Updated: Thursday the 09^th of September, 2010 Royal Mail

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Royal Mail 100 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0HQ Tel: 08457 950950
http://www.royalmail.com

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No of Employees: Annual Turnover: Importers: Yes Exporters: Yes Company Type: Distributor Service Providers	Parent Company: Royal Mail Group Ltd ISO Compliance: BS7857, BSI (British Standards Institution) standard level.

Company Description

Warehousing and Distribution

Royal Mail's Warehouse and Distribution solution provides integrated eCommerce, stock management and order fulfilment service that drives growth and great customer service with complete control.

From providing a multi-channel eCommerce sales platform through to storage, pick, pack, despatch and delivery to dealing with returns and excess stock; Royal Mail can do it all.

The service is entirely integrated so the sales platform allows you to manage your online presence and ensures that you exploit all sales channels available to you, and manage your sales orders, whilst our Warehousing and Distribution service allows you complete access to stock and deliver information, at all times to allow you to manage both your customers and your business.

Special Delivery™ Next Day

Take advantage of Special Delivery™ Next Day for guaranteed delivery of your urgent or valuable item before 1.00pm the next working day to 99%* of the UK.

Guaranteed delivery before 1.00pm
Guaranteed Saturday Delivery for a small surcharge
99%* UK coverage
Online tracking
Electronic Proof of Delivery
Up to £2,500 compensation

With prices starting from just £5.05 we're confident you won't find any other next day courier service that will beat us on price.

Royal Mail Sameday

Need that important package delivered today? Our Royal Mail Sameday courier service guarantees delivery of urgent items on the same day, to almost anywhere in the UK. Get a competitive price and book your delivery within seconds.

Same day collection and delivery to most of the UK
98% of collections within an hour
Online real-time satellite tracking
Email delivery confirmation
Compensation of up to £20,000 available

Delivery Services

Learn more about options available for sending and receiving letters and packets quickly and easily.

Delivery options

Sending mail in the UK
Sending mail overseas
Sending mail to UK Forces (BFPO)
Sending urgent mail
Get discounts sending mail in bulk

Collection services

Have your mail collected from your business
Pick up your mail before 8:30am with Early Collect
Collect your mail at a time that suits you with Mail Collect
Allow your customers to pick up their item from a local Post Office with Local Collect

Returning mail and goods

Get responses from customers and learn about returning unwanted goods.

Earn a discount

Save money on sending your mail by doing some advance preparation

Receiving Mail services

Arrange to have your item redelivered with Redelivery
Redirect your mail
Set up a PO Box
Have your mail delivered when you want with Timed Delivery

Customer Collections

Take the time and hassle out of managing your business mail with our cost-effective Customer Collections service. Open an account with us and we'll visit your office and collect all your mail.

One-off or regular daily collections
Available six days a week
All standard and urgent mail collected
Competitive prices

For this year we have simplified our Collection service offerings starting from just £1.98 per day, with an additional new option of Timed Collections services that allows you to choose an actual collection time that meets your business needs, if you spend more than £15,000 per year, per site on Royal Mail products and services most of our Collection services are completely FREE.

Brand & Trade Names

General Logistics Systems (GLS) - GLS is our European parcels business and Parcelforce Worldwide is its UK partner. Based at GLS head office in the Netherlands, it has14,500 employees. GLS handles over 1 million parcels a day, through its network of 667 depots, 29 central transhipment points, 16,000 delivery vehicles and 1,700 long distance trucks. Its core operation is business-to-business parcels deliveries and it has 220,000 customers in 34 states across Europe.
Parcelforce Worldwide - Parcelforce Worldwide is our express parcels business. We deliver around 150,000 parcels a day to our customers.(Courier) In the last few years Parcelforce Worldwide has successfully turned around its business and is now a key player in the competitive, unregulated, express parcels market. It has dramatically cut its losses from operations and continues to improve the quality of service provided for customers, particularly for its time-critical products.
Post Office® - The Post Office® and its partners offer over 170 products and services, including: Postal services, Financial and banking services, including personal loans, car and home insurance, a "two in one" credit card , savings and investment products and bill payments. Travel services, including foreign currency exchange, travel insurance, passport application check and send service HomePhone (our home telephone service), directory enquiries, phonecards and mobile phone top-ups Postal orders, gift vouchers and cards, lottery products and licence applications.
Royal Mail - Royal Mail is our letters and packages business, covering the whole of the UK for our one-price-goes-anywhere universal service. Each working day we collect items directly from our 113,000 post boxes, 14,300 Post Office® branches and from some 87,000 businesses. These items pass through our network of 70 mail centres, 8 regional distribution centres (for customer sorted mail) and 3,000 delivery offices. Then our fleet of over 30,000 red vehicles and 33,000 bicycles help us to deliver them to their final destination. We use postcodes to identify where an item is going, helping us to sort mail efficiently and deliver it faster. We make deliveries six days a week by around lunchtime, although many customers receive their mail much earlier than this, and we aim to complete rural deliveries by around 3pm.
Royal Mail Relay® - If you have a number of stores, offices, branches or service staff across the country, Royal Mail Relay® can take the hassle out of collection and delivery, with access to any of your network or to up to 1,400 dedicated hand-over points across the country. Save time - We collate your items before delivery, freeing up your staff to concentrate on other core tasks. And because we can deliver out-of-hours, your staff won't waste time waiting for, or dealing with their deliveries. Save money - All your collections and deliveries are handled by one supplier and costs are shared by other users of the network. Reliability - We offer fast delivery for important items such as cheques. Flexibility - Royal Mail Relay® is tailored to your individual needs. We operate on an overnight and/or same day basis, so you can get your items collected after normal office hours and delivered before business begins the next day. Security - Our staff are trustworthy and reliable, and vetted to BS7857, the BSI (British Standards Institution) standard level. Our sites have secure key storage, alarmed strong-rooms, motion detection alarms and 'stop and search' capabilities.
Royal Mail Sameday - Royal Mail Sameday is an easy-to-use and competitively priced courier service that's available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. It delivers the same day to virtually any address in the UK. (Courier)
Special Delivery&Trade; - Our Customer Experience of Home Delivery Research 2007 shows that the vast majority of home shoppers - especially online - are prepared to pay more for the delivery of special-occasion, high-value or urgent items. Express delivery services ensure speedy delivery of your items Royal Mail Sameday. (Courier) Royal Mail Sameday is an easy-to-use and competitively priced courier service that's available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

Primary Market Areas

Aerospace & Defence
Agriculture & Farming
Architecture, Building & Construction
Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
Computing & Communications
Controls & Instrumentation
Design & Development
Electronics & Electrical
Engineering & Automotive
Fire, Safety & Security

Food & Drink Processing
Logistics, Warehousing & Transport
Manufacturing & Stockholding
Marine
Oil & Gas
Packaging, Paper & Print
Plant & Machinery
Rubber & Plastics
Test & Measurement
Water & Waste Management

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Updated: Thursday the 09th of September, 2010 Royal Mail

Updated: Thursday the 09^th of September, 2010 Royal Mail