Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for Royal Mail, has submitted a “super-complaint” against the mail delivery monopoly on behalf of a number of business customers. A spokesman for the organisation said yesterday that the complaint had been submitted to the Office of Fair Trading after a number of major customers of Royal Mail had complained that it was abusing its dominant market position.
Read MoreRoyal Mail has been accused of “abusing its dominant position in the market” for the delivery of letters by its consumer watchdog, which has filed a special complaint to competition authorities. Postwatch yesterday submitted a “super complaint” to the Office of Fair Trading on behalf of many of Royal Mail’s large customers, saying the mail operator had abused its position by preferring its own mail consolidation business.
Read MoreNightspeed Services based in Tipton, West Midlands, has won the quarter of a million pound a year contract to deliver OASE UK garden products to garden centres throughout the UK.
Read MoreOne of the biggest banking changes for decades will creak into life on April 1 this year. For the people involved, over fifteen million of them, it is definitely not an April Fool.
The Universal Bank, which is scheduled to click into place when the Government phases out the payment of benefits and pensions using order books and giros, is no joke for the Post Office either. These transactions represent over a third of the total income for the network, which is already making a loss.
Read MoreThe Minister for Communications, Mr Ahern, has expressed increasing concern about the deteriorating financial position in An Post, it is understood. With the State postal company expected next month to disclose day-to-day losses of ’20 million last year, Mr Ahern is believed to have called for monthly meetings between his Department and An Post to monitor the financial situation. The company has started a reform programme, but it is understood that a slippage in targets has led informed observers in Government circles to speak of ‘amber warning lights’ in the company.
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