• Revised Proposal on Postal Address File Licencing

    Revised Proposal on Postal Address File Licencing

    Last summer, following extensive discussions with Government and its representatives, the Royal Mail published their proposal for simplifying [tooltip tip=”PAF – Postal Address File”]PAF[/tooltip]® licensing and set out substantial reforms to the licensing arrangements. Having listened to the market’s feedback, sought expert advice from the PAF Advisory Board; independent representatives of [tooltip tip=”PAF – Postal…

  • Royal Mail – Quality of Service

    Royal Mail – Quality of Service

    Royal Mail’s latest report reveals that it achieved its quality targets for First Class letters and parcels and was ahead of its Second Class target for this mail after the first three quarters of the 2013/14 financial year. Royal Mail has the highest service specification of any major European country (1)

  • Royal Mail statement on Announcement of CWU Strike Ballot

    Royal Mail statement on Announcement of CWU Strike Ballot

    The CWU’s announced this morning that it will hold a national strike ballot unless agreement is reached with Royal Mail on a range of issues. Please see the statement we have issued in response to below. Royal Mail is disappointed that the CWU intends to call for a national strike ballot A highly competitive pay…

  • Royal Mail to change Printed Postage Impression – PPI

    Royal Mail to change Printed Postage Impression – PPI

    The design of the Royal Mail’s Printed Postage Impression (PPI) is changing by adding ‘Delivered by Royal Mail’ mark to the current PPI designs. Why we are they doing this? The Royal Mail believes it important that their employees role in delivering the mail to communities throughout the UK is fully recognised.

  • Royal Mail to charge VAT on all bulk services

    Royal Mail to charge VAT on all bulk services

    Changes to the way in which the Royal Mail are regulated and how their services attract VAT are due to come into force from 2nd April 2012. Some of the information is still to be detailed but in a nutshell from April if you send mail using the Royal Mail Online Business Account (OBA) or…