Rivals should be made to deliver daily, and to any address,

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Rivals should be made to deliver daily, and to any address, Royal Mail tells MPs

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Royal Mail has told MPs that existing and potential rivals must be forced to deliver post six days a week and to every address in the regions they serve in order to protect the universal postal service.

In evidence to the Business Select Committee, Royal Mail has called for a new regulatory framework to be imposed on Whistl, formerly TNT Post. The Dutch-owned company has become a significant competitor this year as it has started to deliver business mail in Manchester, Liverpool and London.

However, Whistl has been accused of cherry-picking, delivering only to easily accessible addresses. Under the universal service obligation, Royal Mail is committed to delivering to all 29 million UK addresses, including remote homes on loss-making routes.

In its evidence, Whistl claims Royal Mail, which was privatised last year, "lags behind its most modernised, EU peers in terms of efficiency, cost reduction, productivity and flexibility".

[bustedflush]

Rivals should be made to deliver daily, and to any address, Royal Mail tells MPs

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 77804.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Royal Mail has told MPs that existing and potential rivals must be forced to deliver post six days a week and to every address in the regions they serve in order to protect the universal postal service.

In evidence to the Business Select Committee, Royal Mail has called for a new regulatory framework to be imposed on Whistl, formerly TNT Post. The Dutch-owned company has become a significant competitor this year as it has started to deliver business mail in Manchester, Liverpool and London.

However, Whistl has been accused of cherry-picking, delivering only to easily accessible addresses. Under the universal service obligation, Royal Mail is committed to delivering to all 29 million UK addresses, including remote homes on loss-making routes.

In its evidence, Whistl claims Royal Mail, which was privatised last year, "lags behind its most modernised, EU peers in terms of efficiency, cost reduction, productivity and flexibility".

Translated:

'Lags behind its European-enforced cherry-picking competitors using modern tracking and PDA's in terms of delivering every other day, on minimum wage with little fuel costs, 3 yards between every delivery point with non-unionised bullied (flexible) staff."

[slinder123]

just thinking about this competition and also newsagents versus supermarkets not many newsagents left

[wabbithunta]

Rivals should be made to deliver daily, and to any address, Royal Mail tells MPs

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 77804.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Royal Mail has told MPs that existing and potential rivals must be forced to deliver post six days a week and to every address in the regions they serve in order to protect the universal postal service.

In evidence to the Business Select Committee, Royal Mail has called for a new regulatory framework to be imposed on Whistl, formerly TNT Post. The Dutch-owned company has become a significant competitor this year as it has started to deliver business mail in Manchester, Liverpool and London.

However, Whistl has been accused of cherry-picking, delivering only to easily accessible addresses. Under the universal service obligation, Royal Mail is committed to delivering to all 29 million UK addresses, including remote homes on loss-making routes.

In its evidence, Whistl claims Royal Mail, which was privatised last year, "lags behind its most modernised, EU peers in terms of efficiency, cost reduction, productivity and flexibility".

Translated:

'Lags behind its European-enforced cherry-picking competitors using modern tracking and PDA's in terms of delivering every other day, on minimum wage with little fuel costs, 3 yards between every delivery point with non-unionised bullied (flexible) staff."

You forgot to add the Zero Hour Contracts that they've got on top of the minimum wage they "earn"

[janitor]

As where RM have a unionised bullied staff.

[raikky]

whistl are a joke. they claim theyre efficient but thats only because they enforce slave labour. how about ofcom letting royalmail compete on letters proce and within a few days whistl will be gone

[wabbithunta]

whistl are a joke. they claim theyre efficient but thats only because they enforce slave labour. how about ofcom letting royalmail compete on letters proce and within a few days whistl will be gone

If only..!

[Surreypostie]

I have no problem with competition, we don't have much, what we do have is competition that couldn't exist without us.