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What is being proposed under the Royal Mail delivery shake-up and why?

Source: PA Wire

Royal Mail has put forward proposals that would see first-class mail kept as a six-days-a-week service, but second-class letter deliveries cut dramatically.

It comes as part of the group’s submission to regulator Ofcom, which is consulting on reforms of the universal postal service.

Here the PA news agency looks at what is being put on the table and why:

– What is Royal Mail proposing?

The company is proposing that all non first-class letter deliveries – including second class and bulk business mail,

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