Royal Mail

A book of first-class stamps will rise to £10 for the first time in October 2023, when Royal Mail increases prices. A first-class stamp for a standard letter will rise by 15 pence from October 2 to £1.25. It means a book of eight stamps, currently costing £8.80, will now …

Are companies that innovate more productive, or could it be that they’re more innovative because they have productivity nailed?  Royal Mail’s head of international products, Emily Reed, makes the case that both can be true at once. And, with the value of UK exports rising – jumping 19.5% to £851.6bn …

The universal postal service requires Royal Mail to deliver letters to every address in the UK, six days a week at a uniform price, and parcels five days a week. Mole Valley District Council leader Stephen Cooksey said he had written to Postmasters in Dorking and Leatherhead to ask when …

ONGOING problems being experienced by Royal Mail are continuing to affect the Island’s postal deliveries, but Jersey Post has reported some recent improvement to the service. Reports from Islanders about incoming post from the UK taking five or six days to arrive surfaced last month, a few weeks after the …

Furious residents have branded Royal Mail deliveries in parts of Nuneaton a ‘joke’. They say that pockets of the town have been left without mail for weeks and, as a result, some have missed important hospital appointments and bills. One area especially hard hit has been Galley Common, particularly around …

Royal Mail is hoping to end Saturday letter deliveries after the postal regulator called for evidence on how its services might change as the popularity of paper post continues to fall. Ofcom, which has previously estimated Royal Mail could save up to £225m annually by dropping Saturday delivery and conducted …

Royal Mail has announced on Tuesday that the price of a first class stamp will rise by 15p from October to £1.25. This comes as the company has said they are facing “increasing cost pressures” amid a “challenged economic environment.” “We understand the economic challenges that many of our customers …

Saturday deliveries could be axed if the Royal Mail has its way – with regulator Ofcom saying the idea is “under review”. Britain’s postal service is facing a radical overhaul next month, with the cost of a first-class stamp set to jump by 15 pence to £1.25 from October 2. …

“However, the number of letters we send and receive has declined by 46% over the last decade, as people and businesses increasingly use digital alternatives. And as the number of letters delivered each day falls, the average cost of delivery is increasing,” it said. Source link

UK communications regulator Ofcom announced plans to review the nation’s universal postal service on Tuesday, as a result of the changing needs and habits of postal users. Ofcom said the universal postal service, underpinned by the Postal Services Act of 2011, mandated International Distributions Services subsidiary Royal Mail to deliver …