Tag Archives: Ofcom

By JESSICA CLARK Published: 17:45 EST, 11 January 2025 | Updated: 17:48 EST, 11 January 2025 Royal Mail is to slash postal services across major UK towns and cities next month in the biggest shake up to services in generations, the Mail on Sunday can reveal. Second-class deliveries on Saturdays …

UK equities have been firmly in the crosshair of foreign suitors and private equity buyout specialists throughout 2024. Source link

Amanda Holden has admitted her daring outfit for the Royal Variety Performance could spark Ofcom complaints.  The actress, 53, co-hosted this year’s event with comedian Alan Carr at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The annual fundraising event saw a string of famous faces including Sir Elton John, Ted Lasso‘s Ellie Taylor, and Britain’s …

By ANDY JEHRING Published: 19:04 EST, 13 December 2024 | Updated: 20:39 EST, 13 December 2024 The Royal Mail is struggling with festive demand as workers claim it prioritises Amazon Prime over cards and hospital scans. Posties say sorting offices are the ‘worst in decades’ with letters piling up as …

Royal Mail owner says it cannot rule out job cuts after £120m Budget hit. Source link

Ofcom said Royal Mail won back some of the parcel volumes and revenues it lost the previous year because of industrial action. However, the company … Source link

Royal Mail has declared the cost of first-class stamps will go up by 30p amid ‘very real and urgent’ financial woes in the firm.  From October 7, the price of first-class stamp will stand at £1.65, whilst the cost of second-class stamps won’t budge, staying at 85p. As the amount …

Such a fate would greatly undermine the core purpose of the service. As the Greetings Card Association warns, the proposals appear to take the country “one step closer to the dismantling of a postal service that’s affordable and reliable”.  Some would say it stopped being either of those things some time …

By Jessica Clark Business Reporter Published: 17:38 EDT, 5 September 2024 | Updated: 17:39 EDT, 5 September 2024 Households face losing second-class deliveries on Saturdays. Ofcom yesterday unveiled proposals to let Royal Mail reduce the cheaper post to every other weekday. First-class deliveries would still be six days a week. …

When’s the last time you bought a postage stamp? Granted, to do that you have to locate a post office which will probably be at the back of an off licence, past piles of confectionery, rather than in one of the handsome municipal buildings where they were once to be …