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The communications regulator has proposed cutting letter deliveries with second-class post arriving every second day and no longer on Saturdays. Ofcom said Royal Mail customers’ postal needs would be met by keeping first class deliveries six days a week. It also outlined provisional plans to reduce goals for the delivery …

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Royal Mail is set to be allowed to deliver second-class letters only on alternate weekdays and not on Saturdays under proposals to shake-up postal service rules announced the industry regulator, it has been reported today (Thursday). Royal Mail could scrap second class letter deliveries on Saturdays and reduce the service …

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Cheltenham households may see a cut to their postal service from next week. The town’s delivery office is taking part in a ‘new delivery model’ trial which could result in an end to second class deliveries at weekends. Instead, second class mail would arrive over the course of ‘non-consecutive’ weekdays. …

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30 January 2025, 09:19 | Updated: 30 January 2025, 09:24 Royal Mail is to be allowed to ditch second class deliveries. Picture: Alamy Royal Mail is set to be allowed to ditch Saturday deliveries for second class letters under plans being put forward by Ofcom. The regulator said that after …

Royal Mail could soon be allowed to stop Saturday deliveries for second-class letters, as part of Ofcom’s proposed changes that include relaxed postal delivery targets. After a period of consultation, the regulator has tentatively decided that reducing second-class letter services to every other weekday, while keeping six-day-a-week deliveries for first-class …