Tag: Royal Mail

Royal Mail to refuse to accept mailings posted via Extra Territorial Offices of Exchange (ETOEs)

Posted by | Dec 15, 2004 | |

Royal Mail has announced that from 1 January 2005 it will refuse to accept under the terms and conditions of the UPU Acts, any items of mail received from ETOE’s, international offices of exchange operated by a national postal administrations but located in another country. Over the last few years an increasing number of ETOEs have been established for both operational and commercial reasons, in some cases however, they have been established in unindustrialised countries by industrialised countries to take advantage of the lower terminal dues charged to unindustrialised countries. At the Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress in Bucharest this Autumn a resolution was adopted which stated that mailings processed by ETOEs are not covered by UPU Acts. In line with this resolution Royal Mail has informed all international postal carriers that from 1 January 2005 it will refuse to accept any mail from ETOEs, under the terms and conditions of the UPU Acts, which is given to it by either conveyance companies, third party handling agents, postal administrations or any other intermediary and other intermediaries.

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UK Royal Mail asks for a ban on firearms-by-post

Posted by | Dec 14, 2004 | |

Royal Mail yesterday asked Postcomm to prohibit the carriage of firearms in its mail service. If agreed, the ban would apply to the delivery of sporting, deactivated and replica firearms, munitions and ordnance by Royal Mail’s letter post, special and recorded delivery and standard parcels services. Parcelforce would continue to carry firearms, as would other parcel companies. Postcomm began consulting on the request today. While it is lawful to send these items by the post at present, Royal Mail claims that despite their legal status, the sending of them by the standard post causes disruption to their services. Banning firearms would reduce this. At present, every time a firearm is found, Royal Mail’s operations are halted as police have to be alerted. Prohibiting firearms should mean less disruption. Any firearms found would be handed over to the police who would return lawful firearms to their owners.

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UK Royal Mail sell-off wins go-ahead, says paper

Posted by | Dec 12, 2004 | |

Royal Mail Chairman Allan Leighton has won a private pledge from the government that he can partially privatise the state-owned postal service, the Financial Mail on Sunday has reported. But the Department of Trade and Industry denied there were any such plans. “We have no plans to privatise the Royal Mail,” said a department spokeswoman. The paper said the privatisation deal was the price Leighton demanded to stay on for another three years. On Thursday, the government said Leighton will serve a further three years as chairman of the Royal Mail, until March 2008. Leighton has been given the green light to hand 20 percent of the business to postal workers, and sell off 31 percent on the stock market for about 4 billion pounds, but this will put him on a collision course with the Communication Workers’ Union, the paper said.

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UK postage prices to change to reflect costs of handling mail

Posted by | Dec 10, 2004 | |

The price of a basic First Class stamp will go up from 28p to 30p from 7 April 2005, Royal Mail confirmed today. Many business mail services will see very much smaller increases and, in some cases, real decreases, as Royal Mail takes the first steps toward rebalancing its prices to reflect actual costs and prepares for full competition in the market. The basic rate for Second Class mail will remain at 21p for all customers and overall the price of postage for 40% of Royal Mail’s daily mailbag of some 83 million items will not change.
Royal Mail’s Chief Executive Adam Crozier said that with the UK mail market potentially fully open to competition from January 2006, it was essential that Royal Mail’s postage prices started to reflect the true cost to the company of collecting, sorting and delivering mail. Mr Crozier also said that the current system under which some customers cross-subsidise others could not continue in an open market.

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UK Royal Mail widens the gap between 1st and 2nd class stamps

Posted by | Dec 10, 2004 | |

Postwatch is very disappointed that Royal Mail has today announced that 1st class stamp prices will be increased by 2 pence to 30 pence from next April. Postwatch has consistently called on Royal Mail to freeze prices until they start to achieve acceptable levels of performance. Postwatch is also surprised that Royal Mail has chosen to widen the gap between 1st and 2nd class stamps.
Peter Carr, Chairman of Postwatch, commenting on the price increase said:
“Once again Royal Mail is increasing revenues by asking householders and
small businesses to pay more for their stamps. These are the customers least
likely to be offered a competitive alternative.

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