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Integrated mail processing (IMP) is the method that Royal Mail uses to sort the mail (in bulk) before delivery and has been implementing the technology since 1999. [144] The system works by automated optical character recognition of postcodes.
An Act to make provision for the restructuring of the Royal Mail group and about the Royal Mail Pension Plan; to make new provision about the regulation of postal services, including provision for a special administration regime; and for connected purposes. Citation: 2011 c. 5: Introduced by: Vince Cable: Territorial extent United Kingdom ...
Royal Mail was split into three divisions in 1986 [6] and in August 1990, Royal Mail Parcels was rebranded as Parcelforce. In July 1992, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , Michael Heseltine , proposed a privatisation of the Parcelforce business.
Royal Mail, one of the U.K.'s oldest institutions, began in the 1500s as a service exclusively for the monarch and the royal court. It became a public postal service in the 1600s.
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(Reuters) -Royal Mail said customers splurging online during lockdowns helped profits more than double last year as revenue from parcel deliveries outpaced letters for the first time, but it ...
Royal Mail; Following the Postal Services Act 2011, shares in Royal Mail were floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2013. The UK government sold its remaining shares in 2015, ending 499 years of state ownership.
Mr. Tony Benn (Chesterfield): Is the Minister aware that, for 334 years since 1660, the Royal Mail has been a public service, not only through the counters until quite recently, but through the people who called at everybody's house every day, and were a form of contact; that there is no justification for privatisation for commercial freedom ...