Postcomm licences Hays to compete with Royal Mail
17 September 2001
Postcomm on 17 September issued a licence to Hays Commercial Services Ltd to provide a number of niche postal services in competition with Royal Mail. It is the first licence issued to a private company to pilot new services in the former monopoly area reserved for Royal Mail. The licence covers three areas of work:
- collecting and sorting mail sent by customers of Hays’ existing document exchange (DX) service, and transmitting non-DX mail in bulk for delivery by Royal Mail, to take advantage of Royal Mail’s ‘workshare’ discount
- a pre - 8am delivery service of letters sent by customers of Hays’ existing document exchange (DX) service to other business premises in the London EC and WC, Edinburgh EH1 and EH2 and Manchester M1- M5 and M60 postal districts, and
- the delivery of items weighing less than 350 grams and costing less than £1 to named customers of Hays’ Mailine service in the insurance, travel, opticians’, licensed betting and retail financial services industries.
