The Royal Mail has been allowed by the regulator to prevent Saturday’s delivery for the second category post, effective from July 28. The postal service will discontinue its six-day-week service for second-class letters, taking them to an alternative working schedule.
However, first -class posts will maintain their delivery from Monday to Saturday. Tomcom confirmed that three-work-day distribution targets for second class letters remain unchanged.
Important changes follows comprehensive consultation, aimed at increasing the long -term viability of universal postal service.
Ofcom added, it also started reviewing the price of it Tickets Between concerns on the ability, while it is also determining the new backstop delivery goals so that 99% of the mail is not distributed more than two days.
Natalie Black, group director of COM for Network and Communications, said: “These changes are in the best interest of consumers and businesses, as immediate improvement of postal service is necessary to give it the best opportunity for survival.
“But changing the obligations of Royal Mail will not guarantee a better service alone – the company will now have to play its share and implement it effectively.
“We will ensure that the Royal Mail is clear with its customers what is happening, and passes the benefits of these changes on them.”
Martin Sedenberg, Chief Executive Officer of the group of Royal Mail Parent firm International Distribution Services said: “We welcome today’s announcement.
“This is good news for customers across the UK as it supports the distribution of a reliable, efficient and economically sustainable universal service.
“It follows comprehensive counseling with thousands of people and businesses to ensure that the postal service improves their needs and realities of sending and receiving mail to customers.”
On a change in the Royal Mail Service and the Stamp Review of the offcom, a government spokesperson said: “The public expects a good postal service, in which timely letters coming across the country without the cost of the Earth.
“The way people use postal services, it is right, it is true that the regulator has paid attention to it.
“Now we need a royal mail to work with unions and poses to provide a service to those who expect, and it involves maintaining a price theory to send a letter anywhere in the UK.”
