[ad_1] If you’ve ever rummaged through a box of old postcards at an antiques fair, you might have noticed not only the quaint images from the 1890s or 1900s, but the extraordinary messages on the back: “Dear Cissie, Elsie and I will come for tea today. Will arrive about 4.30. Yours, Edith.” Today! Incredibly, they…
[ad_1] Royal Mail has warned up to 1,000 jobs could be axed under bombshell plans put forward to slash its second-class letter delivery service. The company has outlined cuts to non-first class letters by delivering them only on every other weekday – and scrapping Saturday deliveries entirely. The postal giant said the shake-up could save…
[ad_1] First and second class stamps. Photo James Manning/PA Wire Royal Mail is reportedly investigating claims that people have been wrongly fined after being sent letters with new barcoded stamps. 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…
[ad_1] Royal Mail, which was split from the Post Office and privatised a decade ago, is legally obliged to deliver a one-price-goes-anywhere postal service, which means it has to deliver letters six days per week, Monday to Saturday, and parcels Monday to Friday. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Royal Mail has launched a probe into counterfeit copies of its new barcoded stamps amid concerns customers are being wrongly fined to receive their mail. Many people have complained of being forced to pay a £5 fine to receive a letter because the stamp on the envelope was deemed to be fake. As reported…
[ad_1] 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 comes as part of…
[ad_1] 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 £300 million per year….
[ad_1] 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, as opposed to Monday…
[ad_1] 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 to take…
[ad_1] 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 July last yearCredit: Image…