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![The first release of the Response Rate Tracker is billed as a pilot study](/media/3qgkd3td/jicmail-tracker.png?rxy=0.5,0.0&width=525&height=525&bgcolor=White&v=1d9e723204f9ba0)
JICMail launches new Response Rate Tracker
JICMail, the joint industry currency for ad mail, has released results from its inaugural Response Rate Tracker research.
![Royal Mail: "These are complex and at times difficult talks"](/media/cxnlkvet/royal-mail-bags.jpg?rxy=0.5,0.0&width=525&height=525&bgcolor=White&v=1d9e72321674d30)
Crunch week to resolve Royal Mail dispute
The CWU has described the week ahead as “critical to the outcome” of its long-running dispute with Royal Mail, with a series of pay for change proposals aimed at stabilising the business now on the...
![Committee believes that Royal Mail has deprioritised delivery of letters as a matter of company policy](/media/0zhbkjnv/royal-mail-letters.jpg?rxy=0.5,0.0&width=525&height=525&bgcolor=White&v=1d9e72324d5c000)
Royal Mail referred to Ofcom
Under-fire bosses at Royal Mail now have another problem on their plates, after MPs referred the business to Ofcom over its "systematic failure" to meet parts of the Universal Service Obligation...
![The X-Jet inkjet system has been fitted to an existing Sitma wrapping line](/media/r5ihkkvj/x-jet.jpg?rxy=0.5,0.0&width=525&height=525&bgcolor=White&v=1d9e7231ffb3a10)
Cavalier Mailing Services invests and celebrates record year
Mailing house Cavalier Mailing Services has taken on a raft of additional kit to boost its capacity and quality as it marks a record year of trading.
![77% of mail items were read, looked at or glanced at in Q4](/media/lcbcxm10/jicmail-q4-2022.png?rxy=0.5,0.0&width=525&height=525&bgcolor=White&v=1d9e72318388850)
Mail open, read, and retention rates improve in Q4
JICMail, the joint industry currency for ad mail, has released its data for Q4 2022, which revealed that more mail was opened, read, and retained over the Christmas trading season than at any other...
![Royal Mail and CWU agree that workplace tensions need to be reduced](/media/yphkdknx/royal-mail-van-and-man.jpg?rxy=0.5,0.0&width=525&height=525&bgcolor=White&v=1d9e7231fbb23d0)
Royal Mail and CWU talks extended
Crunch talks between Royal Mail and the CWU have been extended, with “progress made in some areas”.
![Royal Mail: 25% decline in letters compared to pre-pandemic](/media/m5cprcte/royal-mail-king-charles-iii-new-1st-class-stamp.jpg?rxy=0.5,0.0&width=525&height=525&bgcolor=White&v=1d9e7231d07eab0)
Royal Mail hikes stamp prices, agrees new talks with CWU
Royal Mail has announced an inflation-busting near-16% increase in the price of First Class stamps, which will breach the £1 mark for the first time.
![(L-R) Antony Moore, operations director, and Kevin Dunn, business development director at PHD](/media/cbfhffmi/phd.jpg?rxy=0.5,0.0&width=525&height=525&bgcolor=White&v=1d9e72319ec52d0)
PHD invests £2m in mailing growth
Burton-on-Trent secure document mailing company PHD Mail has invested £2m in an array of brand-new machinery, capitalising on growth it has seen in the transactional mail market.
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Tense session for Royal Mail bosses
Royal Mail bosses faced further scrutiny over their approach to the USO, among other matters, in the latest appearance before MPs with committee chair Darren Jones saying that answers had “completely...
![Thompson: recalled after questions raised over previous evidence](/media/lt5e0g3z/simon-thompson-royal-mail.jpg?rxy=0.5,0.0&width=525&height=525&bgcolor=White&v=1d9e72317dc5e90)
MPs set to grill Royal Mail CEO again
Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson will appear before the Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Committee again later today.