Tag: Royal Mail

Great service from UK Post Office

Posted by | Feb 18, 2002 | |

RECENTLY I have been intensely irritated by media criticism of our wonderful post office service and thus heartily endorse every single word of the letter from Mr and Mrs Underhill which (WMN, February 6).

Let me give you a current example of the excellent service provided which is not untypical in my experience.

A letter sent by first class mail from the Lake District, postmarked 7.30pm, was delivered here in Tavistock by our friendly and helpful postman at 7.15am the following morning.

Are some of us never satisfied?

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Can Royal Mail afford to strike?

Posted by | Feb 15, 2002 | |

Last week’s postal union ballot in favour of national strike action threatens to deal a body-blow to many in the direct marketing industry – not least of which will be the embattled Consignia, currently losing up to #1.5m a day.
Yet perhaps the most severely affected will be the financial services community, for whom the months of February and March are the most crucial.

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Amazon UK success helped by Royal Mail's overnight delivery

Posted by | Feb 13, 2002 | |

It was fascinating to read Jeff Bezos explaining why Amazon.com was successful in Britain (How to turn over a new leaf, February 9). “In the UK the Royal Mail does a fantastic job of overnight delivery to something like 85% of UK addresses and that’s just standard shipping. Here you have to pay expensive UPS or Fedex shipping to get overnight service.”

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Royal Mail has really only got itself to blame

Posted by | Feb 8, 2002 | |

The shambles of the Post Office/ Royal Mail/Consignia is self- inflicted. Management wailing about the regulator (the clearest indication that Corbett and Co are doing a good job) and private operators ‘cherry picking’ bulk mail is the last desperate excuse of a management that has failed to pay any attention to one of its biggest and wealthiest customers – the direct mail industry.

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