50 Most Popular 2011 Hellmail Articles >>
The following list shows the 50 most read news items from Hellmail Postal News since January 1st 2011. They are generatated automatically and displayed in order of the most read article.
UK Postal Services Bill Strengthened
13 April 2011
The Government has today published a number of amendments to strengthen the Postal Services Bill. The changes incorporate feedback from MPs, Lords, Royal Mail, other postal operators and the Communication Workers Union, as well as other interested parties...
(This article read 1896 times)
Royal Mail - Postal Service Bill Returns To Commons
12 January 2011
With the third reading of the Postal Services Bill to be made in the House of Commons today, followed by a debate in the House of Lords at a later date, the arguments for and against the privatisation of the Royal Mail continue. The Brits are enormously sensitive, if not proud when it comes to their postal service and no less so when its future, at least according to the government, rests on it being sold...
(This article read 1827 times)
Spain Increases Stamp Prices
02 January 2011
Spanish postal operator Correos is one of a handful of European postal operators to increase the price of postage rates this month. It said the increases were essential for it to continue to provide an efficient and high quality universal service...
(This article read 1789 times)
Royal Mail Stamp Prices To Rise From Monday
30 March 2011
Royal Mail is increasing the cost of stamps from the 4th April - a rise of 5p on first class stamps and 4p on second class. The overall increase to stamped mail prices will be around 10% and wholesale prices to rise in May...
(This article read 1731 times)
Franking - Way To Beat Postage Prices
11 January 2011
With April fast approaching, the Royal Mail has announced its annual price increase for postal rates. From 4th April, the prices of 1st & 2nd class stamps are set to rise to 46p and 36p respectively - an increase of 5p on 1st class and 4p on 2nd class...
(This article read 1642 times)
Postcomm Criticised As Postal Bill Returns To Lords
07 April 2011
As the Postal Services Bill returned to the Lords yesterday, the role of UK postal regulator Postcomm came in for criticism, at one point described as "bringing the Royal Mail to its financial knees". Other concerns included the lack of clarity for members of the Royal Mail Pension Plan...
(This article read 1592 times)
Royal Mail CWU Relationship Turns Sour With Possible Strike Action
04 April 2011
The Communication Workers Union has warned that unless Royal Mail honours agreements made in March 2010 and comes clean on its present financial status, it may consider industrial action...
(This article read 1588 times)
Canadian Postal Strike Reaches Stalemate
17 June 2011
Canada Post defended its decision to cease operations this week after 12 days of rotating strikes by members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). It said it could no longer afford to allow the strike action to continue and had decided to bring matters to a head...
(This article read 1585 times)
Postal Union Raises Concerns Over Royal Mail Financial Status
29 March 2011
Tension continues between the Communication Workers Union and the Royal Mail this week as the CWU puts pressure on Royal Mail to disclose its financial status after the announcement that staff shares are likely to be worthless and some London mail centres are to be shut down or see reduced staff numbers. Industrial action has not been ruled out...
(This article read 1570 times)
Mary Fagan Follows Adam Crozier To ITV
17 January 2011
Mary Fagan, Corporate and Government Affairs Director for the Royal Mail is to follow ex-Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier to ITV. She will be responsible for ITV’s corporate communications and public affairs operations...
(This article read 1556 times)
Postcomm To Review Royal Mail Access Agreements
03 March 2011
UK postal regulator Postcomm, is to review the present regulatory regime surrounding access agreements with Royal Mail and the way in which existing legislation will be impacted by the progress of the Postal Services Bill 2010....
(This article read 1546 times)
Queens Head To Remain On UK Stamps
09 January 2011
After concerns were expressed that plans to privatise the Royal Mail included no fixed provision to retain the image of her majesty the Queen on UK postage stamps, the Postal Services Bill is to be amended to safeguard future postage stamps should there be a design change...
(This article read 1540 times)
Royal Mail VAT Changes Come Into Force Next Week
26 January 2011
From the 31st January 2011, many Royal Mail products will become subject to VAT for the first time. For international services, there are some price changes, but not to Airmail or Surface Mail. The cost of a stamp will be unaffected although a rise in the cost of stamps is to come into force from April this year...
