New postal licence framework
Postcomm, the regulator for postal services, today announced changes that will simplify procedures for licensing non-universal service operators. (The universal service is the geographically uniform postal service that is provided by Royal Mail.)
The changes described in today's document - Amendment of the 2006 licensing framework - include a reduction in application fees from £1000 to £50, which it is hoped will help encourage small businesses to enter the market, and the removal of the licence requirement on all licensees to have guarantees or contractual arrangements in place to ensure the delivery of mail if an operator fails so that, in future, other operators can respond directly to what the market demands, rather than to regulatory requirements.
The changes described in today's document - Amendment of the 2006 licensing framework - include a reduction in application fees from £1000 to £50, which it is hoped will help encourage small businesses to enter the market, and the removal of the licence requirement on all licensees to have guarantees or contractual arrangements in place to ensure the delivery of mail if an operator fails so that, in future, other operators can respond directly to what the market demands, rather than to regulatory requirements.
Labels: competition, Postcomm
posted by Postwatch at 5:34 pm
3 Comments:
What a disaster!!! I don't know what to say to this. Oh well theft in the postal industry is about escalate. Foolish, foolish capitalists.
And to add, what have the benefits been to residential and small business customers???? Since 2003 we have seen the postal service get worse, later deliveries, later collections if at all, a complete shambles on what use to be to the finest postal service in the world.
Who cares now? Postcomm? Postwatch? Government?
Postcom, wow set up a club of people that have hate for Royal Mail, that is why the postman is now late, also why are the other "mail" companys let off fines and harder working rules????
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