Tag: Royal Mail

A whole new package: Royal Mail Interview

Posted by | Oct 4, 2001 | |

Consider this. Your company has had a legal monopoly for 350 years. Your core products are regarded as public services, so the government retains rights to interfere in business decisions. Neither your managers nor your workforce hasever seen a competitor. Suddenly, the government abolishes the monopoly, handing the future of the industry to an untried regulator. The regulator starts licensing competitors, even before establishing a clear regulatory framework.

Meanwhile, you are left with a public sector operating culture, a strike-prone workforce and a legal duty to maintain expensive public services even as competitors start eating into your more profitable markets. How do you respond?

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Royal Mail starts one-stop shop for mail media

Posted by | Oct 4, 2001 | |

Royal Mail has launched a resource called the Mail Media Centre, aimed at promoting the use of mail-based routes to market among the UK’s leading advertisers.

The centre is designed as a one-stop shop for research and advice about the role mail media can play in brand marketing strategies.

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Consignia leads trials into new delivery solutions for home shoppers

Posted by | Sep 27, 2001 | |

Consignia is exploring the potential of new-style deliveries which mean people do not have to be at home to receive goods ordered from catalogues or via the internet. The organisation has linked up with five providers of drop box systems to test consumer demand and the ways in which they work. It is the latest initiative in Consignia’s drive to resolve last mile delivery issues and unlock one of the accepted barriers to even more rapid growth in the home shopping market.

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Postcomm suggests services for Royal Mail

Posted by | Sep 27, 2001 | |

The Royal Mail should consider delivering pension money and child benefit to homes as part of a new approach to postal services, Postcomm, the industry regulator has suggested.

Graham Corbett, Postcomm’s chairman, said more emphasis should be put on availability of services and less on the number of post offices, claiming that sub-postmasters with only a handful of customers could not be expected to stay open indefinitely.

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Consignia faces fine as mail delivery record slips

Posted by | Sep 20, 2001 | |

According to the Daily Telegraph (UK), “Consignia may be penalised by Postcomm as much as 10% of its turnover as the former Post Office failed to meet its delivery targets in the first quarter. The company reported that only 86.1% of first class mail met the next-day delivery guarantee for the period, a figure that Consignia needs to bring up to the regulator’s 92.1% threshold for the financial year. Reliability this September will be affected by the terrorist attacks in the US, which grounded the company’s postal fleet and led to a week-long delay of US deliveries. Disrupted rail services in the UK has also affected Consignia’s schedule.”

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