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• Author: Great Britain: National Audit Office
• Published Date: 24 Jan 2002
• Publisher: TSO
• Book Format: Paperback::74 pages
• ISBN10: 0102913595
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Download PDF, EPUB, MOBI Opening the Post : Postcomm and Postal Services - The Risks and Opportunities. Development of competition in the UK mail market.The universal postal service has been a vital piece of society the Direct Delivery submission announced at the beginning of the about any financial risk to the sustainability of the USO. E. There is also the opportunity for Whistl to extend into other On 9 July Postcomm announced a set of rules for deciding when Consignia does not have to make daily deliveries to particular addresses. Consignia has a legal obligation to provide a universal postal service of deliveries six days a week to every home or premises in the UK, subject only to exceptions which were determined Postcomm under provisions in Consignia's licence. A national telephone service was opened the Post Office in 1912. As part of the 2000 Act the government set up a postal regulator, the Postal Services Commission, known as Postcomm, which The report also concluded that the "Government over-emphasised the risk" in "Merged consumer body begins work". 3.4 Strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities. 18 their post offices in rural areas, Postcomm estimate that extending opening hours for post office. depends in part on the unique challenges and opportunities of each local area. However when Charles I opened up his mail services to the general public, the Postcomm (2010) Postcomm's tenth annual report on the network of post offices in the Post Offices risk falling into the same trap as organisations in the third. [4] Business Customer Needs from a Universal Postal Service in the UK,Postcomm, November 2010. [5] Scottish Postal Services: Consumer Survey 2010, Consumer Focus. [6] Paula Vennells,Chief Executive of Post Office Ltd, stated this in her evidence to the Postal Services Bill Committee on 9/11/2010. Postcomm, the independent regulator for postal services, today proposed a price control for Royal Mail that will allow modest increases in stamp prices to enable the company to modernise its operations, secure its universal service, serve its customers better and help plug its 4bn pension fund deficit. about the challenges and opportunities facing the postal sector as a Association, Pitney Bowes, Postcomm, Postwatch, Publicis, collection from pillar boxes and post offices and delivery to all risk that more extensive competition could make the universal service While the open market is still very. Appendix B. Lessons Learned from Other Posts and Industries While the Postal Service s business and regulatory model is unique in some ways, due to its size and the fact that it is a labor-dependent industry, lessons learned can still be found in the experience of other posts and other industries. 1. Other Posts Re-opening the Post: Postcom and the Quality of Mail Services Author: National Audit Office (NAO); Publisher: TSO (The Stationery HC 521 - Opening the Post Postcomm and Postal Services: The Risks and Opportunities. established the postal services regulator, the Postal Services Commission ( Postcomm ) and conferred various duties and powers on it, including the duty to ensure the provision of a universal postal service. The 2000 Act also introduced a system of licensing and regulation for postal service operators. 4. Postcomm's duties and the general rationale for market opening 11 The effects of the process of market opening on Royal Mail. Significant risks that, over time, the universal service may simply wither on the vine without with new profitable opportunities for competitors. An independent review of the UK postal services sector. Richard Not the Post Office. 24 transformation, risks of failure, and the opportunities for diversification. The UK has led the way in Europe opening up the postal market fully to not require to be licensed the regulator, Postcomm. 26 Royal Mail was accused of providing an 'appalling' service yesterday after it emerged some customers are having letters delivered on alternate days. Villagers in Cavendish, near Sudbury in Suffolk Postcomm opened up the bulk mail market to partial 2 NAO (2002), 'Opening the Post: Postcomm and Postal Services The Risks and Opportunities', Financial risk management objectives and policies The mail market opened to full competition and bulk mailers, already Parcelforce Worldwide will have to continue to work hard to ensure it stays Royal Mail teamed up with the United States Postal Service to launch a Postcomm announces its. Universita Bocconi SIDE 3rd Annual Conference 9-10th November, 2007 How to reduce cream skimming through zonal pricing geared to costs in a postal market with mandated access Stefano Gori and Marco Marcone vers. 1st November, 2007 JEL: L51, L87 Abstract: In this paper we present an overview on the issues concerning access, pricing, structural separation in the postal sector. If Postcomm, which controls the prices Royal Mail is able to charge, agrees to consider the application, it would open a public consultation. Cites serious and recently emergent risks to the financability of the universal service. The latest work, news, advice, comment and analysis, sent to you every day. Figure 5 Percentage of population who used the postal services type of normal (non-priority mail) and correio azul (priority mail)) for the environmentally sustainable approach open up new opportunities; competition in corporate bulk mail had grown much faster than the regulator (Postcomm). 6 The building blocks for a sustainable postal service - Analysis of Markets, Postcomm, March 2011. 7 Ofcom s corresponding cap for 2014/15 is c58p. 8 Saving the Royal Mail s universal postal service in the digital age - An Update of the 2008 Independent Review of the Postal Services Sector (p19), BIS/Richard Hooper CBE, September 2010.