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...Meanwhile, parcel delivery has become an increasingly central part of the company’s business....
...Royal Mail revenues in the first half fell 11 per cent. Volumes of letters and parcels were down 6 per cent and 16 per cent respectively as a pandemic era boom fades....
...In January hackers disrupted Britain’s Royal Mail parcel delivery service....
...The postal operator, which also runs an international parcels division, has a duty to deliver mail six days a week across the UK at uniform prices....
...The relevance of this is that Royal Mail is the leading parcel operator in the UK with more than 50% market share of total parcel volumes....
...Still, overall, Royal Mail’s combined letter and parcel revenue was down 1 per cent as the parcel uplift could not make up for the relentless letter revenue decline....
...While a US business pays $7-$9 to send a 1lb package from Los Angeles to New York using priority mail retail rates, the USPS receives only $2.50 for a similar package originating in China and travelling...
...Christopher Wray, the FBI director, said the investigation was the “highest priority” for the federal law enforcement agency....
...Royal Mail said that its priority was to reach agreement with the Communication Workers Union “to help underpin the sustainability of the business”....
...Royal Mail is opening six temporary parcel sort centres and recruiting over 20,000 staff to handle the surge. Industrial unrest has broken out at engineer GKN, however....
...DHL, which is owned by the mail and parcel group Deutsche Post, apologised to disappointed KFC customers on Monday....
...But on Monday DHL, owned by the mail and parcel group Deutsche Post, was forced to apologise to disappointed KFC customers....
...The UK’s dominant Royal Mail has also made expanding in parcels a priority....
...However, the Post Office claimed the strike would not affect Royal Mail and the company had put “robust contingency plans in place”....
...What’s most interesting post the NAO report and the revelations about the identities of the “priority investors” — they not only got cheap Royal Mail shares but most also quickly flipped them for profits...
...The mail division will be renamed “post, e-commerce, parcel” to reflect changing priorities....
...Women can be just as ambitious as men to achieve career success, but most also have maternal instincts – which can lead to conflicts over priorities in life....
...“It is simply not practical that mail room staff time is eaten up with personal packages when the priority is handling mail from customers and claimants,” the spokesperson said....
...The trend of declining letter volumes and rising deliveries of parcels continued....
...But long-term investors will have to believe that Royal Mail can sustain growth in parcels revenues to make up for the slump in letters volumes.” Pat felt sad....
...They will have priority if they want to buy extra shares in the retail offer. He told the Commons that privatisation would “give Royal Mail the real commercial freedom it’s needed for a long time”....
...Customers in Europe, where it is the sector leader, are switching from priority delivery to slower, cheaper products....
...Now our priority is to make good progress,” Marie-Christine Lombard, chief executive, told reporters....
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