Tag: UK

UK Royal Mail 'Still talking about rail'

Posted by | Oct 22, 2003 | |

Allan Leighton, chairman of Royal Mail, has told MPs that the postal organisation is talking to seven potential suppliers about continuing to transport mail on the railways. The Royal Mail scandalised unions and environmental groups in June by concluding that air and road were cheaper options for delivering post, and that the network’s mail-train services will stop by the end of next March. This was despite the fact that it had signed a 10-year contract for its rail services, ending in 2006.

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UK Royal Mail buys 17% of Moving Technologies

Posted by | Oct 22, 2003 | |

Royal Mail has snapped up a 17% share in Moving Technologies, a supplier of address change technology. As part of the deal Royal Mail has signed up to launch a new online change of address service. Over 800 companies are signed up to the service, including the main utility providers, banks and supermarkets, a number expected to grow to over 2,000. It is estimated that over 11m home-movers could benefit from using the service each year.

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Changes to Royal Mail's Standard Parcel service

Posted by | Oct 21, 2003 | |

Royal Mail today welcomed Postcomm’s decision to allow it to make alterations to its Standard Parcel service. From 1 April 2004, Royal Mail will withdraw the delivery of Standard Parcels weighing more than 20kgs – a service historically provided, although not required under the terms of the Universal Service Obligation within the Postal Services Act. Royal Mail’s network is not designed for handling items weighing more than 20kgs, which account for less than one per cent of the four-and-a-half million Standard Parcels it delivers each year.
Royal Mail’s current charge for handling Standard Parcels weighing between 20kg and 30kgs is GBP10.76. The real cost of providing the higher weight delivery is between GBP22 and GBP36, depending on a variety of factors including the destination, resulting in an annual loss on the service of around £1 million.

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UK Royal Mail to end heavy parcels service

Posted by | Oct 21, 2003 | |

The Royal Mail was given permission today to withdraw a service delivering heavy parcels which loses the company £1 million a year.

Parcels weighing between 20kg (46lbs) and 30kg (66lbs) were delivered for £10.76, but the Royal Mail said the actual cost was between £22 and £36, depending on the destination. Around 45,000 of the parcels were delivered every year, less than 1% of the 4.5 million handled by the Royal Mail.

The service will be withdrawn next April.

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