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UK Royal Mail asks for a ban on firearms-by-post

Posted by | Dec 14, 2004 | |

Royal Mail yesterday asked Postcomm to prohibit the carriage of firearms in its mail service. If agreed, the ban would apply to the delivery of sporting, deactivated and replica firearms, munitions and ordnance by Royal Mail’s letter post, special and recorded delivery and standard parcels services. Parcelforce would continue to carry firearms, as would other parcel companies. Postcomm began consulting on the request today. While it is lawful to send these items by the post at present, Royal Mail claims that despite their legal status, the sending of them by the standard post causes disruption to their services. Banning firearms would reduce this. At present, every time a firearm is found, Royal Mail’s operations are halted as police have to be alerted. Prohibiting firearms should mean less disruption. Any firearms found would be handed over to the police who would return lawful firearms to their owners.

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UK Postcomm consults on a long term licence for Mail Plus

Posted by | Dec 12, 2004 | |

Postcomm on 2 December 2004 began a consultation on the proposed issue of a long term licence to Mail Plus Ltd to provide bulk mail and consolidation services. Today’s document says that Postcomm is minded, subject to consultation, to grant a licence to Mail Plus. It suggests that the proposed services will have no appreciable adverse effect on the provision of a universal service throughout the UK and will further the interests of users by promoting competition between postal operators. If issued, the licence will contain a requirement for Mail Plus to maintain separate accounts for its UK licensed business to show that it is not being unfairly cross-subsidised by its parent company, La Poste.

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No plans for UK Royal Mail sell-off

Posted by | Dec 12, 2004 | |

The Government today insisted it had no plans to sell off the Royal Mail.

The Department for Trade and Industry said ministers were not planning to privatise any element of the business.

A spokeswoman said: “We have no plans to privatise the Post Office, no plans at all. We have no plans to privatise any element of it.”

The unequivocal statement comes after reports that Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton has privately been given permission to privatise a huge chunk of the business.

He has apparently been trying to persuade ministers it is the only way to ensure the company’s survival beyond 2007 when rival firms will be able to bid for contracts to deliver letters and parcels anywhere in Britain.

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UK Royal Mail set for partial privatisation

Posted by | Dec 12, 2004 | |

Royal Mail Group PLC chairman Allan Leighton has won a private pledge from the British government that he can partially privatise the 368-year-old mail delivery company, the Mail on Sunday reported.

The paper said the decision was the price Leighton demanded for staying on at the company for another three years.

The decision to hand 20 pct of the business to workers and sell off 31 pct on the market for around 4 bln stg could put Leighton on a collision course with the powerful Communication Workers Union.

Leighton reportedly plans to use some of the proceeds from the sale towards plugging the 2.5 bln stg hole in the Royal Mail’s pension fund in an effort to quell opposition.

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UK Royal Mail sell-off wins go-ahead, says paper

Posted by | Dec 12, 2004 | |

Royal Mail Chairman Allan Leighton has won a private pledge from the government that he can partially privatise the state-owned postal service, the Financial Mail on Sunday has reported. But the Department of Trade and Industry denied there were any such plans. “We have no plans to privatise the Royal Mail,” said a department spokeswoman. The paper said the privatisation deal was the price Leighton demanded to stay on for another three years. On Thursday, the government said Leighton will serve a further three years as chairman of the Royal Mail, until March 2008. Leighton has been given the green light to hand 20 percent of the business to postal workers, and sell off 31 percent on the stock market for about 4 billion pounds, but this will put him on a collision course with the Communication Workers’ Union, the paper said.

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