Do Royal mail still class us as a letter delivery company?

[wallan]

It might have been said, but it was nonsense. RM made big profits for many years after BT was split and sold off in the early 1980s.
BT needed a massive and expensive modernisation programme which privatisation (for better or worse) financed.
If anything, prior to the split, the archaic phone side was subsidised by the letter and parcel side.

They both needed a massive Modernisation program , & any profits made went into The Goverments " Coffers " instead of being spent on modernisation
Thats why there now trying to play catch up with the competition

[Tman]

They both needed a massive Modernisation program , & any profits made went into The Goverments " Coffers " instead of being spent on modernisation
Thats why there now trying to play catch up with the competition

The govts of the day certainly took their pound of flesh, but RM still had enough to finance the massive increase in automation mid 1980s onwards.
Don't know about "playing catch-up" though. TNT (or whatever incarnation they were at that time) had a few crappy IMPs but nothing to even come close to RM's machine holdings.

[Seymour Buts]

11bn+ letters delivered vs 1.8bn parcels. I say we’re still a letter compnay

There was a time when we were delivering 80 million letters per day and now it’s less than half that and dropping.
It was always the case that delivering packets withe letters cross subsidised itself but now letters are dropping to a level that it now doesn’t work. Packets are more labour intensive and don’t seem to be generating the income that was hoped for, besides the competition can do it far cheaper.
So where do we go from here? Do far more work in a given time or work far more cheaply, or both.

Any suggestions ?
I would start with ONE Class of Letter , Next Day Delivery in the Mail Center Collection / Delivery Post Code Area,s , Day After The Rest
It was said many years ago That" Post Office Telephones" now BT / Openreach Subsidised the Letter Side

One class of letter is a definate, in my opinion. 1 - 3 days to deliver to give them some flexibility would be my guess.