(This article read 1538 times)
uShip Joins Fair Fuel UK Campaign
14 January 2011
uShip, the world’s first and largest transport marketplace, announced today it is joining the campaign for Fair Fuel prices in the United Kingdom. The Internet company is encouraging both transporters and shipping customers alike to sign the petition...
(This article read 1533 times)
Selling Royal Mail - A tough Proposition
21 February 2011
It looks increasingly likely that the UK government will struggle to find a buyer for the Royal Mail that would take on its mail division unless there were more sweeping changes made to the way it operates...
(This article read 1525 times)
Postcomm - Royal Mail Wholesale Pricing
07 February 2011
UK postal regulator Postcomm, announced last week that the Royal Mail has published indicative wholesale prices for 2011-12, which take into account Postcomm's November proposal to move to a wholesale led form of price control...
(This article read 1516 times)
Seminar To Discuss Future Of UK Postal Services
13 January 2011
A forthcoming seminar in London will examine the future of Royal Mail, Post Office Ltd, and the universal postal service. With a keynote address from Richard Hooper, Chair of the Postal Services Review, the agenda is being structured to reflect issues emanating from the Review’s findings, as well as an examination of the future prospects for the Royal Mail and the UK’s universal postal service in the digital age...
(This article read 1470 times)
Royal Mail Pushed To Breaking Point
21 March 2011
The Royal Mail is expected to make a formal statement concerning the value of staff shares which it predicts will be worth almost nothing by the end of this year. The announcement is also expected to say that the UK's incumbent postal operator is downgrading future expectations of the business following a fall in revenues and slower than expected progress on its modernisation plans. It is also to cut 1,700 jobs and close two mail centres in London...
(This article read 1469 times)
Checkout - The Real And The Not So Real In Volume Decline
12 May 2011
Robert Donderwinkel, managing director of the European Envelope Manufacturers Association is shortly to take on a new role outside the industry and back in his home country of New Zealand. This might seem unremarkable enough - after all people do move in and out of the industry but his..
(This article read 1461 times)
Collect Plus Collects Cost-Conscious Customers
04 February 2011
An independent parcel network which uses convenience stores and other outlets as despatch and collection points and cheaper than Royal Mail, is proving to be popular with customers. Collect+, established in 2009, relies on the Home Delivery Network, one of the UK’s largest courier networks, delivering over 100m parcels a year, with shop terminals provided by PayPoint...
(This article read 1451 times)
Canadian Postal Workers Could Be Forced Back To Work
24 June 2011
The Canadian government is debating a 'back to work' Bill which could see Canadian postal workers forced to return to work after a bitter dispute that has seen 12 days of rotating strikes, a lockout by Canada Post and 72 hours of talks without resolution on Wednesday...
(This article read 1403 times)
Postal Workers To Protest In Kingston On Saturday
20 January 2011
Hundreds of postal workers in the UK are expected to descend on Kingston town centre this Saturday to protest against government plans to privatise Royal Mail which are being pushed through by Kingston MP Ed Davey...
(This article read 1374 times)
Modernisation Plans On Track Says Royal Mail
16 January 2011
Suggestions that plans to modernise delivery methods throughout Royal Mail had been suspended in some areas of the UK, have been denied by Royal Mail. The operator is clearing mail backlogs it said were the result of the worst winter weather in 30 years. In 2010, a three-year agreement was reached between Royal Mail bosses and the CWU to introduce new delivery methods which would see postal workers receive bonuses for the successful implementation of each phase of the restructuring....
(This article read 1370 times)
Postal Services Bill Third Reading - Part 2
12 January 2011
Proposed changes to the Postal Services Bill were rejected today. They included a firm committment to establish a ten year commercial agreement between Royal Mail and Post Office Ltd and additional protections for the USO. Ed Davey, Postal Affairs Minister said: "Royal Mail needs to modernise. It's business is changing with the impact of the digital world."..
