Ofcom could allow Royal Mail to end Saturday post

Royal Mail could be allowed to scrap Saturday post deliveries, as part of an Ofcom review into how the postal service may need updating. The regulator is set to publish a document next week outlining options on how Royal Mail can "Evolve to more closely meet consumer needs". A spokesperson for Ofcom confirmed that it will publish evidence on "How the universal postal service might need to evolve to more closely meet consumer needs". Ofcom announced in September that it would look at evidence on how the universal service, which states letters must be delivered Monday to Saturday, may need to change to reflect how people now use the service. On Thursday, Martin Seidenberg, chief executive of Royal Mail's owners, International Distribution Services plc, said in its trading statement that while it was doing all it could to transform, "It is simply not sustainable to maintain a delivery network built for 20 billion letters when we are now only delivering seven billion."

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