Carrier considering scrapping flights for ferry The Isle of Man Post Office is working with Royal Mail to review the implications of removing the dedicated aircraft that brings letters and parcels to the Island. The mail carrier announced it’s considering scrapping daily delivery flights to Jersey and the Island, and …
Read More »Royal Mail parent blames $1.3 billion loss on strikes, lagging productivity
Reporting a $1.3 billion loss for 2022-2023 on Thursday, International Distributions Services said the poor performance was due to industrial action by postal workers in its Royal Mail division and a failure to boost productivity. File photo by Andy Rain/EPA-EFE May 18 (UPI) — The parent company of Britain’s Royal …
Read More »Royal Mail confirms it will get more posties to deliver in Nuneaton amid more delays
Royal Mail has confirmed it will get more posties to deliver across Nuneaton amid reports of more delays. One resident contacted CoventryLive to say her dad, who lives in the St Nicolas Park area of town, had no mail delivered for three weeks – then it all turned up at …
Read More »Royal Mail: improving quality of service is “top priority”
Royal Mail has again called for “major reform” of the USO after posting a £1bn operating loss – reduced to a mere £419m, or £8m a week – on an adjusted basis. Parent company International Distributions Services (IDS) posted its preliminary results for the 52 weeks ending 26 March …
Read More »Royal Mail considers dropping delivery flights to the Isle of Man
In its ‘Consultation on changes to the Postal Schemes 2023’ document, Royal Mail said that as the Isle of Man, like Jersey and Guernsey, is not part of the UK, it was ‘not covered by the domestic requirements under Ofcom’s Designated Universal Service Condition, which include providing a next day …
Read More »Snapshot: Glowing GLS still subsidising Royal Mail?
ID 47484044 © Exopixel | Dreamstime.com Sell-side research house Bernstein today ran the rule over International Distributions Services (IDS), the holding company controlling Royal Mail and logistics arm GLS. Before you get going, the scale of the problem is here below, sourced from IDS’s statement: “Group reported operating loss of …
Read More »Strike chaos leads Royal Mail to £1bn loss
Group-wide loss of £748mn £539mn hit to carrying value Royal Mail has reported an operating loss of over £1bn, after 12 months of strikes and inflationary pressures. International Distributions Services (IDS) as a whole – which also includes profitable European courier GLS – incurred a loss of £748mn. UK operations …
Read More »Royal Mail blames strikes for £419m full-year loss
Royal Mail posted an annual adjusted operating loss of £419 million, its parent International Distributions Services has said, after a year marred by strikes. The results showed that the wider group, which includes Royal Mail UK and GLS, its international operation, reported an adjusted operating loss of £71 million for …
Read More »Royal Mail strikes push owner into red after costing £1m a day
Strike action cost Royal Mail more than £1m every day over the past 12 months, with the disruption contributing to an annual loss of more than £1bn for the group’s owner. International Distributions Services (IDS) revealed Royal Mail swung to an operating loss of £1.04bn for the year to March …
Read More »strikes at Royal Mail hinder performance
International Distribution Services (IDS) has reported full-year revenue of £12.0bn, down 5.3%. The drop was driven by performance at Royal Mail, where revenue fell 13%, as it struggled due to industrial action and a decline in volumes across parcels and letters. GLS saw revenue rise 10.2%, as higher prices more …
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