(This article read 1364 times)
Postal Services Bill Third Reading - Part 1
12 January 2011
The third reading of the Postal Services Bill began this afternoon in the Commons. Concerns centered around the relationship between Royal Mail and Post Office Ltd (the network interbusiness agreement or IBA), in particular that there was no cast-iron guarantee of future business from government departments. There was also criticism that the previous government spent as much closing post offices as it gained in any savings made through closures...
(This article read 1361 times)
Slovenian Post Pushes For Free Parcel Returns Across Europe
07 February 2011
Slovenian Post has concluded an agreement with Deutsche Post that will allow customers who buy items online from Germany, to return them free of charge. Slovemian Post is trying to encourage all European countries to offer a similar service which it says will accelerarate the exchange of goods between countries and promote confidence in distance selling...
(This article read 1345 times)
Parcels To Cyprus Not Straightforward
08 January 2011
A parcel apparently sent within the European Union can result in real problems as one trader found out recently. Despite the fact that Cyprus is regarded as part of the EU, only Turkey recognises the North of Cyprus and most if not all parcel operators and parcel brokers simply list 'Cyprus' as the destination without a clear definition of north or south...
(This article read 1318 times)
Royal Mail Privatisation Is Urgent Says Davey
11 January 2011
In advance of the final stages of the Postal Services Bill in the House of Commons tomorrow, Minister for Postal Affairs Edward Davey has today set out the urgency of the Government’s plans, describing the Royal Mail and the Post Office as being at a "crossroads"....
(This article read 1317 times)
The Trouble With Royal Mail
23 March 2011
The revelation that staff Colleagueshares at Royal Mail are likely to be practically worthless, are I suspect, the tip of a mammoth iceberg. The Royal Mail has now reached a point where mail decline is overtaking its attempts to reduce operating costs and paying the wage bill is becoming a major challenge...
(This article read 1313 times)
Royal Mail Profitability - Grim Reading
14 June 2011
The Royal Mail announced today that it is losing £2m a week in its UK Letters & Parcels and International business with a marked decline in profitability across much of the group . The news comes just days after a new Bill was approved in the Commons - paving the way for part or full privatisation of the Royal Mail....
(This article read 1308 times)
Whistle Blowers - For The Good Of Whom
07 January 2011
I have often been accused of being too moralistic as editor, but I take the view that whistle-blowing should be for the 'greater good' rather than being purely sensationalist and that there are consequences, not least of which are the lives and families of others. I am continually tested in this regard and have deliberately held back or suppressed stories where I felt that the potential damage to others through publication was far greater than any perceived benefit...
(This article read 1290 times)
Pitney Bowes Launches Four White Papers
31 January 2011
Pitney Bowes has launched a new series of free white papers on the theme of customer communications management. The four white papers focus on research conducted by Pitney Bowes amongst business-to-business (B2B) organisations in the UK, France, Germany and USA...
(This article read 1281 times)
Pitney Bowes Announces Updated Hybrid Mail Solution
14 February 2011
Pitney Bowes has introduced the latest version of its P/I OfficeMail™ software - an innovative, secure hybrid mail solution that automates the process of mailing desk-top generated documents...
(This article read 1254 times)
Norway Launches National Digital Mail Service
12 January 2011
Norway Post is to launch a digital mail system in Norway, allowing customers to choose whether they wish to receive mail in digital format alongside their regular mailbox. The move is seen as significant, and potentially heralds wider use of digital mail services amongst postal users not only in Norway, but across Europe...
(This article read 1248 times)
Royal Mail Falls Short On Quality Of Service
28 February 2011
The Royal Mail today received criticism from Consumer Focus, following the publication of its Quality of Service report, saying that disruptions caused by fine-tuning of its modernisation programme and poor communication with customers in some areas needed addressing...
(This article read 1230 times)
Royal Mail Sale - New Era
09 June 2011
Whilst the sell off may not be welcomed by everyone, both the coalition government and the previous Labour government have been doggedly determined to push privatisation through. A huge pension deficit said to be around £8bn prompted two key reports by Richard Hooper CBE to examine in some detail, whether the Royal Mail was fit to deliver the universal service in the long or even short term...
(This article read 1229 times)
Is There A Meltdown In The Post?
