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Royal Mail: Delivery
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February 27, 2002 -- The Financial Times (U.K.) has reported that "businesses are to get priority over households for early postal deliveries, Royal Mail said yesterday. It confirmed proposals, first made at the start of the year, to drop the second daily delivery and replace it with a single delivery to business addresses between 7am and 9am. Urban households should receive mail between 9am and 1pm, while rural homes would receive post by late lunchtime. Royal Mail hopes the proposals will ensure more first class mail arrives the next working day."
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Royal Mail had sought to raise the cost of stamps to 39p and 27p respectively. Its aim is to narrow its £4 billion pension deficit and fund a £2 billion investment programme, with the postal delivery incumbent losing its monopoly on British mail from January 1st.
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Royal Mail hopes to cut losses - currently running at £750,000 a day - by ending the second daily delivery shift. It predicts this will allow headcount to fall by a further 17,000.
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Over the last 3 years HSE and LA Inspectors have conducted a rolling inspection project, examining the standards of health and safety management within Royal Mail’s delivery operations. The same period has seen a significant reduction in the total number of RIDDOR reports submitted. Increasingly, project work is being conducted through joint visits to RM premises between HSE and LA Inspectors. This has resulted in a more co-ordinated approach to the inspection of health and safety within the business, and helped to minimise the difficulties presented by the divisions in enforcement allocation.
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