Royal Mail

Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier has called for a new debate on funding of the operator’s Universal Service obligation after it posted its first ever loss. More: continued here

Earnings fall at Royal MailEdinburgh Evening News, UK –1 hour agoPROFITS at Royal Mail have fallen by almost a third to £162 million, its lowest figure for five years. The letters business recorded a loss of £3m after a … More: continued here

Royal Mail's'one price goes anywhere' postal service losing money …This is London, UK –6 minutes agoThe "universal" Royal Mail service, which delivers letters anywhere in the country for one price, has made a loss for the first time in 160 years. … More: continued here

Investment Markets Royal Mail losses widenInvestment Markets, UK –8 minutes agoIn the last 12 months, Royal Mail has experienced a decline in the amount of letters posted which has driven its regulated letters and parcels business into … More: continued here

Business In BriefGlasgow Daily Record, UK –55 minutes agoTHE Royal Mail's profits have fallen by almost a third to £162million, the lowest figure for five years, it was announced yesterday. … More: continued here

Forcing businesses to use Welsh would be unhelpfulic Wales, United Kingdom –22 minutes agoOne of those affected, the Royal Mail, said it “did not expect the new arrangements to cause us any significant problems”, a sign that this is not exactly a … More: continued here

KILL THE COMPETITION: £9bn Energy bid … Repossessions soar …Times Online, UK –4 minutes agoThe Independent: Royal Mail is to call for price controls to be lifted after revealing that it lost £200 million on its regulated letters and parcels … More: continued here

Degree may be lost in the postSouth Manchester Reporter, UK –18 hours agoA STUDENT claims a Royal Mail backlog could cost him a grade in his final exams. Rob Cooper, a law with politics student at Manchester University, … More: continued here

Leyland postal training firm wins Postcomm licenceThis Is Lancashire, UK –17 hours agoPeoplePost will join existing licence holders Royal Mail, TNT, DHL and UK Mail in the recently liberalised marketplace. Postal licences are valid for a … More: continued here

ITN Royal Mail calls for end to price controls after profits collapseIndependent, UK –3 hours agoBy David Prosser, Deputy Business Editor Royal Mail's chief executive, Adam Crozier, is to call for price controls in the market to be lifted after …End to daily rounds debated as Royal Mail drops into redScotsmanRoyal Mail …