Tag: Royal Mail

UK Postal Competition Countdown: 100 days to go

Posted by | Sep 23, 2005 | |

There are just 100 days to go to the New Year and a fully free and open UK postal market. Already competition for bulk mail has brought about improvements in prices, quality and range of services. Postcomm, the regulator, and Postwatch, the consumer watchdog, expect full competition to continue this momentum, further improving postal services, keeping prices in check and stimulating much-needed innovation. Nigel Stapleton, chairman of Postcomm said: “Opening the mail market to competition will create a more vibrant postal market in the UK. It will introduce choice to a market that has been a monopoly for 350 years. “With 100 days to go, we believe that everyone will win. Customers will win through greater choice, new operators can win by innovating and developing new services, and Royal Mail can continue to grow and thrive. We have already seen marked improvements in Royal Mail’s performance as we move towards full market opening.”

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Post Office and Gift Voucher Shop join forces with top UK retailers to deliver new gift voucher service

Posted by | Sep 23, 2005 | |

The Post Office and The Gift Voucher Shop today announce an exciting new gift voucher service to help lift some of the gloom surrounding declining high street retail sales. The new gift voucher service will be available at all of the 14,600 Post Office branches nationwide, giving the 28 million customers who visit the Post Office every week access to an extensive range of high street retailers.

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Lib Dems snub call for UK Royal Mail sell-off

Posted by | Sep 21, 2005 | |

Liberal Democrat modernisers suffered an embarrassing setback in their bid to drag the party back on to the political centre ground when conference delegates yesterday refused to back a flagship proposal to privatise Royal Mail. Market-friendly Lib Dems, who make up a majority of the senior frontbench team, had made the sell-off plan the centrepiece of their efforts to bolster the party’s credibility by enhancing its economic liberalism and shaking up its approach to public service reform. Delegates shelved the policy pending further consultation rather than rejecting it outright. But the vote means the Lib Dems have missed an opportunity to take a lead on the future of Royal Mail and will have no formal policy if the government decides on a partial sell-off.

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Five new UK Post Office appointments strengthen financial services team

Posted by | Sep 20, 2005 | |

The Post Office today announced five new appointments to its financial services team, re-affirming its position as a growing player in the financial services market. Since launching into financial services with Post Office Loans in March 2004, the Post Office has enhanced its offering to include car and home insurance, Child Trust Funds, Guaranteed Equity Bonds and Growth Bonds. With further product launches planned before the end of the year, the Post Office has made the appointments to drive its financial services offering into the next phase. The new appointments are: Gordon Gourlay – Director of Strategy and Marketing, Claire Oldstein – Head of Marketing, Phil Ashkuri – Head of Insurance, Gary Fitton – Head of Lending and Richard Norman – Head of Savings and Investments.

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UK Royal Mail to regain delivery monopoly as Express quits

Posted by | Sep 19, 2005 | |

Royal Mail will regain its monopoly on delivering household post following a decision by Express Dairies to pull out of the postal delivery business. Express Dairies has been delivering small parcels, magazines and catalogues to the nation’s homes using its fleet of milk floats since 2002. Although other companies have contemplated setting up a full residential mail delivery service, so far Express has been the only competitor to Royal Mail in this market. But earlier this month Express wrote to its business customers informing them that it would wind up its delivery operation at the end of November. In the letter, it blamed changes in postal pricing for the move. Royal Mail’s planned move to size-based pricing, which would make heavy items such as catalogues cheaper to post, and a new promotion to win back magazine and catalogue customers, was squeezing Express out of its niche market, it said. Last June, Express Dairies formed a partnership with TNT Mail to expand its delivery business. It is understood that TNT Mail now plans to establish its own end-to-end delivery service but it is not clear how long this would take to set up.

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