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First class Olympics stamps to go on sale

Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Sets of “everyday” first class stamps displaying the Olympic and Paralympic logos will go on sale next week in shops around the UK. They will be available from thousands of retailers and all post offices in books of six from 5 January. This type of stamp – known as the “definitive” version – usually only features an image of the Queen. This is the first time a commercial logo has Read More
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OFCOM, the new postal services regulator recently issued a consultation about how postal services should be regulated over the next seven years. Concerns about the potential impacts of these proposals prompted the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) along with POSTAF (Postal Trade Association) to host a meeting of all key stakeholders in the postal market – including ONEPOST – to explore how best to resp Read More
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Towards the end of July the European Commission opened an investigation to determine whether the UK government’s planned financial restructuring of Royal Mail breaches EU state aid rules. The probe will examine whether the Government’s proposals to write off Royal Mail’s debts and take responsibility for its multi-billion pound pension deficit meet EU guidelines for state aid. According to the Eur Read More
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Royal Mail saw the number of complaints received for loss of post jump by a huge 37% during the first three months of 2011. The national postal operator received 120,884 complaints from angry customers in their first three months of the year …. a rise of 37% on the same period in 2010 In total last year Royal Mail received 332,000 complaints for losing letters and parcels – more than 1,000 every workin Read More
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