as the title says, they said october, so where is it? only two days left
I reckon Uncle Gordon has delayed the release, just in case the bad news damages the Labour Party chances in the forthcoming Fife By Election!!!!
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allyjm wrote:as the title says, they said october, so where is it? only two days left
I reckon Uncle Gordon has delayed the release, just in case the bad news damages the Labour Party chances in the forthcoming Fife By Election!!!!
Apparently Mandy is thinking about extending the review terms so it may be some time.:mfo
With regard to the by election I think that's the reason that the decision on the POCA has been delayed. Rumours are that its going to be spread between 3 firms including the PO. So that's another 2000-3000 PO under threat.
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http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Video ... ingId=2566allyjm wrote:as the title says, they said october, so where is it? only two days left
I reckon Uncle Gordon has delayed the release, just in case the bad news damages the Labour Party chances in the forthcoming Fife By Election!!!!
Will give you a better insight. Main reference to Royal Mail comes near the end of the appearance before the Committee.
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Q95 Mr Hoyle: Straight into Royal Mail and the future of the Post Office. You have dismissed the reports in the FT. Time has moved on but we believe in the Post Office (or I certainly do) and the Post Office network. My concern is I believe that the Government has got to ensure that Royal Mail remains. I hope that you are a supporter of Royal Mail. Some of the key questions about it are: have you any insight into the Post Office Card Account, which will help ensure that we do have a Post Office network? The other key one where we are losing money hand-over-fist is bulk mailing. We know that every private company is being subsidised by the British taxpayer because the cost of universal delivery is more than what we are charging the bulk deliverers. Are you going to renegotiate that and ensure that the good old British taxpayer is not subsidising the likes of TNT right through to Business Post, because that is one of the biggest failings. If we can get a real price increase on that and ensure that Royal Mail makes profit out of the universal delivery, rather than losing money, these are the things that will turn Royal Mail round. The thing that I want to know is, do you stand by the '95 commitment to Royal Mail, which is the manifesto that we stood on, and I am sure that you will have adopted it now you have come back into government?
Lord Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool: The biggest problems facing Royal Mail today are the fall in the volumes of letters being sent through its network, and the size of its pension deficit, which is ballooning. These are not down to the regulator and the current price controls applied to Royal Mail. Volumes were down a further 3% last year. The main reason is that domestic consumers and businesses are moving away from the post and using digital media instead. Now, it has therefore become clear that the market conditions for all postal service operators are challenging, to put it mildly, and it is in the light of these developments, which are not new, that an independent review was set up under Richard Hooper, announced in December 2007. I believe that initial findings paint a rather stark picture of the huge challenges in the postal market: new technologies are transforming the way we communicate and this will only intensify in the coming decade. I do not, if you do not mind, want to be drawn on premature responses or conclusions before I have even seen the Hooper review. There is no set timetable for that review, and indeed I may ask Richard Hooper to widen his review and to examine additional factors. It is too early for me to say, but, nevertheless, I am not prepared to put a timetable on publication as of today, but I can reassure you and Members of this Committee and the public that I remain most strongly committed to the Royal Mail. What we want to see is it being efficient, modernised and viable in the face of dramatically changing structural conditions in the market. It is a tough challenge but it is one I come back to after ten years having been away, and I am up for the job.
Q96 Mr Hoyle: The point on bulk mailing - and you can understand the frustration - that they are being forced to deliver letters at below cost and subsidising those businesses. There is something wrong when the taxpayer is subsidising these private companies, who have an unfair advantage because Royal Mail has to deliver their mail. If they had set up the universal postage delivery, I could understand it; the fact is that we are actually charging them less than what it costs to deliver. Could you look into renegotiating that to ensure that there is a profit in delivering your rivals' letters rather than subsidising your rivals?
Lord Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool: I will look at all those issues, that included, in the wake of the Hooper review when we take delivery of that.
