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T he Business Secretary said she does not have plans to approve the Royal Mail switching to a five-days-a-week operation. Kemi Badenoch suggested to MPs that allowing the Royal Mail to shed its Saturday delivery and pick-up duties would mean it “stops being the service which you want”. The Royal …

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, …

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 …

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 …

In a letter to the Business Select Committee in June, he wrote: “The ability to send and receive letters and parcels is important both socially and economically. This is particularly true for consumers who might be more vulnerable.” Ofcom will publish evidence later in the year on how demand is …

Royal Mail has warned that letters posted on Monday with an old-style stamp could incur an extra charge if they do not make final collection times. July 31 is the deadline to use stamps without barcodes. From Tuesday, letters posted without barcodes will be treated as having “insufficient postage”, meaning …

T he company behind Royal Mail has appointed its next boss from its rapidly growing Dutch subsidiary following a bruising time for the logistics giant. International Distributions Services (IDS) said that Martin Seidenberg will become chief executive of the group. Since 2020 he has run GLS – an Amsterdam-based parcel …

The planned cap on stamp prices is the latest blow to Royal Mail, which is trying to shift its focus to parcels as demand for letters continues to decline. Earlier this month, the Government blocked the company’s plans to axe Saturday letter deliveries. The move threatens to drive the price …

The problem is that the USO can only be scrapped with Parliament’s say-so and it is refusing to play ball, business minister Kevin Hollinrake has announced. “As you will be aware, we currently have no plans to change the minimum requirements of the universal postal service,” he said in a …

R oyal Mail will be investigated by the industry watchdog Ofcom after it failed to meet its delivery targets during the past year. The postal service delivered only 73.7 per cent of First Class mail within one day, well short of its 93 per cent target. Ofcom said it would …