Tag: Royal Mail

Recognising the danger of postal liberalisation – comment

Posted by | Feb 22, 2002 | |

I’m no particular fan of Richard Littlejohn’s political views, but I would recommend his book To Hell in a Handcard, for an insight into our national preoccupation with addressing symptoms rather than causes. Don’t get me wrong – I’m all for competition and consumer choice, but instead of recognising that this great British institution has commercial issues it needs to address (not least the perception among business users that it is overpriced and supporting its objective of becoming a major European player), we choose to chop its legs off.

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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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