19 November 2009 - Sarah Sharpe - © Hellmail Postal News

The first Northern Ireland-based operator, Regional Mail Services Limited, has been granted a postal operators licence and is one of two new licences granted this month by Postcomm, the UK postal regulator.

The second was granted to Enerco2 Limited in Hull, delivering mail and packets to business and residential addresses with a forthcoming Green Prepay service where customers are supplied with recycled envelopes at a pre-paid price.

Also this month, Postcomm received four new licence applications from Pedal Post, Greatbatch Limited, Cambridge Postal Services, and Fully Franked Local, leading to some speculation that the rise in applications may have been promted by uncertainty over Royal Mail which has been subject to industrial action in recent years.

The last licence issued was to Product Corporation UK, in early October. Currently 32 licenced operators operate in the UK including:

Citipost AMP Limited, City Cycle Couriers, CFH Total Document Management Limited, City Link Post, CMS, Cycle 4 U, DHL Express Limited, DHL Global Mail (UK) Limited, Document Outsourcing Limited, DX Network Services, Enerco2 Limited, FedEx UK Limited, First Scottish Group Limited, Intercity Communications, LDS Cambridge Limited, Lynx Mail, Nothern Mail, Peoplepost Limited, Post 123, Product Development Corporation, Racer Consultancy Management Services Ltd, Regional Mail Services Limited, Royal Mail Group Limited, Scotpost, Secure Mail Services, Secured Mail Limited, Securipost Limited, TNT Post UK Limited, UK Mail, Wightpost, Yellow Jersey Delivery Limited, and Zip Mail Ltd.

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