Postcomm, the independent regulator, has denied it was setting out to destroy Consignia and the universal postal service with its proposals to liberalise the postal market. Martin Stanley, Postcomm chief executive, told MPs yesterday that Consignia should remain a dominant force once the market was open and would not be crippled by “overzealous regulators”.
Read MoreThe Department of Trade and Industry said David Mills has been appointed to take up a newly created post as CEO of Post Office Ltd and to the Board of Consignia Holdings plc with effect from 15 April 2002.
Read MoreA national postal strike will take place in the first week of March unless progress has been made in a pay dispute, union leaders warned yesterday.
Read MoreThe European Commission said it cleared the UK to set up a Post Office Bank to provide simplified standard current accounts for benefit recipients who do not use normal banks. The clearance is part of a commission decision not to object to universal banking services proposals notified by the UK, it said
Read MoreTHE Federation of Small Businesses in the North West last night warned that Postcomm’s proposals to remove Consignia’s monopoly on the UK’s lucrative business mail service could create a twotier postal service which favours big business.
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