Tag: Royal Mail

Red letter day for MSPS' mail

Posted by | Jun 28, 2003 | |

The Scottish Parliament has scrapped controversial plans to privatise its internal postal system after an outcry from MSPs. The service, which is currently operated by the Royal Mail, is instead to be taken over by the parliament itself. The existing Royal Mail employees working at the parliament will be offered the chance to stay on and become part of the parliament’s own staff. There were widespread protests earlier this year when it was claimed an English firm, Business Post, based in Slough, was poised to win the GBP 1 million contract to deliver MSPs’ mail.

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UK Royal Mail to launch internet access pilot

Posted by | Jun 27, 2003 | |

The Royal Mail plans to kick off a pilot program to provide Internet access through kiosks at post office branches. The pilots will be launched in partnership with Internet café chain easyInternetcafe in the next two months at some unspecified post offices. A Royal Mail spokeswoman said the Internet pilots would last a year. The pilots are designed to assess the demand for Internet access service at the post office. Depending on the response, the post will expand the Internet access service. It has yet to decide on the number of post offices where it’ll offer the pilots or the pricing during the trial. “We’re still working out the finer details,” a spokesman said.

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UK Royal Mail to speed up post office closures

Posted by | Jun 18, 2003 | |

Royal Mail is speeding up the closure of 3,000 urban post offices by a year. The programme had been due to end in December 2005 but is now being brought forward 12 months to reduce the uncertainty facing sub- postmasters, said Royal Mail’s chairman Allan Leighton.

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Plea to stop junk mail by Scottish MP

Posted by | Jun 17, 2003 | |

Mail bosses are to be asked to stop delivering junk mail by a Glasgow MSP. Tory Bill Aitken said today so many advertising fliers – and unsolicited letters – were being pushed through letterboxes they were fast becoming a “very real nuisance”. He warned they created a security problem when left sticking out of doors because they indicated the householders could be on holiday. Mr Aitken has written to Royal Mail chiefs asking them to reconsider whether they should accept contracts to deliver junk mail. He also urged advertisers to think again about whether the junk mail approach to selling was worthwhile. A Royal Mail spokeswoman said they had a legal obligation to carry mail and pointed out direct mail brought in money and helped keep Post Office workers in jobs.

She said anyone who didn’t want to get direct mail should contact the Mailing Preference Service, which will filter out mailshots which are of no interest.

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UK Post Office® branches to become more commercial and offer more financial products and services in sweeping changes, Allan Leighton reveals today

Posted by | Jun 17, 2003 | |

Post Office branches will sell a comprehensive range of financial services as part of a sweeping commercialisation of the UK’s network of branches, Allan Leighton, chairman of Royal Mail revealed today (Tuesday) at the National Federation of Subpostmasters conference in Scarborough. The first, an unsecured personal loan, will go on sale from October with a national roll out targeted for January/February 2004. Mr Leighton said: “Post Office reinvention is now truly underway, and David Mills, the Chief Executive, and I want it to be based on the entrepreneurial skills of our subpostmasters backed by new products, new incentives and new advertising. We are determined to put our Post Office branches on a better financial footing, by giving customers the products they want and letting subpostmasters get on with the job of running their branches to suit their customers.

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