Tag: Royal Mail

Royal Mail arm to offer direct response advice

Royal Mail is to launch a consultancy service to provide advertisers
with advice on how to use direct response media as part of a brand’s
marketing mix. The service, to be unveiled next month, forms part of the
Consignia-owned company’s attempts to woo advertisers and their
agencies by offering services beyond its traditional mail delivery
operation.

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CWU Gen Sec chastises a postal regulator bent on delivering Royal Mail workers' labour into the hands of the private sector

THE Post Office is a monopoly. It is strange that recent conditioning means
that I almost feel apologetic about this disgraceful state of affairs. I feel as if I should add: “I’m sorry about this. Naturally, I will do everything I can to end it. I know that monopolies are bad.” But the truth is that I don’t feel that way at all. I don’t even feel that there should be a debate about it. A postal monopoly is not good, bad or indifferent, it is a fact – like the fact
that there is only one Monopolies Commission. No other organisation could begin to compete with Royal Mail in any serious way. The fact that it has remained unchallenged as the nation’s mail carrier for 350 years is not because no-one else has been interested in the business or that noone has noticed that there is a postal service. No-one has tried to enter the market because there is no room for two parallel enterprises moving mail across the country.

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