Tag: Royal Mail

UK postal workers union attacks newspaper subscription plans

Posted by | Apr 14, 2004 | |

Postal workers union the CWU has attacked Royal Mail plans to dispense with the Newspaper Registration Service. The service is a cut-price method to send newspapers through the post at a reduced rate. It was set up in the mid-1800s to enable publishers to reach readers living in remote areas. By registering their newspapers with the Royal Mail, users get first class deliveries for second class rates. Communication Workers’ Union general secretary Billy Hayes is calling on ministers to intervene to reverse the planned scrapping of the service.

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50g mail market

Posted by | Apr 7, 2004 | |

email from Paul Jackson: I hadn’t heard the statistic quoted by Roger Higginson at our recent meeting that 77% of the UK mail is below 50gms. I assume it was the UK or was it the EU? Is this a confidential figure?
Response from David Robottom: It was an EU statistic. The volume below 50g within UK is a great deal smaller than 77%. It is a matter of public record and came from CTCON’s research for the commission a few years ago.

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TPG deal ‘a significant step forward for mail competition,’ says UK Postcomm

Posted by | Apr 7, 2004 | |

Postcomm chief executive Martin Stanley today welcomed the access agreement between Royal Mail and TPG Post UK Ltd under which Royal Mail will deliver post ‘the final mile’ for the Dutch company. Mr Stanley said: “This is another significant step forward for competition in the UK postal market, and a sign that the industry is growing increasingly confident that the access arrangements, driven by Postcomm, will deliver benefits to the customer. We expect other deals to follow.”

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Deutsche Post to use UK Royal Mail network

Posted by | Apr 4, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post, the German mail delivery company, has moved further into the UK business market by agreeing terms to use Royal Mail’s delivery network. The move breaks months of deadlock and avoids the need for Postcomm, the postal regulator, to step in to set a price. Terms of the agreement, expected to be approved formally by the Royal Mail board early this month, are the same as those announced in February between the Royal Mail and the UK Mail arm of Business Post, its private sector rival. Royal Mail will deliver post collected and sorted by Deutsche Post. The German company will pay 13p for letters fully sorted by one of Royal Mail’s 1,450 delivery offices and 13.375p if items are only sorted by postcode.

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