Royal Mail will start to deliver second-class letters on every other weekday and not on Saturdays to help cut costs, the industry regulator has said. Ofcom said a reform to postal service was needed ...

Improving productivity will be key, and that is very likely to mean redundancies and changes to work practices. Royal Mail’s ...

Second-class post is to be scrapped on Saturdays under proposals for Royal Mail put forward by Ofcom. The UK regulator said Saturday deliveries were only needed by people when they were sending ...

Among its other proposals, Ofcom suggested that Royal Mail could save up to £200 million ($255 million) a year by cutting its letter deliveries down to five days a week, or by extending the time ...