17 April 2011
With the Middle East oil crisis pushing fuel prices ever higher, independent postal operators could be forgiven for feeling that they are stuck between a rock and a hard place, with destiny out of their hands. Talking to Hellmail, Tom Kilroy, sales and business development director at Secured Mail, attempts to make sense of it all...
(This article read 1221 times)
Royal Mail Privatisation Not The Way Forward Says Ward
18 February 2011
The Communication Workers Union, which launched a "Keep The Post Public" campaign, says that unless the postal service remains in public hands the universal service will suffer and that the Bill does nothing to help strengthen the Post Office network.Others within the CWU have pointed to the trend across Europe where post offices have been forcibly closed and facilities moved into supermarkets and other retail outlets...
(This article read 1209 times)
Postal Bill Moves To Lords This Month
14 January 2011
The second reading in the House of Lords for the Postal Services Bill will begin on the 25th January. Postal Affairs Minister Ed Davey has already signalled his wish to accelerate the passage of the Bill...
(This article read 1198 times)
Red Van Men Back On The Road
15 June 2011
Scotland’s biggest independent courier firm is welcoming a number of old friends back to its fleet following a two year shortage of red vans in Europe...
(This article read 1198 times)
Future For Post Offices - The Sunday Piece
05 March 2011
I found it interesting that following the announcement that Post Office Ltd had lost the Green Giro payment scheme to PayPoint, the government rather quickly announced (the following day in fact) that there are plans in the pipeline to boost business at post offices with a £73m Credit Union investment...
(This article read 1198 times)
Postcomm Seeks To Remove Bulk Mail From Universal Service
01 March 2011
Postcomm, the UK postal regulator, today launched a consultation on the next phase of its analysis of markets work, setting out its provisional conclusions on retail market definitions and whether Royal Mail has market power in these markets. Last week Postcomm proposed that bulk mail products should be removed from the universal service....
(This article read 1177 times)
Russian Post Gives Customers Chance To Win Apartment
02 February 2011
Russian Post this week launched a new all-Russian People's housing lottery with customers being given the chance to win a new apartment of their own - a joint initiative of the federal postal operator and the Gosloto, the Russian National Lottery. Proceeds will go towards implementing a national project to create affordable housing in Russia...
(This article read 1173 times)
CWU Accuses Royal Mail Of Destroying Trust
22 March 2011
The deputy general secretary of the Communication Workers Union today accused Royal Mail of destroying any remaining trust that postal workers had in the company after the announcement that the value of staff shares had plummeted...
(This article read 1145 times)
Slimmed Down Royal Mail Predicted
08 June 2011
Privatisation of the Royal Mail will move a step closer tomorrow as MPs argue the final details of the sell off prior to the Bill moving to Royal Assent. Despite attempts by the Royal Mail to claw back lost business and reduce operating costs, further job losses seem inevitable, potentially breaking a long track record in finding alternative employment...
(This article read 1141 times)
USPS Faces Greater Downsizing Or Huge Price Hikes
21 February 2011
The US Postal Service which like many postal operators has seen stamped mail continue to fall as users migrate to email and text messaging faces the prospect of being unable to meet its financial commitments unless it downsizes further...
(This article read 1135 times)
Classical Composers Commemorated By New Stamps
27 January 2011
Cyprus Post has issued a new trio of impressive stamps marking the work of three of our most famous 18th century famous composers - Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. They go on sale today (28th January 2011).
(This article read 1131 times)
Resistance Is Futile - Future Of UK Postal Services
14 January 2011
The long delays for many postal deliveries over the Christmas period have been blamed on snowfall and icy roads, but there are also those who say that backlogged mail has been made far worse through the closure of mail centers and the introduction of cost cutting measures at the delivery end after the Royal Mail instigated a nationwide plan to restructure and reduce costs...
(This article read 1114 times)
Royal Mail Bulk Price Increases Get Green Light
16 February 2011
Postcomm, the UK postal regulator, confirmed today that it is giving the green light to price increases on bulk mail at the Royal Mail as well as reducing regulatory restrictions which it said would allow the Royal Mail to compete and help safeguard the universal service provision...
