The Royal Mail has banned the sale of stamps from its own sorting offices and stripped nearly 4,000 post offices across the UK of stamp vending machines.
Customers at most post offices around the country will now have to join lengthy queues if they wish to buy stamps at the counter.
The changes have gone through without any public consultation, leading to criticism of the Royal Mail’s “monopolistic attitude”.
Read MoreStamp prices should rise by a penny from next spring, the postal regulator is expected to announce next week.
Postcomm is likely to suggest that alongside the increase, which would net Royal Mail ý170m a year, the company should face tougher performance targets and a compensation scheme for customers.
Read MoreRoyal Mail has launched its most extensive and developed online campaign to date, in an attempt to inform its customers about the core services that it offers through the Internet. The campaign centres around the Royal Mail Special Delivery service and allows the service to be booked online for the first time. However, the campaign is part of a wider strategy for the company
Read MoreAllan Leighton, the chairman of the Royal Mail appointed by the UK Government who called the postal service a “chronic failure’, faces the embarrassment of being fined for his own slowness in delivering company accounts on time.
Officials at Companies House confirmed that Leighton has been late in filing his first set of accounts for Going Plural Ltd, the private company that collects his multimillion pound earnings from his clutch of company directorships. This is a breach of the Companies Act.
The Department of Trade and Industry also confirmed that Leighton is late in filing.
Sir – The destruction of the Royal Mail was referred to three times in the Western Daily Press on Tuesday.
Your leading article rightly points to the disastrous affect on post offices when the Government brings in its ‘smart’ways of paying the state pension.
On the letters page, J Knight, of Chippenham, points out the wrecking activities of Sir David Naish and, in your editorial, you refer to the Press’s campaign for rural post offices in 1999.Why did no-one mention the cause of the demise of our splendid postal service?
I’ve written several letters to various newspapers during the past three years explaining that the Royal Mail was dismantled under European Union Article 97/67EC of December 1997, which brought in the EU’s universal postal service.
None of my letters were published, but I’m trying again now.
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