Q95 Mr Hoyle: Straight into Royal Mail and the future of the Post Office. You have dismissed the reports in the FT. Time has moved on but we believe in the Post Office (or I certainly do) and the Post Office network. My concern is I believe that the Government has got to ensure that Royal Mail remains. I hope that you are a supporter of Royal Mail. Some of the key questions about it are: have you any insight into the Post Office Card Account, which will help ensure that we do have a Post Office network? The other key one where we are losing money hand-over-fist is bulk mailing. We know that every private company is being subsidised by the British taxpayer because the cost of universal delivery is more than what we are charging the bulk deliverers. Are you going to renegotiate that and ensure that the good old British taxpayer is not subsidising the likes of TNT right through to Business Post, because that is one of the biggest failings. If we can get a real price increase on that and ensure that Royal Mail makes profit out of the universal delivery, rather than losing money, these are the things that will turn Royal Mail round. The thing that I want to know is, do you stand by the '95 commitment to Royal Mail, which is the manifesto that we stood on, and I am sure that you will have adopted it now you have come back into government?
Lord Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool: The biggest problems facing Royal Mail today are the fall in the volumes of letters being sent through its network, and the size of its pension deficit, which is ballooning. These are not down to the regulator and the current price controls applied to Royal Mail. Volumes were down a further 3% last year. The main reason is that domestic consumers and businesses are moving away from the post and using digital media instead. Now, it has therefore become clear that the market conditions for all postal service operators are challenging, to put it mildly, and it is in the light of these developments, which are not new, that an independent review was set up under Richard Hooper, announced in December 2007. I believe that initial findings paint a rather stark picture of the huge challenges in the postal market: new technologies are transforming the way we communicate and this will only intensify in the coming decade. I do not, if you do not mind, want to be drawn on premature responses or conclusions before I have even seen the Hooper review. There is no set timetable for that review, and indeed I may ask Richard Hooper to widen his review and to examine additional factors. It is too early for me to say, but, nevertheless, I am not prepared to put a timetable on publication as of today, but I can reassure you and Members of this Committee and the public that I remain most strongly committed to the Royal Mail. What we want to see is it being efficient, modernised and viable in the face of dramatically changing structural conditions in the market. It is a tough challenge but it is one I come back to after ten years having been away, and I am up for the job.
Q96 Mr Hoyle: The point on bulk mailing - and you can understand the frustration - that they are being forced to deliver letters at below cost and subsidising those businesses. There is something wrong when the taxpayer is subsidising these private companies, who have an unfair advantage because Royal Mail has to deliver their mail. If they had set up the universal postage delivery, I could understand it; the fact is that we are actually charging them less than what it costs to deliver. Could you look into renegotiating that to ensure that there is a profit in delivering your rivals' letters rather than subsidising your rivals?
Lord Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool: I will look at all those issues, that included, in the wake of the Hooper review when we take delivery of that.
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good posting this. i read the majority of mandys replies he fended off the questions fairly well.however i think royal mail needs to be treated separetly .not many places in business would have d.s.a its like tescos being forced to sell sainsbury baked beans at a cheaper price.lets hope they can get this sorted out sooner rather than later.
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I reckon the government made some sort of guarantees to our competitors on dsa pricing in order to draw them into the market. There is no way all those companies would have invested so much money in sorting machinery etc without assurances that Royal Mail would be prevented from competing.
If you think about it, as long as we are doing the delivering there is no way any other company can compete on price other than by using better or bigger sorting equipment and that advantage will only be short term. Long term we should always have the biggest and best because we are so much bigger than the others so without govt guarantees our competitors would be doomed.
Anyone else think the same?
If you think about it, as long as we are doing the delivering there is no way any other company can compete on price other than by using better or bigger sorting equipment and that advantage will only be short term. Long term we should always have the biggest and best because we are so much bigger than the others so without govt guarantees our competitors would be doomed.
Anyone else think the same?
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There is a world of difference in being committed to Royal Mail and ensuring it remains wholly in government hands.
There has been a long delay in the Hooper report and I can't believe that there hasn't been any inclination to ministers what the interim outcome will be. Mandelson has I am sure spoken about the existing conclusions in order to extend the parameters of the original scope of the inquiry.
There has been a long delay in the Hooper report and I can't believe that there hasn't been any inclination to ministers what the interim outcome will be. Mandelson has I am sure spoken about the existing conclusions in order to extend the parameters of the original scope of the inquiry.