(This article read 1046 times)
The Englishman Who Posted Himself
20 January 2011
John Tingey talks about the man who enjoyed testing the official Post Office Regulations to their limits by posting items including a frying pan, a turnip, seaweed and even himself on more than one occasion...
(This article read 1045 times)
13 April 2011
The Government has today published a number of amendments to strengthen the Postal Services Bill. The changes incorporate feedback from MPs, Lords, Royal Mail, other postal operators and the Communication Workers Union, as well as other interested parties...(This article read 1896 times)
Royal Mail - Postal Service Bill Returns To Commons
12 January 2011
With the third reading of the Postal Services Bill to be made in the House of Commons today, followed by a debate in the House of Lords at a later date, the arguments for and against the privatisation of the Royal Mail continue. The Brits are enormously sensitive, if not proud when it comes to their postal service and no less so when its future, at least according to the government, rests on it being sold...(This article read 1827 times)
Spain Increases Stamp Prices
02 January 2011
Spanish postal operator Correos is one of a handful of European postal operators to increase the price of postage rates this month. It said the increases were essential for it to continue to provide an efficient and high quality universal service...
(This article read 1789 times)
Royal Mail Stamp Prices To Rise From Monday
30 March 2011
Royal Mail is increasing the cost of stamps from the 4th April - a rise of 5p on first class stamps and 4p on second class. The overall increase to stamped mail prices will be around 10% and wholesale prices to rise in May...(This article read 1731 times)
Franking - Way To Beat Postage Prices
11 January 2011
With April fast approaching, the Royal Mail has announced its annual price increase for postal rates. From 4th April, the prices of 1st & 2nd class stamps are set to rise to 46p and 36p respectively - an increase of 5p on 1st class and 4p on 2nd class...
(This article read 1642 times)
Postcomm Criticised As Postal Bill Returns To Lords
07 April 2011
As the Postal Services Bill returned to the Lords yesterday, the role of UK postal regulator Postcomm came in for criticism, at one point described as "bringing the Royal Mail to its financial knees". Other concerns included the lack of clarity for members of the Royal Mail Pension Plan...(This article read 1592 times)
Royal Mail CWU Relationship Turns Sour With Possible Strike Action
04 April 2011
The Communication Workers Union has warned that unless Royal Mail honours agreements made in March 2010 and comes clean on its present financial status, it may consider industrial action...(This article read 1588 times)
Canadian Postal Strike Reaches Stalemate
17 June 2011
Canada Post defended its decision to cease operations this week after 12 days of rotating strikes by members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). It said it could no longer afford to allow the strike action to continue and had decided to bring matters to a head...
(This article read 1585 times)
Postal Union Raises Concerns Over Royal Mail Financial Status
29 March 2011
Tension continues between the Communication Workers Union and the Royal Mail this week as the CWU puts pressure on Royal Mail to disclose its financial status after the announcement that staff shares are likely to be worthless and some London mail centres are to be shut down or see reduced staff numbers. Industrial action has not been ruled out...
(This article read 1570 times)
Mary Fagan Follows Adam Crozier To ITV
17 January 2011
Mary Fagan, Corporate and Government Affairs Director for the Royal Mail is to follow ex-Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier to ITV. She will be responsible for ITV’s corporate communications and public affairs operations...
(This article read 1556 times)
Postcomm To Review Royal Mail Access Agreements
03 March 2011
UK postal regulator Postcomm, is to review the present regulatory regime surrounding access agreements with Royal Mail and the way in which existing legislation will be impacted by the progress of the Postal Services Bill 2010....
