Royal Mail asks to stop Saturday letter deliveries

Royal Mail has asked the authorities if it tin halt its missive deliveries connected Saturdays, arsenic it seeks to crook its fortunes astir aft slumping to a nonaccomplishment successful the archetypal fractional of the year.

The concern said it wanted to determination from a six-days-a-week missive transportation to five, from Monday to Friday only.

However, parcel services would proceed to tally each days of the week.

It came arsenic Royal Mail reported a £219m underlying operating nonaccomplishment for the six months to 25 September.

Keith Williams, non-executive seat of Royal Mail's proprietor International Distributions Services, said "urgent reform" was needed, to guarantee a sustainable future.

"[The] authorities has present been approached to question an aboriginal determination to 5 time missive delivery, whilst we proceed to amended parcel services," helium said.