Fears for Christmas trade as Royal Mail puts cap on collections

[TopperGas]

The full story is hidden behind pay wall but basically it seems that RM are going to limit retail customers to three times their normal deliveries at Christmas. It seems an odd move to basically try and stop them from using RM to deliver their packets and parcels at over Christmas?

If retail customers are forced to use an alternative delivery company over Christmas will they them move all their custom to the alternative supplies?

https://www.thetimes.com/business/entre ... -wms7bbtmt

[NWpostie]

Madness

[SpacePhoenix]

They'll probably just use DSA, then RM still has to deliver the same amount but gets less money for it.

[taurus88]

They obviously realised how disastrous the new revisions will be and are trying to mitigate that somewhat, especially with parcel volumes already at ridiculous highs for this time of year.

[TopperGas]

They'll probably just use DSA, then RM still has to deliver the same amount but gets less money for it.

I thought DSA was for letters not packets/parcels?

[TopperGas]

They obviously realised how disastrous the new revisions will be and are trying to mitigate that somewhat, especially with parcel volumes already at ridiculous highs for this time of year.

Most likely but it still seems odd to turn away parcel business, which you have to assume is the most profitable.

[Mr Rush]

They obviously realised how disastrous the new revisions will be and are trying to mitigate that somewhat, especially with parcel volumes already at ridiculous highs for this time of year.

Nothing unique about the pending DM26 shitshow. This story is from 2023 when Christmas was long since out of control...

Business account customers will be asked to pay a new 2p green surcharge.
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Business account customers will also be asked to pay an additional peak surcharge of 5p for letters and 10p for parcels later in the month.
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A Royal Mail spokesperson said:[...] "Other parcel carriers already apply a similar surcharge during the Christmas period."