(This article read 1546 times)
Queens Head To Remain On UK Stamps
09 January 2011
After concerns were expressed that plans to privatise the Royal Mail included no fixed provision to retain the image of her majesty the Queen on UK postage stamps, the Postal Services Bill is to be amended to safeguard future postage stamps should there be a design change...(This article read 1540 times)
Royal Mail VAT Changes Come Into Force Next Week
26 January 2011
From the 31st January 2011, many Royal Mail products will become subject to VAT for the first time. For international services, there are some price changes, but not to Airmail or Surface Mail. The cost of a stamp will be unaffected although a rise in the cost of stamps is to come into force from April this year...(This article read 1538 times)
uShip Joins Fair Fuel UK Campaign
14 January 2011
uShip, the world’s first and largest transport marketplace, announced today it is joining the campaign for Fair Fuel prices in the United Kingdom. The Internet company is encouraging both transporters and shipping customers alike to sign the petition...(This article read 1533 times)
Selling Royal Mail - A tough Proposition
21 February 2011
It looks increasingly likely that the UK government will struggle to find a buyer for the Royal Mail that would take on its mail division unless there were more sweeping changes made to the way it operates...(This article read 1525 times)
Postcomm - Royal Mail Wholesale Pricing
07 February 2011
UK postal regulator Postcomm, announced last week that the Royal Mail has published indicative wholesale prices for 2011-12, which take into account Postcomm's November proposal to move to a wholesale led form of price control...
(This article read 1516 times)
Seminar To Discuss Future Of UK Postal Services
13 January 2011
A forthcoming seminar in London will examine the future of Royal Mail, Post Office Ltd, and the universal postal service. With a keynote address from Richard Hooper, Chair of the Postal Services Review, the agenda is being structured to reflect issues emanating from the Review’s findings, as well as an examination of the future prospects for the Royal Mail and the UK’s universal postal service in the digital age...(This article read 1470 times)
Royal Mail Pushed To Breaking Point
21 March 2011
The Royal Mail is expected to make a formal statement concerning the value of staff shares which it predicts will be worth almost nothing by the end of this year. The announcement is also expected to say that the UK's incumbent postal operator is downgrading future expectations of the business following a fall in revenues and slower than expected progress on its modernisation plans. It is also to cut 1,700 jobs and close two mail centres in London...(This article read 1469 times)
Checkout - The Real And The Not So Real In Volume Decline
12 May 2011
Robert Donderwinkel, managing director of the European Envelope Manufacturers Association is shortly to take on a new role outside the industry and back in his home country of New Zealand. This might seem unremarkable enough - after all people do move in and out of the industry but his..(This article read 1461 times)
Collect Plus Collects Cost-Conscious Customers
04 February 2011
An independent parcel network which uses convenience stores and other outlets as despatch and collection points and cheaper than Royal Mail, is proving to be popular with customers. Collect+, established in 2009, relies on the Home Delivery Network, one of the UK’s largest courier networks, delivering over 100m parcels a year, with shop terminals provided by PayPoint...
(This article read 1451 times)
Canadian Postal Workers Could Be Forced Back To Work
24 June 2011
The Canadian government is debating a 'back to work' Bill which could see Canadian postal workers forced to return to work after a bitter dispute that has seen 12 days of rotating strikes, a lockout by Canada Post and 72 hours of talks without resolution on Wednesday...
(This article read 1403 times)
Postal Workers To Protest In Kingston On Saturday
20 January 2011
Hundreds of postal workers in the UK are expected to descend on Kingston town centre this Saturday to protest against government plans to privatise Royal Mail which are being pushed through by Kingston MP Ed Davey...
(This article read 1374 times)
Modernisation Plans On Track Says Royal Mail
16 January 2011
Suggestions that plans to modernise delivery methods throughout Royal Mail had been suspended in some areas of the UK, have been denied by Royal Mail. The operator is clearing mail backlogs it said were the result of the worst winter weather in 30 years. In 2010, a three-year agreement was reached between Royal Mail bosses and the CWU to introduce new delivery methods which would see postal workers receive bonuses for the successful implementation of each phase of the restructuring....(This article read 1370 times)
Postal Services Bill Third Reading - Part 2
12 January 2011
Proposed changes to the Postal Services Bill were rejected today. They included a firm committment to establish a ten year commercial agreement between Royal Mail and Post Office Ltd and additional protections for the USO. Ed Davey, Postal Affairs Minister said: "Royal Mail needs to modernise. It's business is changing with the impact of the digital world."..(This article read 1364 times)
Postal Services Bill Third Reading - Part 1
12 January 2011
The third reading of the Postal Services Bill began this afternoon in the Commons. Concerns centered around the relationship between Royal Mail and Post Office Ltd (the network interbusiness agreement or IBA), in particular that there was no cast-iron guarantee of future business from government departments. There was also criticism that the previous government spent as much closing post offices as it gained in any savings made through closures...(This article read 1361 times)
Slovenian Post Pushes For Free Parcel Returns Across Europe
07 February 2011
Slovenian Post has concluded an agreement with Deutsche Post that will allow customers who buy items online from Germany, to return them free of charge. Slovemian Post is trying to encourage all European countries to offer a similar service which it says will accelerarate the exchange of goods between countries and promote confidence in distance selling...
