There are now 29 licensed companies who are able to directly compete with Royal Mail.
Most alternative mail providers, eg UK Mail / TNT / Fedex, contract out to Royal Mail as their "last mile" provider, meaning that mail sent through these services, who often have extortionate minimum quantity levels for businesses, will still suffer delays.
Cycle 4 U, on the other hand, doesn't rely on Royal Mail for deliveries.
6 / 07 / 2009 - Postcomm has issued a new licence to Cycle 4 U.
This enables us to deliver smaller items of mail around Birmingham, whereby most other courier services are heavily restricted on what small items can be carried.
Cycle 4 U now joins the other 26 licensed mail operators, including Royal Mail.
Dow Jones & Company, publishers of the Wall Street Journal, has refitted its billing system for international advertisers with ‘groundbreaking’ worldwide address entry and validation software from Postcode Anywhere...
The Communication Workers Union today backed the withdrawal of many bicycles in use by the Royal Mail, saying that to modernise the business it had to "let go of some of the sentimentality surrounding traditional views of an industry spanning hundreds of years."...
Dutch mail company ABC Mail Group has acquired the international distribution and fulfillment activities of Link2Biz International NV based in Kortenberg, Belgium...
ONEPOST, the UK’s leading provider of independent postal advice and management, has been awarded a framework agreement for Postal Services to fulfil public sector requirements...
Estonian Post and IIZI Insurance Brokers have signed an agreement which will access to services provided by insurance companies via post office outlets...
RS Components, the world’s largest distributor of electronics and maintenance products, has awarded TNT Express a new contract to carry out all its domestic deliveries in France and Italy. This is new business for TNT in Italy and a contract renewal for TNT in France...
The UK coalition government looks set for a lively if not bruising confrontation with the Communication Workers Union over the coming months if it follows recommendations to part privatise the Royal Mail, which, according to the Telegraph newspaper, are to be announced next week...
