Redirections
At present Royal Mail is the only operator offering a redirection service. All mail handled by Royal Mail is subject to redirection regardless of whether or not that mail is within the licensed area. As competitors offering a delivery service gain an increased share of a liberalised postal market, there is a risk that the redirections service will suffer unless other licensed operators, who wish to provide a redirections service, have access to the redirections data.
Postcomm is proposing that Royal Mail share redirection data with other licensed operators, and in a manner that is consistent with the Data Protection Act 1998, to enable other licensed delivery operators to redirect mail.
Postcomm's consultation on its revised proposals for sharing redirections data closed on 23 January 2008. Postcomm is currently assessing the responses to consultation and will meet with interested parties as required.
More background on redirections.
Related documents:
- 4 March 2008 - consultation responses
- Responses to October's revised redirections proposals.
RM Redirections Response Final excised (pdf, 765KB)
DX Group Redirections Response (pdf, 30KB)
Other Redirection Responses (pdf, 97KB) - 23 October 2007 - proposals document
- Postcomm's revised redirections proposals (pdf, 912KB)
- 23 October 2007 - statement
- Postcomm publishes revised proposals on Royal Mail's redirections service.
- 20 November 2006 - consultation responses
- Responses to the August consultation document 'Sharing redirection data, Postcomm's proposals to facilitate a multi operator redirection service'.
Royal Mail (pdf, 92KB),
other licensed operators (pdf, 94KB),
consumer bodies and trade associations (pdf, 84KB),
other non-confidential responses (pdf, 136KB). - 14 August 2006 - consultation document
- Sharing redirection data, Postcomm’s proposals to facilitate a multi-operator redirection service (pdf, 1.6MB).
- 14 August 2006 - news release
- Postcomm consults on a redirection service for the competitive mail market.
