Royal Mail has set out plans to open ten temporary parcel sorting centres to cater for the expected Christmas rush. It also plans to invest £130m in hand held technology over the next five years to improve its delivery service
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Royal Mail has thrown down a challenge to its competitors by cutting the price for its small parcel product in the run up to Christmas. From 20th October, customers will be able to send bigger parcels for £2.80 – saving up to £1 per delivery
Royal Mail has created a new parcels shipping and tracking application programming interface (API) for business account customers to improve integration between their IT systems and Royal Mail
Royal Mail is extending its click and collect service to 20,000 SME contract customers. Customers can opt to collect parcels from one of 10,500 post offices around the country
Royal Mail has set out a series of initiatives to counter falling revenues in its parcels business resulting from increased competition in the market
Competition from TNT Post UK could cost Royal Mail more than £200m by 2017-18 threatening the universal postal service, Moya Greene, CEO of Royal Mail, has warned in the group’s annual results
Parcelforce, Royal Mail’s express parcels business, is to launch a Sunday delivery service in June for online shoppers through participating e-retailers
Royal Mail plans to cut 1,600 managerial jobs in a move designed to save some £50 million a year. The net reduction will be 1,300 as it plans to create 300 new or enhanced roles
Postal workers have overwhelmingly backed a deal with Royal Mail which gives them pay rises total 9.06 per cent over three years as well as legally binding job security commitments
Revenue from parcels rose eight per cent at Royal Mail for the nine months ended 29th December, despite the fact that the volume of parcels handled was unchanged
