Ofcom has laid out reforms to Universal Service that will enable Royal Mail to change the frequency of second-class post. In an announcement today (10 July), the regulator said UK postal users would have extra protections against long delivery delays under the reforms, which it said will enable Royal Mail …
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Royal Mail has been given the go-ahead to scrap second-class letter deliveries on Saturdays from the end of this month, the regulator has announced. Under reforms due to the decline of postal letters, rising prices and long delays, Royal Mail will shift to delivering second-class letters on alternate weekdays Monday …
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The regulator said that from July 28, Royal Mail will be able to axe the six-day-a-week service for second-class letters, but will maintain Monday to Saturday deliveries for first-class post. It said it would keep the target for second-class letters to arrive within three working days despite changing deliveries to …
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Stamp Market Tips by Henry Gitner and Rick Miller Austria is a landlocked country in central Europe. Its people speak German, and it is the only major German-speaking nation that managed to avoid German unification in the 19th century. Austria issued its first stamps in 1850 while it still comprised …
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A new housing estate in Glasgow is still an ‘island’ with no shop, post box or frequent bus service according to a councillor. Sighthill in the north of the city is eventually expected to have 1000 newly built homes, after high rise flats were demolished more than a decade ago. …
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Welcome to my Royal Newsletter. Many things that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have said and done since they quit Britain five years ago have left members of the Royal Household shocked. They include their accusations of racism in their Oprah Winfrey interview, to Meghan’s recent posting of a …
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Origin, the UK cross-media measurement solution from ISBA has moved into its expanded availability (EA) phase following completion of its beta trials incorporating linear TV, online video and online display. respectively. These trials involved over thirty of the UK’s largest advertisers and their agency partners. The EA release will initially allow …
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Peter Phillips and his girlfriend Harriet Sperling put on an elegant display as they arrived at Wimbledon today. NHS nurse Harriet, 45, lovingly gazed at her partner as they posed for photographs before watching the live sporting action at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London. King …
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Peter Phillips and his girlfriend Harriet Sperling put on an elegant display as they arrived at Wimbledon today. NHS nurse Harriet, 45, lovingly gazed at her partner as they posed for photographs before watching the live sporting action at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London. King …
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Wimbledon is getting to the business end of the deal…which means the faces in the Royal Box are increasingly high profile, with Queen Camilla at the All England Club on the tenth day of play. The first match on Centre Court sees Russian number 7 seed Mirra Andreeva take on Belinda Bencic …
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