Tag: Royal Mail

Royal Mail delays decision on size-based pricing

Posted by | Sep 5, 2002 | |

Royal Mail has confirmed this week that it will not be putting forward its business case on size-based pricing (SBP) to the Consignia Board until the end of the year, several months later than originally planned. The size-based pricing project team was due to make its recommendations to the board at its September meeting. The national carrier has said that it needs more time to work through the issues raised across its customer-base during the consultation process.

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Watchdog raps Royal Mail

Posted by | Aug 30, 2002 | |

Royal Mail came under fire from the postal watchdog yesterday, after it emerged that almost two-thirds of its services were performing less well than at the end of last year – including first class mail delivery.
The postal operator insisted that between April and June, 91.3 per cent of first-class letters had arrived the day after posting, against 86.5 per cent for the same period last year. Second-class mail deliveries, meanwhile, had beaten delivery targets.
But Postwatch said the figures showed that in a year at least 390m first-class letters would not arrive the next day. The watchdog added that Royal Mail’s results for 10 out of 16 postal services were worse now than at the end of last year.

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Publishers hit back at Royal Mail pricing plan

Posted by | Aug 22, 2002 | |

Magazine publishers are threatening to withdraw business from Royal Mail if the postal operator proceeds with plans to charge publishers according to the physical size of their titles. The Periodical Publishers’ Association’s postal committee has called an emergency committee meeting to consider alternative distribution methods, amid fears that the planned postal pricing regime could impose punitive costs on magazine owners.

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Campaign to save post offices hots up

Posted by | Aug 21, 2002 | |

A third of all post offices in Birmingham could close as part of a national cost-cutting drive, it was claimed yesterday.

According to the the Liberal Democrats, Birmingham will be one of the hardest hit areas as the Post Office struggles to curb mounting losses.

Eleven of the 32 branches in Ladywood face closure, with seven under threat in Small Heath and Sparkbrook and five heading for closure in Hall Green, they claimed.

In other areas of the city they have already begun a campaign to save up to 16 Birmingham subpost offices from closure with petition forms delivered to 30,000 homes.

Lib Dems, backed by their Euro MP Liz Lynne, are circulating the Hands Off Our Post petition to households in Perry Barr, Great Barr and Kingstanding.

They fear that plans to close 3,500 of Britain’s 8,000 urban post offices will leave many, particularly the elderly and less well-off, without easy access to vital services.

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Threatened post strike called off

Posted by | Aug 20, 2002 | |

A postal strike which would have thrown Bridgwater’s mail into chaos this week was called off at the eleventh hour on Wednesday.

Last minute talks between bosses from the Communication Workers’ Union and Royal Mail finally resolved an overtime payment dispute which threatened to wreak havoc at the Friarn Street sorting office.

Staff at the office agreed in a ballot at 6am on Wednesday to drop the strike threat, which was due to begin on Wednesday night.

If the action had gone ahead, mail deliveries in the Bridgwater area would have been disrupted for three days until Friday night, with managers from Royal Mail taking on some of the work.

The row had been over whether Bridgwater staff should get overtime payments for covering sickness, which Royal Mail had intended to scrap but is now reconsidering.

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