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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Royal Mail has put forward proposals that would see first-class mail kept as a six-days-a-week service, but second-class letter deliveries cut dramatically. It …

International Distributions Services PLC unit Royal Mail on Wednesday proposed a change to its UK letter delivery offering, as it grapples with weaker volumes, in a move which could see ‘fewer than 1,000 voluntary redundancies’. The measures could trim the net cost of the UK postal universal service operation by …

Second-class deliveries under scrutiny Possible cost savings of £300mn Royal Mail has proposed halving second-class letter deliveries and slowing down business mail, in a bid to save £300mn a year. The UK courier, which is part of International Distributions Services (IDS), wants to deliver all non-first class letters every other weekday, …

Closing summary: Royal Mail to make ‘drastic cut’ to second-class deliveries Royal Mail’s plan to end daily second-class deliveries would be a “drastic cut” that would hit many small businesses, according to the Federation of Small Businesses, a lobby group. However, the group also said that it was reasonable for …

ROYAL Mail is investigating an issue with barcoded stamps after hundreds of Brits were wrongly fined to receive letters. People have been slapped with £5 penalties on collecting post as the stamps on them were ruled as counterfeit by the postal service. 4 Barcoded stamps replaced the traditional form in …

The plans, being put forward to the industry watchdog, would also see second-class deliveries reduced to every other weekday. In its submission to Ofcom’s consultation on the future of the universal postal service, Royal Mail said its proposals would see all non first-class letter deliveries – including second class and …

The owner of Royal Mail has asked the industry regulator to let it reduce deliveries of second-class letters to just two or three days a week, cutting nearly 1,000 jobs and saving £300m a year in the process. Responding to Ofcom’s consultation on reforming the universal service rules amid declining …

Members of the public have complained they had to pay £5 penalties to collect post because the stamps were deemed to be counterfeit, the Daily Telegraph reported. The issue has emerged since the postal service switched entirely to a new barcoded system last July. Postmasters have said the allegedly fake …

Greetings card retailers have urged the communications industry regulator to cut a midweek delivery day rather than Saturday if it must reduce Britain’s letter services, as a consultation on postal reforms closes. The Greeting Card Association (GCA) has said that stopping delivery of standard letters on Tuesday or Wednesday would …

[Getty Images] Royal Mail wants to maintain its six-day-a-week service for first class letters under new proposals for reform. Regulator Ofcom had suggested it could reduce the number of delivery days from six to five or even three per week, as it struggles with heavy losses. Under Royal Mail’s proposals, …