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Royal Mail is launching same day deliveries for some Pharmacy2U medication and healthcare products, initially via the Chemist Direct brand. The service, which Royal Mail says has been introduced following a ‘surge in demand during the pandemic’, will initially focus on some postcode areas in […]
Shake-up: Royal Mail is poised to give customers a range of delivery options
Royal Mail is planning to offer timed delivery slots for the first time next year as it attempts to win customers from rivals such as Amazon, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The 500-year-old postal firm is planning a three-tier system allowing customers to pay more to send and receive letters and parcels on specific days and times.
In a video message to its 140,000 staff, seen by The Mail on Sunday, chief commercial officer Nick Landon said the company is stripping back its current range of services and is in the early stages of developing new options for customers.
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Royal Mail’s new nationwide doorstep collection service, delivered by its postmen and postwomen, will benefit retailers and consumers alike.
Britain’s postmen and postwomen were among the keyworkers who became everyday heroes during the coronavirus lockdowns, continuing their deliveries through the darkest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. But consumers were not the only ones relying on Royal Mail throughout the upheaval of the past year. Retailers, too – particularly fashion businesses – leant heavily on the courier as a key strategic partner as online orders rocketed.
“For the last 20 years, we’ve experienced a fairly steady increase in the number of parcels being delivered and a steady decrease in the number of letters being delivered,” Nick Landon, chief commercial officer of Royal Mail, tells Drapers. “During the pandemic, there was a huge shift as shopping habits accelerated five or six ye
This week, Royal Mail announces a trial of the first out-of-sight, autonomous scheduled drone flights between the UK mainland and an island. The trial will see the Company use Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flights to deliver Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), COVID testing kits and other mail to the Isles of Scilly.
Royal Mail has also become the first to execute inter-island parcel deliveries across the Scillies, as part of the trial.
The Government-funded project, which has been developed in partnership with DronePrep, Skyports, Consortiq Limited, University of Southampton, Excalibur Healthcare Services and Windracers Limited, will initially have a particular focus on helping to fight the pandemic by delivering crucial PPE and testing kits to the islands’ most vulnerable and remote communities.