shadow postal affairs minister Ian Murray has obtained figures through a Freedom of Information request, showing that 6,453 post box collections were lost in the year up to the beginning of March. • In the 12 months to March 2012 Royal Mail cut 9,689 collections from some post boxes, while adding 3,236 at others
Sat Nav problems for people searching for an unfamiliar address could be a thing of the past as posties have started mapping addresses in East Anglia. The pilot project commenced in July with postmen and postwomen using special satellite receivers to record GPS longitude, latitude and altitude data for every property in the region. Royal Mail says
British consumers are willing to sacrifice the Universal Service - including daily postal deliveries and the two tier first and second class services - so long as Royal Mail's future remains secure. These are the findings from new research conducted by Consumer Focus (national consumer watchdog) which looked at how Royal Mail’s postal
Charges for sending second class large letters and small parcels will be capped, the regulator Ofcom recently confirmed. Price increases on stamps for large letters and small parcels up to 2kg will be capped in line with CPI inflation to “protect small businesses and vulnerable customers”. • Standard ‘Letters’ are items up to a length of
Norway and Denmark continue to have the highest domestic letter rates in Europe, according to the latest annual survey by Deutsche Post DHL. But the UK has seen the highest hike in its ranking since last year. Royal Mail’s 30% increase in its first class letter rate has seen Britain’s ranking jump
The chairman of Royal Mail has been reappointed for three years through to March 2015. UK postal affairs minister Norman Lamb said that Donald Brydon had proved since his first appointment as Royal Mail chairman in March 2009 that he had the qualities needed to lead the Group through a “challenging period”. Lamb said of Brydon: “I’m
In celebration of the life and works of Charles Dickens, the Royal Mail recently revealed a sneak preview of two stamps – officially launching in June – to celebrate the bicentenary of the novelist’s birth. The two stamps feature illustrations from his first novel, The Pickwick Papers (originally serialised and
Sets of "everyday" first class stamps displaying the Olympic and Paralympic logos will go on sale next week in shops around the UK. They will be available from thousands of retailers and all post offices in books of six from 5 January. This type of stamp - known as the
OFCOM, the new postal services regulator recently issued a consultation about how postal services should be regulated over the next seven years. Concerns about the potential impacts of these proposals prompted the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) along with POSTAF (Postal Trade Association) to host a meeting of all key stakeholders