Tag: Royal Mail

Royal Mail Group employees lead the way in carbon offsetting (UK)

Posted by | Jan 14, 2008 | |

The Woodland Trust is challenging businesses to follow Royal Mail Group’s example in enabling its people to offset their carbon emissions by planting trees.

Already 130 employees from Royal Mail, Post Office Ltd and Parcelforce Worldwide have signed up to the newly launched scheme to give money direct from their wage packets to the Woodland Trust, which will enable the charity to plant and look after 2,500 trees in its 1,000 UK woods.

To find out how many trees the employees would have to plant to offset their annual carbon footprint and to get tips about how to reduce their emissions they used a revolutionary new carbon calculator called Ollie.

This calculator, developed by Royal Mail, asks employees about their home energy usage, as well as car and air travel before calculating how many trees will need to be planted to help offset their carbon footprints.

This is the first time a company’s employees have ever been given the opportunity to offset their residual carbon emissions tax free through their wage packets to a charity which specialises in UK woodland creation.

Now Royal Mail has launched the scheme internally the company has gifted the carbon calculator to the Woodland Trust, which is challenging other businesses to follow Royal Mail’s example and offer their employees the opportunity to help offset their carbon footprints.

Royal Mail staff are no strangers to giving to charity though their wage packets, which is called payroll giving. Royal Mail was among the first organisations to set up payroll giving in 1989 and its scheme is one of the largest in the UK. The calculator is being promoted directly in the workplace by representatives from Payroll Giving in Action, who help employees to do calculations and fill out pledge forms.

About 50,000 staff are currently signed up to payroll giving and during the last financial year gave more than GBP 2.6 million to charitable causes.

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Moneygram® and Post Office® deliver greater peace of mind to international money transfers

Posted by | Jan 10, 2008 | |

Post Office® and MoneyGram® have welcomed the introduction of the UK Remittances Task Force Customer Charter, supported by the Department for International Development.

MoneyGram is one of the founder signatories to the new charter which aims to ensure greater transparency and security of service for the millions of people across the UK who send money transfers worth an estimated GBP 2.3 bn abroad each year.

MoneyGram’s international money transfer service is available at all 14,000 Post Office® branches nationwide making it the largest provider in the UK to sign up to the charter – its participation in the scheme ensures that over half of the UK’s transfer outlets will immediately comply with its standards.

The MoneyGram service at the Post Office® is fully in line with the charter’s standards which aim to ensure customers understand the fees and exchange rates that will apply to their transactions before completion, as well defining the information required to ensure secure delivery to the recipient e.g. location of collection points and timescales for delivery.

The Post Office® and MoneyGram have a long term commitment to leading the way in providing international money transfer services which customers can trust to offer high levels of speed and security. The recent introduction of a new computerised system allows cash to securely travel in just ten minutes* from any Post Office® to 138,000 MoneyGram locations across the world.

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Royal Mail appoints Lamb to lead data development team (UK)

Posted by | Jan 10, 2008 | |

DMA (UK) Data Council chair Tony Lamb has taken up a position in Royal Mail’s data strategy team as Head of Data Development.

Lamb will be responsible for the development of Royal Mail’s data strategy, building the postal operator’s range of value added solutions to help businesses more effectively reach existing and new customers through the post.

Lamb has more than 18 years’ experience in the data industry, including running his own consultancy and managing Conduit Business Information.

He also headed up the UK technical development team at Wegener DM, which he joined after a stint at The REaD Group as business data chief.

Lamb started his career at Centaur Media, heading up the Centaur Direct Marketing division.

Over the course of 2007, as Chair of the Data Council, Lamb was instrumental in driving environmental initiatives and raising the profile of best practice in data-led direct marketing.

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Millions of people more reliant on credit in the new year than in 2007

Posted by | Jan 10, 2008 | |

New research from the Post Office® reveals that one in four credit card holders will be starting the New Year more dependent on credit than in 2007, with 41 per cent intending to rely on their credit card for day to day living costs such as grocery shopping.

The Post Office® is advising anyone relying on credit to ensure they get the best possible deal so they don’t end up over-paying for money borrowed on credit cards.

The research also revealed that half of card holders said they intend to use their credit card in the January sales and almost a third (28 per cent) said they plan to make bigger purchases on holidays.

With a huge 53 per cent of people not paying their credit card off in full each month, the Post Office® is urging borrowers to use the New Year as an opportunity to check all aspects of their finances – particularly the rate they are paying on their credit card.

As well as no overseas commission charges, the Post Office® credit card also has zero per cent on balance transfers for the first 10 months and zero per cent on purchases for the first three months. In addition, it offers zero per cent again on new balance transfers made during the month of the cardholder’s first and second anniversary.

Even after the promotional periods, the Post Office® credit card still offers a competitive interest rate of 15.9 per cent APR typical (variable).

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