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The special postboxes respond to post with festive tunes such as Jingle Bells, We Wish You A Merry Christmas and Deck The Halls

Royal Mail, the UK’s oldest postal service, has received plenty of bad news in recent weeks. It has been fined for failing to achieve its delivery targets, lost an exclusive deal with the Post Office and recorded operating losses of £319 million – £100 million higher than for the same…

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A charity has revealed a league table of the worst-ranking parcel delivery firms with "miserable" service.

Postal service renews call to change universal service obligation as its revenues fall

Evri and Yodel ranked at the bottom of the charity’s league table

None of the major parcel firms – Royal Mail, DPD, Yodel, Amazon Logistics or Evri – managed to secure even a three star rating out of five.

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Regulator’s paltry £5.6m fine suggests it is waiting for the company’s universal service obligation to be reformed

Ofcom says performance missed targets by ‘significant and unexplained margin’ causing customers ‘considerable harm’