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Notice warning of postal service disruption due to strikes in Oxford in October 2022. On 29 June 2022, Royal Mail managers in Unite voted to approve strike action and industrial action short of a strike over job cuts and a redeployment programme which the union claimed would result in "worsening terms and conditions".
The act allowed for up to 90% of Royal Mail to be privatised, with at least 10% of shares to be held by Royal Mail employees. [ 9 ] As part of the 2011 act, Postcomm was merged into the communications regulator Ofcom on 1 October 2011, with Ofcom introducing a new simplified set of regulations for postal services on 27 March 2012. [ 10 ]
Royal Mail was fined £50 million by Ofcom in 2018 for breach of European Union competition law. Ofcom found that Royal Mail had abused its dominant position in 2014 in the delivery of letters. [129] As of December 2023, Royal Mail has been fined a total of £58,303,936 for regulatory breaches according to the Violation Tracker UK website. [98]
The group reported an 8% rise in underlying operating profits to £758 million for the year to the end of March.
This is a list of British postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail postal service of the United Kingdom, normally referred to in philatelic circles as Great Britain.This list should be consistent with printed publications, [1] [2] and cite sources of any deviation (e.g., magazine issue listing newly found variations).
September 1955. Castles (Not a Commemorative issue, the 2nd set of 'Pictorial' High Value Definitives) Four (10s and £1 first issued 1 September, 2s 6d and 5s first issued 23 September) 1957. 1 August 1957. World Scout Jubilee Jamboree.
Royal Mail is required by law to deliver letters six days a week and parcels five days a week to every address in the UK for a fixed price. ... Its members went on strike in 2022 and 2023.
In 2007, the government gave a £1.7 billion subsidy to Royal Mail Group so that it could turn a profit by 2011. This was to be used to invest across the whole network of Royal Mail, Post Office Limited, and Parcelforce. Eighty-five Crown post offices were closed, 70 of which were sold to WHSmith. This followed a trial of six Post Office ...