Tag: Royal Mail

This is the night mail…trains return to get UK post back on track

Posted by | May 16, 2004 | |

Royal Mail is to reinstate deliveries by rail in an attempt to restore public confidence in the postal network. Less than six months after abandoning the railways -with the exception of one train -the company is negotiating for a return of overnight delivery by rail as early as next month. The service was scrapped in January as part of a drive to save Royal Mail Pounds 90m a year. It said road and air services represented better value. This weekend, Royal Mail confirmed that negotiations with GB Railfreight are at an advanced stage. A spokesman said: “We thought we could use air and road services at a much cheaper cost while maintaining the service customers expect. These have been major changes and there have been some difficulties but we are pressing on resolving them.”

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UK Royal Mail spends pounds 5m on TVs and parties to raise staff morale

Posted by | May 16, 2004 | |

Royal Mail has given pounds 5m to its workers in a morale-boosting campaign, most of which has been used to buy wide-screen TVs and other perks in the company’s offices. The scheme, First Line Fixed, was introduced by Royal Mail’s chairman, Allan Leighton, last year. The money has been spent on a range of goods aimed at improving working conditions. A Royal Mail spokesman defended the First Line scheme and confirmed it would be repeated. “This was part of Allan Leighton’s plans to make offices great places to work, and we listened to what individual staff wanted. By far the majority [of purchases] were to improve offices, and if wide-screen TVs improve morale, that’s what it is for.”

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‘Wake-up call’ over UK postal charges

Posted by | May 10, 2004 | |

Paul Jackson, chief executive of mail industry consultancy Triangle Management Services, has a stark message for small firms. He says the current disruption to the postal service is “a wake-up call”. “Small businesses should stop moaning and recognise the world is changing,” he says. “They have a bargain at the moment and that bargain will not last for ever.” Price comparisons supplied by the Royal Mail suggest that Britain’s flat-rate 28p first class postage for letters under 60g compares favourably with the price of similar services across Europe, the US and Japan. You would pay 37.8p minimum per letter in Germany, 35.3p in France, 48.1p in Italy and 36.6p in Japan. Mr Jackson says that in countries where the postal services had been opened up to competition, like Sweden, prices for small businesses had increased. “In the long term when competition enters the marketplace the small user prices will go up. They should think about using mail less.”

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UK Royal Mail wants size to matter

Posted by | Apr 27, 2004 | |

Postcomm today began consulting on Royal Mail proposals that would bring about
the biggest change in postal pricing since the Penny Black. The company has asked Postcomm if it can change the way it charges for letters and packets to take account of the size of the mail item. At the moment the price of the stamp depends on the weight of the letter. But Royal Mail says it costs more to sort, handle and deliver big envelopes and packets and it wants stamp prices to take account of the size of the envelope. Nigel Stapleton, chairman of Postcomm said:
“These proposals would involve major changes. They mean that light but large mail such as very large greetings cards, CDs, rolls of photographic film, audio cassettes and video tapes, would cost more to post, but that some heavier items – books for example – would cost less. I hope as many people as possible will let us know what they think.”

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