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Consumer and Small Business (C2C) Parcels in the UKMaterials Handling World MagazineThese look to capitalise on opportunities from two big trends: market growth driven by home shopping and changes in the Royal Mail's strategy ahead of its privatisation. Apex Insight's research finds that, of the two, it is the Royal …

Socialist Worker Post workers ballot begins in the fight against Royal Mail privatisationSocialist WorkerThe CWU union has opened a consultative ballot to 112,000 members in Royal Mail over privatisation, a mail boycott, pay and non-cooperation with Royal Mail. The union is asking members to vote yes. It says that if …

Bromsgrove Standard Royal Mail first class service misses benchmarkParcel2Go.comRoyal Mail missed its target for the proportion of first class mail which it delivered on time during the 2012/13 financial year –but says that its figure of 92.4 per cent of letters delivered on the next working day was just short …

Royal Mail strategy key in C2C parcels marketLogistics ManagerRoyal Mail's strategy in the run-up to privatisation could have a significant impact on other carriers, according to a study by Apex Insight. Consumers and small businesses have traditionally used Royal Mail. However, the growth of C2C parcels market … More: continued …

Telegraph.co.uk Banks fined over Libor to advise Royal MailTelegraph.co.ukUBS and Barclays have been appointed as senior advisers on the stock market listing of Royal Mail, which could earn the scandal-hit lenders millions of pounds in fees, less than a year after they were fined nearly £1.3bn for attempting to rig …

UK government appoints lead banks for Royal Mail listingReutersLONDON May 29 (Reuters) – The British government has appointed Goldman Sachs and UBS as the lead banks to run a planned London stock market listing of Royal Mail. The initial public offering is expected to take place later this year and …

Bromsgrove Standard Olympics, weather, modernisation hit Royal Mail's First Class performancePost and ParcelRoyal Mail missed its delivery targets for First Class mail during the last year, partly as the result of disruption caused by the London Olympics. The UK's state-owned postal operator did meet its Second Class mail delivery target, …

Purple Ronnie teams with Royal MailLicensing.biz"We wanted to do something really special to celebrate Father's Day and give people the chance to say thank you to their dad with the wonderful words and humour of Purple Ronnie," said Stephen Agar, MD of consumer and network access at Royal Mail. More: …

Royal Mail Hotel takes out Gourmet Traveller Travel Awarde-Travel Blackboard (press release)The Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, received the 'Expert Panel Award – Best Hotel/Resort Dining', at the 2013 Gourmet Traveller Travel Awards, held at Crown, Melbourne on Tuesday May 28. Set in Western Victoria, the Royal Mail Hotel was recognised …

Selling off the Royal Mail is controversial enough without the Government throwing yet more petrol bombs through its letterbox. But that's what ministers have done by selecting three banks most associated with the worst excesses of the financial crash – Goldman Sachs, UBS and Barclays – to handle the forthcoming …