(This article read 1345 times)
Parcels To Cyprus Not Straightforward
08 January 2011
A parcel apparently sent within the European Union can result in real problems as one trader found out recently. Despite the fact that Cyprus is regarded as part of the EU, only Turkey recognises the North of Cyprus and most if not all parcel operators and parcel brokers simply list 'Cyprus' as the destination without a clear definition of north or south...
(This article read 1318 times)
Royal Mail Privatisation Is Urgent Says Davey
11 January 2011
In advance of the final stages of the Postal Services Bill in the House of Commons tomorrow, Minister for Postal Affairs Edward Davey has today set out the urgency of the Government’s plans, describing the Royal Mail and the Post Office as being at a "crossroads"....(This article read 1317 times)
The Trouble With Royal Mail
23 March 2011
The revelation that staff Colleagueshares at Royal Mail are likely to be practically worthless, are I suspect, the tip of a mammoth iceberg. The Royal Mail has now reached a point where mail decline is overtaking its attempts to reduce operating costs and paying the wage bill is becoming a major challenge... (This article read 1313 times)
Royal Mail Profitability - Grim Reading
14 June 2011
The Royal Mail announced today that it is losing £2m a week in its UK Letters & Parcels and International business with a marked decline in profitability across much of the group . The news comes just days after a new Bill was approved in the Commons - paving the way for part or full privatisation of the Royal Mail....
(This article read 1308 times)
Whistle Blowers - For The Good Of Whom
07 January 2011
I have often been accused of being too moralistic as editor, but I take the view that whistle-blowing should be for the 'greater good' rather than being purely sensationalist and that there are consequences, not least of which are the lives and families of others. I am continually tested in this regard and have deliberately held back or suppressed stories where I felt that the potential damage to others through publication was far greater than any perceived benefit...(This article read 1290 times)
Pitney Bowes Launches Four White Papers
31 January 2011
Pitney Bowes has launched a new series of free white papers on the theme of customer communications management. The four white papers focus on research conducted by Pitney Bowes amongst business-to-business (B2B) organisations in the UK, France, Germany and USA...
(This article read 1281 times)
Pitney Bowes Announces Updated Hybrid Mail Solution
14 February 2011
Pitney Bowes has introduced the latest version of its P/I OfficeMail™ software - an innovative, secure hybrid mail solution that automates the process of mailing desk-top generated documents...
(This article read 1254 times)
Norway Launches National Digital Mail Service
12 January 2011
Norway Post is to launch a digital mail system in Norway, allowing customers to choose whether they wish to receive mail in digital format alongside their regular mailbox. The move is seen as significant, and potentially heralds wider use of digital mail services amongst postal users not only in Norway, but across Europe...(This article read 1248 times)
Royal Mail Falls Short On Quality Of Service
28 February 2011
The Royal Mail today received criticism from Consumer Focus, following the publication of its Quality of Service report, saying that disruptions caused by fine-tuning of its modernisation programme and poor communication with customers in some areas needed addressing...(This article read 1230 times)
Royal Mail Sale - New Era
09 June 2011
Whilst the sell off may not be welcomed by everyone, both the coalition government and the previous Labour government have been doggedly determined to push privatisation through. A huge pension deficit said to be around £8bn prompted two key reports by Richard Hooper CBE to examine in some detail, whether the Royal Mail was fit to deliver the universal service in the long or even short term...(This article read 1229 times)
Is There A Meltdown In The Post?
