Archive for the ‘Royal Mail’ Category
Royal Mail Moves Toward Privatization
Britain’s Royal Mail has taken a couple more steps on the road to privatization. First, it’s signed a 10-year contract to continue to use the Post Office to sell stamps and handle packages after Royal Mail is privatized and the companies are broken apart. The move averts mass closures since the Royal Mail provides a [...]
Royal Mail Offers Direct Mailers ‘Eye-Catching’ Service
The Royal Mail is offering direct mailers a service to find out if their promotions are eye-catching. Since the average consumer takes in 34GB of visual information every day understanding how to make a mailer stand out from the crowd is vital. One way of discovering what catches the consumer’s eye and what doesn’t – [...]
Royal Mail Deploys Digital Watermark
The Royal Mail, it seems, has become the first postal company in the world to deploy digital watermarking technology and make direct mail interactive. The feat was accomplished by Royal Mail’s Door to Door unit and the developer Digital Space. It means that people will be able to link from their paper mail to a [...]
Royal Mail Focuses Widgetry on SMBs
The Royal Mail has extended the E-Commerce Engine it launched earlier this year to small retailers. The widgetry was original targeted at merchants doing more than £500,000 ($800,000) a year. The Royal Mail says the experiment was successful so it’s come up with an out-of-the-box e-commerce fulfillment tool specifically designed to help small to medium-sized [...]
Royal Mail Slammed by eBay Sellers
Royal Mail deliveries have been dissed by more than 80% of the 600 small businesses that eBay surveyed recently. Most of them accused the state-owned institution of stifling them. They want the Royal Mail to notify customers when to expect delivery and improve weekend and evening deliveries as well as institute longer branch hours. The [...]
Royal Mail Starts Down Privatization Path
The British government’s Business Secretary Vince Cable confirmed last week that the new administration means to sell off 90% of the Royal Mail, reserving the remaining 10% for the ancient institution’s staff and picking up its estimated £8 billion pension deficit ($12.8 billion). The news came wrapped in the Postal Services Bill that the coalition [...]
Royal Mail Tries To Stick its Finger in the E-Bills Dike
Britain’s Royal Mail is trying to hold back the threatening e-bill/e-banking wave from turning into a tsunami and drowning it. Paper statements are as important as UK-based call centers and local bank branches to customers, according to a Royal Mail study that contends that removing key transactional communications can damage relationships and erode customer loyalty. [...]
Royal Mail Ties Online Content to Stamps
Britain’s Royal Mail has started peddling what are called “intelligent stamps” – something it says nobody else has got yet – that it hopes will stimulate stamp sales either to collectors or actual mailers. The gimmick works initially with its new Great British Railway commemorative stamp. Apple iPhone and Google Android smartphone users can scan [...]
Look Like Royal Mail Will Have To IPO
Royal Mail’s privatization may be inevitable at this point. It needs money to survive and even if it gets it its situation will still be dicey. It’s unlikely to get it from an industry investor at this point – TNT, which was once interested but now has its own problems to contend with, said as [...]
Royal Mail Signs Cloud Deal
Britain’s Royal Mail has signed a six-year utility-based cloud outsourcing contract with Capgemini UK. Terms weren’t disclosed. The alliance is supposed to transform the Royal Mail’s business and consumer online services, reduce its annual web site IT costs and support its expansion and diversification into new web-based business opportunities without the delays and expense of [...]