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Licensed UK postal operators reaches 60

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
In recent months there has been a noticeable increase in both applications and issuing of postal operator licenses in the UK. Since the full market opening on 1 January 2006, Postcomm issued 59 licenses to postal operators, in addition to Royal Mail. You must apply for a postal licence if you plan to carry mail weighing less than 350g and costing less than £1 to post, which is otherwise excepted from the need to h Read More
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Today, 1st October 2011, the responsibility for regulating postal services moves from Postcomm to Ofcom. Early in August Ofcom published a consultation document on the transition to the new regulatory framework. The document focused on a number of key areas which Ofcom either must do, or has the discretionary power to do: • Ofcom may provisionally designate a universal service provider (Royal Mail) • Approve a Read More
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Following the Royal Assent of the Postal Services Bill, the way is now clear for the merger of the current regulator (Postcomm) within Ofcom. This transfer is expected to be completed in October. Ed Richards, Ofcom’s Chief Executive said: “Ofcom looks forward to taking on responsibility for regulation of postal services. We are working closely with Postcomm to secure a smooth transition of regulatory responsibi Read More
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Postcomm consults ….

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Postcomm has certainly been busy with the issue of five key consultation documents under the umbrella title of  The building blocks for a sustainable postal service. With four of the consultations closing on 31st May / 1st June, we shared the industry view concerning the weighty (yet important) reading material to digest in order to submit responses both directly to Postcomm and as a contributor to responses from Read More
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