So for most people royal mail is not particularly competitive for parcels.
They’re great for letters, and if you live somewhere that’s hard to get to they are often the only option for parcels. But for most people, most deliveries from Amazon etc won’t come via them. Instead they’ll come via much cheaper and crappier private companies.
That’s for two reasons. 1. Because royal mail has to deliver everywhere for a similar price, the prices for easy destinations are more expensive and subsidize people living in hard to reach locations. 2. They pay their staff an actual salary rather than per package delivered.
So you have a parcel operation that can’t make money because it is stuck with uniform pricing across the country, and a letter business which used to make money but is slowly dying.
So for most people royal mail is not particularly competitive for parcels.
They’re great for letters, and if you live somewhere that’s hard to get to they are often the only option for parcels. But for most people, most deliveries from Amazon etc won’t come via them. Instead they’ll come via much cheaper and crappier private companies.
That’s for two reasons. 1. Because royal mail has to deliver everywhere for a similar price, the prices for easy destinations are more expensive and subsidize people living in hard to reach locations. 2. They pay their staff an actual salary rather than per package delivered.
So you have a parcel operation that can’t make money because it is stuck with uniform pricing across the country, and a letter business which used to make money but is slowly dying.