Tag: Royal Mail

Royal Mail Retracts Fee for Early Delivery

Posted by | Jul 14, 2002 | |

The Royal Mail yesterday staged an embarrassing climbdown over its plan to charge small businesses and householders £14 a week for early delivery of their post after its chairman said he had not been told about the scheme. Allan Leighton, chairman of Consignia, which is to revert to its Royal Mail name by the end of the year, said the postal service would now widen pilot projects to see if it could economically deliver small volumes of mail before 9am at £5 and £10, as well as £14, a week. The charges would have hit relatively small users of the mail. Anyone receiving an average of more than 20 letters a day would not be charged.

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Mail rate plan condemend by post watchdog

Posted by | Jul 12, 2002 | |

Postwatch has attacked Royal Mail over its controversial plan for a new pricing system, branding it both complicated and unnecessary.
The post industry watchdog voiced its disapproval of the new system, which will take into account the size of an item as well as its weight, following consultation with a range of postal users.
Peter Carr, chairman of Postwatch, says: “This is the wrong route. Royal Mail should be buying machinery that processes the larger items that customers wish to send.

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UK Post Office to charge for pre-9am delivery

Posted by | Jul 10, 2002 | |

The Post Office has announced that it plans to charge £14 per week for customers who wish to receive their mail before 9.00 am, according to a report on the BBC 6.00 pm news. The Post Office will be carrying out a pilot scheme of the new charges for deliveries in certain areas from next week, it said.

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Royal Mail pilots early delivery charge

Posted by | Jul 5, 2002 | |

Swansea businesses and residents could soon have to pay £62.50 a month to guarantee their mail arrives before 9am. Under a huge shake-up of postal services, the Royal Mail says it will soon only be able to promise early morning deliveries to those addresses in Llanelli and Burry Port that receive an average of 20 or more letters a day. Everyone else will either have to wait until after 9am or pay for the service when the changes start later this month.

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PacTrac release Parcels & Packets UK market research results

Posted by | Jul 3, 2002 | |

Andrew Lester & Associates has just delivered the first of four sets of research findings on the UK parcels and packets market in 2002. The PacTrac Programme is a continuous market monitoring study that reports quarterly on parcel and packet shipments, carriers used and types of service levels required.

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