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Erosion of postal delivery service or much needed reform?

The mail arrives at Belmont, Unst. photo: Royal Mail ISLES MP Alistair Carmichael has called on postal regulator Ofcom to reject proposals from Royal Mail to cut back on delivery services. On Wednesday the company published proposals to cut services including changing the delivery of all non first class letters …

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Small businesses and greetings card firms blast ‘drastic’ Royal Mail plan to end daily second class deliveries and cut the 85p-a-letter service to five times a fortnight

Royal Mail has come under fire from small businesses and greetings card firms over plans to slash daily second-class letter deliveries. The company revealed plans yesterday to scrap the deliveries on Saturdays and cut the service to just five times every two weeks.  But critics including the Federation of Small Businesses …

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Communication Workers Union joins regulator Ofcom in review to shelve Royal Mail’s six-day letter delivery service

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced in a September 5 letter to branches its full participation in regulator Ofcom’s review and consultation into the Universal Obligation Service (USO). Ofcom’s position is no mystery regarding the shelving Royal Mail’s statutory obligation to deliver letters to 32 million households across the UK, …

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Ofcom to review Royal Mail’s universal service obligations

UK communications regulator Ofcom announced plans to review the nation’s universal postal service on Tuesday, as a result of the changing needs and habits of postal users. Ofcom said the universal postal service, underpinned by the Postal Services Act of 2011, mandated International Distributions Services subsidiary Royal Mail to deliver …

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The end of the Saturday post? After months of strikes and disrupted deliveries, watchdog paves way for end to letters on Saturday as first-class stamp cost to rise again by 15p to hit £1.25

Royal Mail is agitating to end Saturday deliveries as it hits customers with yet another increase in the price of First Class stamps.  The move would fundamentally change the 500-year-old postal service, which is currently obligated to deliver letters to every address six days a week. There are fears that …

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