Noisy night flights are to be reduced at Coventry Airport following a move by Parcelforce to switch to road and rail as part of a cost cutting drive.
The number of flights the company operates from its Baginton base will be reduced to from five to two per week by the end of the month.
Read MoreThe price of sending a first-class letter is set to rocket because European bureaucrats want to impose VAT on British postal services.
EU Commissioners in Brussels are proposing the tax – which could add 17.5 per cent to the postage cost of all letters and parcels – because they want member states to have the same policies on postal services.
But the idea has already drawn outrage from Royal Mail and consumer groups.
Read MoreThe Competition Commission has sent an issues letter to the main parties, Neopost SA (Neopost) and Ascom Holding AG (Ascom) in its inquiry into the proposed acquisition by Neopost of certain assets of Ascom.
Read MoreThe postal services’ consumer watchdog has condemned the Royal Mail for penalising companies with bilingual names which use its redirection service.
Royal Mail’s present policy means companies with a bilingual name have to pay GBP126 a year to redirect letters, when companies with one name only pay GBP63. Eifion Pritchard, chairman of Postwatch Wales, said, “This situation is totally unacceptable. The Royal Mail is forcing companies with a bilingual name to pay twice for redirecting their post”.
Read MoreMail deliveries are becoming more reliable after an increase in the number of letters arriving on time, new figures showed today.
The number of first class letters delivered a day after posting was 91.8% between last April and December, a 2.5% improvement over the previous year.
Second class mail performance was 98.3% over the same period, up by 0.6% on the previous year.
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