Royal Mail agrees German Post trial
The Royal Mail today agreed a trial scheme to deliver letters collected by German rival Deutsche Post.
It was the first commercial arrangement Royal Mail has made on access to its network by a rival firm.
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Lost Mail Costs £450M
Late and lost mail cost businesses Pounds 450million last year, a report by Postwatch revealed yesterday.
Over half of companies said delays affected them. Some 7.3 per cent said they were “dissatisfied” with Royal Mail.
But over eight out of ten were “satisfied”.
The Royal Mail said: “For the past 15 months, nine out of ten first class letters have been arriving the next working day.”
Read MoreWilmot and Novak go head-to-head for Royal Mail job
Royal Mail managing directors Gillian Wilmot and Adam Novak are to battle it out for a new top marketing post created by Consignia chairman Allan Leighton. Wilmot, who is managing director of Royal Mail Business and Consumer Markets, and Novak, the Media Markets unit managing director, are to see their departments combined with the E-enterprise unit to form a Letters division.
Read MoreRoyal Mail set to scrap second deliveries
Royal Mail is set to scrap second deliveries from next year, in a move aimed at saving the beleaguered postal service £350m a year. The move, which comes after a series of trials for a single delivery system, is expected to lead to a second wave of job cuts.
Read More"Postcomm plans threaten 10,000 jobs in Royal Mail" says Amicus
The Communication Managers Association (CMA) section of Amicus, Britain’s largest private sector union, has today said that the price control proposals announced by the Postcomm postal regulator could mean up to 10,000 redundancies for Royal Mail over and above the 30,000 previously announced and threaten the future financial viability of the company.
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