Axing Royal Mail Saturday deliveries will hit our sales, says Post Office | Business

The two demerged core components of the national postal network have clashed over the future of the universal service obligation.

The Post Office has called out Royal Mail’s demand to cut Saturday postal deliveries as a move to an inferior service that would hurt businesses and households around the country — and the Post Office’s own shaky finances.

Royal Mail is the privatised postal delivery company which at flotation in 2013 committed to the universal service obligation of six-day deliveries, one price goes anywhere. After record profits during the boom in online shopping and home deliveries of the pandemic lockdowns, it is now reporting losses of more than £1 million a day

It is lobbying the government on behalf of its shareholders led by the