Tag: Royal Mail

Later delivery plan for UK post

Posted by | Jun 2, 2007 | |

Postal deliveries could be pushed back to a 10.30am start time following a major overhaul of working practices by Royal Mail.

Residents and businesses across Lancashire could face later deliveries after Royal Mail announced they were looking at a more efficient way of working.

Unions chiefs have hit out at the change and said it could bring chaos to the delivery service.

The news follows initial moves at the Leyland sorting office where postmen were informed they could not leave for their rounds until after 10am.

Royal Mail said the move had been prompted by a desire to make postal workers spend more time in the sorting office before they start deliveries.

They said the change would allow more efficiency in sorting the next day’s post.

The changes are to be rolled out at sorting offices across Lancashire and the rest of the UK but Royal Mail claim it would not result in deliveries stretching in to late afternoon.

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Marketers still ignorant on Pricing in Proportion

Posted by | Jun 1, 2007 | |

More than a fifth of senior marketing executives and print managers have never even heard of Royal Mail’s Pricing in Proportion (PiP) system, almost a year after it was first introduced, according to a study.

The survey, published by financial and business advisor Grant Thornton, reveals that many companies may be losing out by not taking PiP into consideration.

The changes were introduced in August of last year, yet of the 80 per cent who were aware of the changes, only 60 per cent have assessed the cost implications to their business.

Daniel Smith, print industry expert at Grant Thornton, says: “As Royal Mail’s price changes are fully digested there will be plenty of corporates looking at ways to cut their overall postage costs.”

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Royal Mail to axe two-thirds of rural bus service

Posted by | May 31, 2007 | |

Royal Mail has come under fire for axing two-thirds of a bus service that serves isolated rural areas.

Kent County Council said Royal Mail went ahead with the controversial decision despite an offer of increased financial support to keep the services going.

Post buses collect mail from post boxes and ferry people from isolated areas into and out of towns.

Nine services currently operate across the county but from September there will be only three in Gravesham and Sittingbourne.

KCC said Royal Mail originally planned to axe all the services but relented on three following urgent discussions with the county council.

The services facing the axe are numbers 301, 302 and 303 that serve villages in the Canterbury area plus 330, 331 and 332 in the Maidstone area.

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Support for postal strike growing in Britain as workers face ballot

Posted by | May 29, 2007 | |

Britain looks set for a national post strike this summer after independent polls showed that a clear majority of Royal Mail workers intend to vote in favour of action next month, The Times has learnt.

Postal workers are set to deliver a 65 per cent yes vote in favour of a national strike, according to independent polling commissioned by the Communication Workers Union (CWU), the main postal union.

The percentage in favour of an all-out strike over pay, which could cripple services as early as next month, has increased from 54 per cent four weeks ago to 65 per cent last week, according to sources at the CWU.

A telephone survey of 2,000 postal workers by the Campaign Company also rates a video sent to postal employees by Allan Leighton, the chairman of Royal Mail, as the single most negative message from Royal Mail. In it he uses the word “bulls**t”.

CWU sources are believed to be increasingly confident of a convincing vote in favour of strike action over the pay dispute amid an intense campaign by both sides. Last week the union advertised in seven national newspapers to put its case over pay and services to the public and to postal workers.

Royal Mail responded with its own campaign the following day. It has also used Mr Leighton’s direct appeal to workplaces as well as letters from him and Adam Crozier, its chief executive, to employees. It is 11 years since Royal Mail suffered a national strike.

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Royal Mail produce best-ever annual performance

Posted by | May 29, 2007 | |

Royal Mail has delivered to its customers the best-ever annual quality of service against target, it was announced today.

First Class mail comfortably exceeded the official target of 93.0 per cent in 2006-07 with 94.0 per cent of letters arriving the next day. Also, 98.9 per cent of Second Class mail was delivered within three days against a target of 98.5 per cent.

Overall, 11 of the 12 targets the business is set in its licence were achieved or surpassed in 2006/07.

The business mail services which performed above target level included Mailsort (for bulk mailers), Presstream (for publishers) and PPI (Postage Paid Impression) for mail posted in pre-paid envelopes. Standard Parcels also performed at its highest level on record with a 94.5 per cent against a target of 90.0 per cent.

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