Postcomm factsheets
Postcomm has produced a series of factsheets on key issues affecting postal services. These are updated regularly and are available here as pdf files. If you would like hard copies of any factsheet/s, please contact us (external email).
- About Postcomm (pdf, 53KB). (See also our About Postcomm web pages.)
- About the mail market and competition (pdf, 52KB). (See also our "About the mail market" web pages and our Media briefing: Facts about the competitive mail market.)
- Access (pdf, 56KB). (See also our web page on access.)
- Anti-competitive behaviour in the mail market (pdf, 53KB). (See also our web page on anti-competitive behaviour.)
- Applying for a licence (pdf, 55KB). (See also our web page on applying for a licence.)
- Case study: Department for Work and Pensions (pdf, 58KB).
- Case study: Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Hospitals Trust (pdf, 45KB).
- Case study: Powergen (pdf, 45KB).
- Case study: RBS (pdf, 58KB).
- European postal debate (pdf, 56KB).
- How to complain about your postal service provider (pdf, 68KB). (See also our web page on making a complaint.)
- Mail security (pdf, 55KB). (See also our web page on Postcomm prosecutions.)
- Market opening timetable (pdf, 56KB). (See also our web pages on competition in the mail market.)
- Postcomm Strategy Review (pdf, 57KB). (See also our web pages on the Strategy Review.)
- Post Office network (pdf, 61KB). (See also our web pages on Post Offices.)
- Pricing in Proportion (pdf, 58KB). (See also our Pricing In Proportion web page.)
- Redirections (pdf, 53KB). (See also our web page on redirections.)
- Regulation of Royal Mail (pdf, 60KB). (See also our web pages on the regulation of Royal Mail.)
- Reviewing your mail services provider (pdf, 58KB).
- Royal Mail's collection and delivery times (pdf, 57KB).
- Royal Mail Postcode Address File (pdf, 57KB). (See also our web page on the Postcode Address File.)
- Royal Mail's quality of service (pdf, 58KB). (See also our web page on Royal Mail's quality of service.)
- Universal postal service (pdf, 57KB). (See also our web pages on the universal service.)
- VAT in the postal services market (pdf, 56KB).
- Zonal pricing by Royal Mail (pdf, 59KB). (See also our web page on zonal pricing.)