UK market reviews
- October 2008
- Competitive Market Review 2008.
- October 2008
- Business Customer Survey 2008.
- February 2008
- Postcomm factsheets, covering key issues in the UK mail market.
- December 2007
- Second anniversary of the liberalisation of the UK postal market.
- April 2007
- Media briefing: Facts about the competitive mail market.
- October 2006
- Competitive Market Review 2006.
- October 2006
- Business Customer Survey 2006.
- October 2006
- Competitive Market Review and Business Customer Survey summary document (pdf, 143KB).
- July 2006
- Market profile (source: Postcomm annual report 2005-06). Key facts and statistics on the UK Mail Market.
- July 2006
- Chairman's statement (source: Postcomm annual report 2005-06). Reviews changes and developments in the mail market during 2005-06.
- July 2006
- Chief Executive's statement (source: Postcomm annual report 2005-06). Looks at Postcomm's work and achievements during 2005-06.
- June 2006
- Enhancing delivery: the peculiarities of postal regulation (pdf, 99KB). Article by Sarah Chambers, Postcomm's chief executive. Source: Agenda - monthly online publication from economics consultancy Oxera (external website).
- February 2006
- UK postal market fact sheet (pdf, 142 KB).
- November 2005
- Competitive Market Review 2005.
- October 2005
- Business Customer Survey 2005.
- July 2005
- Market profile (source: Postcomm annual report 2004-05). Key facts and statistics on the UK Mail Market.
- July 2005
- Chairman's statement (source: Postcomm annual report 2004-05). Reviews changes and developments in the mail market in 2004-05.
- July 2005
- Chief executive's statement (source: Postcomm annual report 2004-05). Looks at Postcomm's work and achievements during 2004-05.
- August 2004
- The UK postal regulatory regime - success or failure? (pdf, 119KB) Summarises what has happened to Royal Mail's volumes, service quality, prices and profits while it has been under Postcomm's regulatory control.
- May 2004
- The implications and consequences of the introduction of competition into the postal monopoly in the UK. (pdf, 245KB) Dissertation by Nick Steven-Jones of Durham University.
- April 2004
- Roland Berger customer survey. Results of interviews with 549 business mail users. Sets out customer views on the range, price and quality of postal services.
- January 2004
- The UK letters market 2000-2003. Market report. Includes key statistics and information on Royal Mail's performance, the development of competition, legal and economic barriers to further competition, and an update on the access situation.
- October 2003
- History of the early British Post Office 1635-1844 (pdf, 178KB).
- May 2003
- A study into certain aspects of the cost of capital for regulated utilities in the UK (pdf, 715KB). Produced for the Joint Economic Regulators' Group, of which Postcomm is a member, the report discusses a range of issues associated with setting the costs of capital for regulated industries. Its conclusions do not necessarily reflect Postcomm's views.
- July 2002
- Postcomm's response to "Opening the Post" (pdf, 312KB). Postcomm's comments on the National Audit Office's January 2002 report.
- January 2002
- "Opening the Post: Postcomm and postal services - the risks and opportunities". Report from the National Audit Office. Looks at the risks and opportunities Postcomm faces as it considers how and when to open the UK postal market to competition. (Postcomm statement (pdf, 7KB).
- January 2002
- "The impact of liberalisation on efficiency: a survey" (pdf, 193KB), report produced for Postcomm by Frontier Economics.
- June 2001
- "The impact of competition in the postal sector", (pdf, 123KB) report produced by the Association of International Courier and Express Services.