17 April 2011
With the Middle East oil crisis pushing fuel prices ever higher, independent postal operators could be forgiven for feeling that they are stuck between a rock and a hard place, with destiny out of their hands. Talking to Hellmail, Tom Kilroy, sales and business development director at Secured Mail, attempts to make sense of it all...(This article read 1221 times)
Royal Mail Privatisation Not The Way Forward Says Ward
18 February 2011
The Communication Workers Union, which launched a "Keep The Post Public" campaign, says that unless the postal service remains in public hands the universal service will suffer and that the Bill does nothing to help strengthen the Post Office network.Others within the CWU have pointed to the trend across Europe where post offices have been forcibly closed and facilities moved into supermarkets and other retail outlets...(This article read 1209 times)
Postal Bill Moves To Lords This Month
14 January 2011
The second reading in the House of Lords for the Postal Services Bill will begin on the 25th January. Postal Affairs Minister Ed Davey has already signalled his wish to accelerate the passage of the Bill...
(This article read 1198 times)
Red Van Men Back On The Road
15 June 2011
Scotland’s biggest independent courier firm is welcoming a number of old friends back to its fleet following a two year shortage of red vans in Europe...(This article read 1198 times)
Future For Post Offices - The Sunday Piece
05 March 2011
I found it interesting that following the announcement that Post Office Ltd had lost the Green Giro payment scheme to PayPoint, the government rather quickly announced (the following day in fact) that there are plans in the pipeline to boost business at post offices with a £73m Credit Union investment...(This article read 1198 times)
Postcomm Seeks To Remove Bulk Mail From Universal Service
01 March 2011
Postcomm, the UK postal regulator, today launched a consultation on the next phase of its analysis of markets work, setting out its provisional conclusions on retail market definitions and whether Royal Mail has market power in these markets. Last week Postcomm proposed that bulk mail products should be removed from the universal service....(This article read 1177 times)
Russian Post Gives Customers Chance To Win Apartment
02 February 2011
Russian Post this week launched a new all-Russian People's housing lottery with customers being given the chance to win a new apartment of their own - a joint initiative of the federal postal operator and the Gosloto, the Russian National Lottery. Proceeds will go towards implementing a national project to create affordable housing in Russia...(This article read 1173 times)
CWU Accuses Royal Mail Of Destroying Trust
22 March 2011
The deputy general secretary of the Communication Workers Union today accused Royal Mail of destroying any remaining trust that postal workers had in the company after the announcement that the value of staff shares had plummeted...(This article read 1145 times)
Slimmed Down Royal Mail Predicted
08 June 2011
Privatisation of the Royal Mail will move a step closer tomorrow as MPs argue the final details of the sell off prior to the Bill moving to Royal Assent. Despite attempts by the Royal Mail to claw back lost business and reduce operating costs, further job losses seem inevitable, potentially breaking a long track record in finding alternative employment...
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USPS Faces Greater Downsizing Or Huge Price Hikes
21 February 2011
The US Postal Service which like many postal operators has seen stamped mail continue to fall as users migrate to email and text messaging faces the prospect of being unable to meet its financial commitments unless it downsizes further...(This article read 1135 times)
Classical Composers Commemorated By New Stamps
27 January 2011
Cyprus Post has issued a new trio of impressive stamps marking the work of three of our most famous 18th century famous composers - Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. They go on sale today (28th January 2011).(This article read 1131 times)
Resistance Is Futile - Future Of UK Postal Services
14 January 2011
The long delays for many postal deliveries over the Christmas period have been blamed on snowfall and icy roads, but there are also those who say that backlogged mail has been made far worse through the closure of mail centers and the introduction of cost cutting measures at the delivery end after the Royal Mail instigated a nationwide plan to restructure and reduce costs...(This article read 1114 times)
Royal Mail Bulk Price Increases Get Green Light
16 February 2011
Postcomm, the UK postal regulator, confirmed today that it is giving the green light to price increases on bulk mail at the Royal Mail as well as reducing regulatory restrictions which it said would allow the Royal Mail to compete and help safeguard the universal service provision...(This article read 1046 times)
The Englishman Who Posted Himself
20 January 2011
John Tingey talks about the man who enjoyed testing the official Post Office Regulations to their limits by posting items including a frying pan, a turnip, seaweed and even himself on more than one occasion...(This article read 1045 times)
