Royal Mail Foresight 2005
Royal Mail Foresight 2005
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UK SHOPPERS `SPENDING £17bn A YEAR ONLINE’
Online shopping is booming in the UK, a new report reveals today. Twenty billion UK shoppers are spending £17 billion a year using the internet as more and more people buy via the web. Shoppers are increasingly shunning companies still not geared up to e-commerce and by 2009 a quarter of all UK shopping is predicted to be conducted via the internet in a market worth £80 billion.
Internet sales doubled between 2002 and 2003 – and some popular online retailers have seen sales triple in the last few months. The figures come in a report charting the rise across Europe of all forms of “distance selling” – from catalogues and mail shots to telephone, sales, television and, increasingly, the internet.
Business Post signs agreement with the Administrators of NCN
Business Post has signed an agreement with the Administrators of NCN Limited (“NCN”), which runs a national network of independent express parcel delivery firms and which went into administration yesterday. In the year ended 31 May 2003, NCN had an audited turnover of GBP25.2 million. The agreement gives Business Post access to NCN’s centrally-serviced customers and its network members.
Read MoreUK Christmas mailbag grows
Despite the popularity of e-mails and text messaging customers continue to
post Christmas cards in record numbers. Royal Mail have today announced a record number of deliveries were achieved this Christmas. Over 2.2 billion items were delivered. Postwatch thanks Royal Mail on behalf of customers for their record breaking effort. Peter Carr said “This is a good result for Royal Mail and it is encouraging that mail volumes have been sustained despite the e-alternatives. All the management and staff should be congratulated.”
UK post office staff to strike in Christmas hours row
Workers in hundreds of Post Offices across the UK are to strike on Christmas Eve in a row over opening hours, it was announced today. Managers will fill in for counter staff at 294 crown offices when the walkout starts at 12.30pm. The Royal Mail said it wanted to keep open its 555 crown offices until 4pm to give people more time to collect pensions and child benefits. But the Communication Workers Union said there was no need to keep open offices beyond the traditional 12.30pm closing time.
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