Tag: Royal Mail

E-mail officially overtakes traditional post in the popularity stakes

Posted by | Mar 13, 2002 | |

A study by Internet measurement company NetValue found 550 million e-mails were sent and received by UK homes in January – nearly 300 million more than the domestic amount handled by the Royal Mail.
Alki Manias, managing director of NetValue UK, said: “This is a real milestone for e-mail. Although only widely available to the public since 1995, the e-mail has surpassed hundreds of years of domestic Royal Mail services in a few years.

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Now Consignia wants to use your home as a postal depot

Posted by | Mar 10, 2002 | |

Consignia, formerly the Post Office, has sent leaflets to thousands of private homes over the past few weeks asking for volunteers to let their houses be used as temporary delivery depots, or ‘safe drops’.

The scheme works like this: sacks of letters are left at the safe drop house by Royal Mail van drivers. When the postman has finished his first round, instead of going back to the depot, he collects another sack of post from the safe drop.

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Postal deregulation will hit countryside and the elderly

Posted by | Mar 9, 2002 | |

AS a customer who does not live in close range of a branch, I feel very strongly about the postal regulator’s plans to sell off the Post Office.

There will be many private firms only too willing to deliver bulk mail to towns and cities, but where will that leave people living in areas where there are only a few houses?

Does the regulator really think that the Post Office can ever survive once it has granted licences for private firms to cherry-pick, leaving just the unprofitable deliveries?

I think that every MP will know that it is impossible for the Post Office to compete on these terms.

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Royal Mail misses all its targets

Posted by | Mar 1, 2002 | |

Royal Mail failed to meet any of its delivery targets in the nine months from April to December last year. Postwatch, the consumers’ group, condemned the result, saying that 300 million first-class letters arrived late in this period. Failure to reach all 13 service targets set by the postal regulator could mean fines for Consignia.

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