The Independent Exclusive: Ofcom to criticise Royal Mail efficiencyThe IndependentShould Ofcom agree, this will undermine Royal Mail's push to enforce new regulation on Whistl and other potential rivals in delivering mail directly to homes and small businesses. Royal Mail's chief executive, Moya Greene, believes Whistl's emergence …Postal shake-up would damage …
Read More »DPD seeks to put Royal Mail under further pressure with hiring – Financial Times
Scotsman DPD seeks to put Royal Mail under further pressure with hiringFinancial TimesThe move is a shot across the bows of recently privatised Royal Mail, which last week blamed a 21 per cent fall in interim operating profits on the retailing giant Amazon's move to deliver more of its own …
Read More »Extra staff drafted in to clear backlog after unofficial postal strike – stv.tv
stv.tv Extra staff drafted in to clear backlog after unofficial postal strikestv.tvRoyal Mail said it was continuing talks with Communications Workers Union (CWU). In order to clear a backlog of deliveries extra staff and managers have been drafted into the depot. Staff who took part in the unofficial strike will …
Read More »Holderness villagers fight plans to turn The Royal Mail pub into a Co-op – Hull Daily Mail
Hull Daily Mail Holderness villagers fight plans to turn The Royal Mail pub into a Co-opHull Daily MailVILLAGERS have vowed to fight plans to demolish a popular Holderness pub and turn it into a supermarket. More than 150 residents packed into Thorngumbald Village Hall for a meeting about the plans …
Read More »Royal Mail may end daily deliveries as profits plummet – Metro
Metro Royal Mail may end daily deliveries as profits plummetMetroAccording to Royal Mail– whose profits have slumped by £74million while shares continue to drop – competing courier services are 'cherry-picking' highly-profitable business contracts while it must deliver to everyone in the country for the same price. More: continued here
Read More »George Kerevan: Ailing Royal Mail can’t hide
I’VE just had a fun experience watching – on my laptop – the progress of my wife’s Christmas present being delivered to our front door (and no, she doesn’t know what it is). More: continued here
Read More »Rivals should be made to deliver daily, and to any address, Royal Mail tells MPs – The Independent
The Independent Rivals should be made to deliver daily, and to any address, Royal Mail tells MPsThe IndependentIn evidence to the Business Select Committee, Royal Mail has called for a new regulatory framework to be imposed on Whistl, formerly TNT Post. The Dutch-owned company has become a significant competitor this …
Read More »Drop in Royal Mail puts FTSE under pressure
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Read More »George Kerevan: Ailing Royal Mail can’t hide – Scotsman
Scotsman George Kerevan: Ailing Royal Mail can't hideScotsmanIt arrived thanks to Interlink, a commercial parcel delivery company that is actually owned by La Poste, the state-owned French equivalent of the Royal Mail. Log on to its website and you can follow the progress of your delivery van on a moving …
Read More »Royal Mail’s Moya Greene should stop whinging and start delivering – Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk Royal Mail's Moya Greene should stop whinging and start deliveringTelegraph.co.ukEven the name – universal service obligation – implies an unwanted burden. And that was certainly the thrust of Moya Greene's complaint this week when, little more than a year after Royal Mail was floated on the stock market, she …
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