Mailing

Royal Mail puts price tag on strike costs
Royal Mail parent International Distributions Services has put a £200m price tag on the cost of last year’s strike action, and said that asset sales will be required to support cashflow at the postal...

MetroMail and Lbox form strategic partnership
Mailing house MetroMail and Lbox Communications have entered a strategic production partnership that will see MetroMail be the lead partner for a large proportion of Lbox’s outbound marketing...

Senior MP accuses Royal Mail of prioritising parcels over letters
Business committee chair Darren Jones has accused Royal Mail of prioritising parcels over letters, and therefore breaching its legal obligations.

DS Group finishes latest install round with second Kyocera
Employee-owned direct mail and marketing company DS Group took delivery of a second Kyocera TaskAlfa Pro 15000C colour inkjet printer in early November, rounding off a spate of purchases from supplier...

Cyber incident continues to impact Royal Mail
Royal Mail is continuing to experience severe disruption to its international export services, two days after it was first hit by a cyber incident.

Royal Mail hit by cyber incident causing ‘severe disruption’
Royal Mail said it is experiencing “severe disruption” to its international export services this afternoon (11 January), following a cyber incident.

SMP launches RM Wholesale incentive scheme to boost Programmatic Mail
The Strategic Mailing Partnership (SMP) has launched a new Royal Mail Wholesale incentive programme that will help the body to assist businesses in harnessing the power of Programmatic Mail as a new...

Mail mess top and tails an eventful December
While the ongoing impact of the Royal Mail strikes is the bread in the December’s listicle sandwich, the filling in last month’s ranking of our most read stories also featured M&A deals, the decline...

Royal Mail's ex-CEO wades into dispute
Former Royal Mail CEO Rico Back has criticised the current management’s handling of the industrial dispute with CWU workers.

Pre-Christmas postal strikes to go ahead
Strikes involving over 115,000 postal workers across the Royal Mail network will go ahead as planned on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 December, after the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said the postal...