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.
Neopost Limited has announced it has become the Number One supplier of mailing equipment in both the UK and Europe. Over the past five years, Neopost have gone from being a market challenger to the leading supplier of mailroom equipment in the UK. In 2009, more customers chose Neopost than any other brand when they purchased a new franking machine or folder inserter*....
The Communication Workers Union is to recommend union members accept a new agreement established between the CWU and the Royal Mail last week. The agreement is said to have caused controversy amongst the workforce after it was revealed that D2D (junk mail) payment would be integrated into basic pay, but the union sees the growth of D2D as essential to the future of the business and in ensuring more jobs are retained at the Royal Mail....
Estonian Post is to expand its business activities into Latvia and Lithuania and with a drive to meet customer expectations, it had steadily increased its focus on developing integral solutions....
Despite the proximity, Northern Ireland postal consumers face an average delivery time of between two and three working days when posting or receiving mail from the Republic of Ireland a major new Consumer Focus Post study reveals today....
An investigation by Postcomm into accusations that some Royal Mail staff had manipulated delivery performance targets has been rumbling on for some time now. I'm not a great admirer of quality systems that rely on snapshot samples at all, and have in the past questioned the validity of these figures, presented to the nation as some kind of depth-gauge of performance, particularly since 'next day' doesn't always mean the following day...
Hermes, specialists in residential delivery solutions, have taken delivery of two commercial vehicles featuring Bevan21 bodies as part of an ongoing initiative to achieve operating efficiencies and minimise the environmental impact of its fleet...
UK Mail has signed a breakthrough agreement with the Royal Mail enabling the business to extend its mail service into the prolific packets industry. Already collecting up to 17m mail items a day through the letters side of the business, UK Mail’s new Packet+ service will deal with fulfilment items weighing up to 5kg and utilise Royal Mail for the last stage of the delivery cycle, known as the “final mile”...
