Tag: UK

According to Postwatch it is good news that Royal Mail’s new management team are focused on reducing the incidence of lost and badly addressed mail. Postwatch is pleased that considerable efforts have been made to reduce the number of misdelivered letters and the incidence of parcels being left on doorsteps. These efforts have paid-off in terms of misdelivered mail but not yet for “doorstepped” parcels. More than 1.5 million parcels were stolen from doorsteps across the UK last year, an increase of more than 600,000 on the previous year. Postwatch fully supports Royal Mail’s efforts to encourage customers to correctly address letters and to add a return address on the back of envelopes. Millions of letters every year, including 5 million Christmas cards, have to be destroyed because they are undeliverable and cannot be returned.