Royal Mail
Postal service company in the United Kingdom
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| April 2025 | Royal Mail announced a trial of a new solar-powered 'postbox of the future' with a built-in barcode reader and a hatch for larger parcels. |
| January 20 2025 | Royal Mail announced potential plans to discontinue Saturday deliveries for second-class letters, with proposed changes including reduced postal delivery targets and alternate weekday deliveries for second-class letters while maintaining first-class letter deliveries six days a week. |
| 2024 | Entire Postmark development project is scheduled for completion. |
| December 28 2024 | Robert Hudson, the UK's longest serving postman, retired at age 76 after 60 years of service. |
| May 2024 | Emma Gilthorpe set to take over as Chief Executive of Royal Mail. |
| July 2023 | Strikes ended after workers agreed to a three-year pay deal, with 76% of union members voting in favour of an agreement including a 10% salary increase and a £500 lump sum. |
| March 2023 | Pay negotiations between Royal Mail and CWU (Communication Workers Union) reportedly reached a point of collapse. |
| 2022 | Several strikes occurred throughout the year. |
| October 3 2022 | The name change to International Distributions Services plc was officially registered. |
| September 28 2022 | The name change to International Distributions Services plc was filed with Companies House. |
| July 20 2022 | During the annual general meeting, the company announced a name change to International Distributions Services plc and potential separation of GLS from Royal Mail. |
| 2021 | Royal Mail announces plans to trial a drone service between the UK mainland and St Mary's airport in the Isles of Scilly, using a twin-engine vehicle capable of carrying 100 kg of mail. |
| 2021 | First phase of the Postmark development, located alongside Phoenix Place, was completed. |
| January 2021 | Simon Thompson becomes Chief Executive of Royal Mail. |
| December 2020 | Royal Mail delivers its first parcel using a drone, sending a package to a remote lighthouse on Scotland's Isle of Mull. |
| 2018 | Ofcom fined Royal Mail £50 million for breaching European Union competition law. |
| 2018 | Development of the 'Postmark' site began, with plans to include approximately 680 homes after a protracted dispute over affordable housing. |
| January 2018 | Keith Williams appointed as chairman of Royal Mail. |
| 2014 | Royal Mail was found to have abused its dominant position in letter delivery, violating European Union competition law. |
| November 2013 | Titan Airways withdraws the British Aerospace 146-200QC aircraft, replacing it with a standard Boeing 737 fleet. |
| October 15 2013 | Royal Mail was listed on the London Stock Exchange as Royal Mail plc, marking its privatisation and transition to a public company. |
| September 27 2013 | Public applications for Royal Mail shares opened ahead of its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange. |
| June 2013 | Royal Mail confirms an extension of Titan Airways' contract to operate night flights from Stansted Airport, to run from January 2014 to January 2017, introducing new routes to Edinburgh and Belfast using three Boeing 737s. |
| 2012 | Royal Mail proposed selling the northern half of the Mount Pleasant Mail Centre site, including land west of Phoenix Place, for residential and commercial redevelopment. |
| October 2012 | Ofcom suggested potentially replacing first and second class post systems with a single, higher-priced class with shorter delivery time. |
| September 27 2012 | Ofcom announced approval of the 'delivery to neighbour' scheme after noting increased online shopping and practices of Royal Mail's competitors. |
| July 2012 | Ofcom consulted on a Royal Mail scheme to allow larger postal items to be left with neighbours instead of being returned to a Royal Mail office. |
| 2011 | Postcomm was abolished, with Ofcom becoming the new regulator for Royal Mail. |
| 2011 | The Postal Services Act 2011 guaranteed that Royal Mail would continue to provide the universal service until at least 2021. |
| March 2011 | In the first three months of 2011, approximately 120,000 letters were reported lost. |
| December 6 2010 | Royal Mail removed several paid-for and free services from the Inland Letter Post Scheme (ILPS), including Admail, post office boxes, private post boxes, petitions to parliament and the sovereign, and poste restante. |
| May 27 2010 | Adam Crozier departed from Royal Mail to join ITV plc. |
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