Moving the Post Office to meet the Customer
Moving the Post Office to meet the Customer
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Countering the competition: adjusting to liberalisation
Countering the competition: adjusting to liberalisation
Read MoreRoyal Mail's Special Delivery Next Day service – Postcomm's decision
In January 2008, Royal Mail made an application to Postcomm to limit the compensation available with the Special Delivery Next Day service, and included with that application a statement of agreement from Postwatch.
The document published today – Royal Mail’s proposed changes to its Special Delivery Next Day service. Postcomm’s decision (pdf, 77KB) – closes the consultation that Postcomm undertook in 2006 and sets out the regulator’s decision on Royal Mail’s 2008 application
Read MoreThe Benefits of Competition in the UK Mail Market
This report is published by Europe Economics for TNT UK and shows benefits for the UK of GBP 2.29m and 3,300 jobs from competition in UK Mail market with a forecast of additional net benefits of up to GBP 405m and 660,000 jobs by 2016.
Read MoreClosure threat on 13 post offices (UK)
Thirteen post offices in mid Wales are the latest to be earmarked for possible closure as part of Post Office’s UK-wide review.
The changes are needed to make the network viable, says Post Office Ltd.
The proposals also include establishing 24 outreach service points to replace some branches.
Conservatives and Liberal Democrats criticised the plans which could see branches in Montgomeryshire, Ceredigion and Brecon and Radnorshire areas close.
The announcement follows the decision to close 29 branches in Cardiff, Bridgend, Vale of Glamorgan and valleys.
A decision on 25 threatened branches across the Newport and Gwent Valleys has yet to be made.
The proposals for mid Wales will leave 153 post offices – five branches in towns and 148 in rural areas.
The region currently has 166 post offices.
The company says more than 98.8pct of the region’s 200,000 population will either see no change or will remain within one mile, by road, of an alternative branch.
The new outreach service points will provide post office services for a designated number of hours per week in that particular area and could be located within a mobile van, a host shop or village hall.
In very small communities, a home service could be provided whereby a sub postmaster delivers a reduced range of products and services which can be ordered over the telephone.
Under the plans, 89.3pct of the area’s population will retain their existing post office branch, said Post Office Ltd.
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