Royal Mail

Royal Mail's DM business faces enough challenges without denying it data assetsMarketing WeekDespite the direction of travel being against DM, it still represents a significant and growing, in terms of its share of revenue generated, part of Royal Mail's business. It has the potential to be even more potent when …

Design Week Royal Mail announces five-year programme of WWI stampsDesign WeekThe Royal Mail has announced a five-year programme of stamps commemorating the First World War. Set. Hat-Trick Design has designed the series, which will be released in sets of six annually every year until 2018. In the first set of …

CITY A.M. Royal Mail share price: Privatised postie wins two-year London contractiNVEZZiNVEZZ.com, Tuesday, March 18: Royal Mail (LON:RMG) has won a two-year contract to collect and deliver bulk mail for borough councils across London, the postal services group announced yesterday. The deal is the first of its kind and will …

Postcode database sale to Royal Mail a “mistake”The Information DailySome government data sets are of huge direct value to the economy, the committee says that the Postcode Address File (PAF) was included in the sale of Royal Mail to boost the share price at flotation. Bernard Jenkin, Chair of the …

Royal Mail has been awarded a two-year contract to collect and deliver important council documents for 14 London boroughs. More: continued here

Northampton Herald and Post Royal Mail make changes to the way letters and parcels are delivered in KetteringNorthampton Herald and PostRoyal Mail is making some changes to the way it delivers mail in Kettering over the next few weeks. Postmen and women will be using delivery methods such as vans …

Telegraph.co.uk MPs criticise inclusion of postal data in mail sell-offTelegraph.co.ukIt claimed the PAF's disposal to the private sector for what it described as “short-term gain” in last year's Royal Mail flotation was an “unacceptable and unnecessary consequence of privatisation” that could hold back economic innovation and growth. More: continued here

Sale of Royal Mail postcode data was a 'mistake'ComputerworldUK… be made open and accessible as a “national asset”. It branded the sale of the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF) during the privatisation of the postal service in October as a “mistake”, and said that it should have been retained …

Ministers rapped over database saleAol MoneyIt said the PAF's disposal to the private sector for "short-term gain" in last year's Royal Mail flotation was an "unacceptable and unnecessary consequence of privatisation" which could hold back economic innovation and growth. Committee chairman … More: continued here

Ministers criticised for sale of postcode databaseBBC NewsThe inclusion of a valuable database of postcodes and addresses in the Royal Mail flotation has been criticised by an influential group of MPs. The Public Administration Committee said the Postcode Address File (PAF) was a national asset and should not … More: continued …