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Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Share Flipboard Email. By Emer Scully For Mailonline. Royal Mail could stop delivering letters on Saturdays after revealing it has delivered 1. The UK postal service has faced resistance over plans to deliver fewer letters and refocus its energy on its parcel delivery service - which has boomed during lockdown. There's still a demand for an affordable next-day letters service from businesses Monday to Friday, executives discovered after thousands of customer surveys and staff meetings.

But the Saturday service is not considered a 'core offering' and could be scrapped amid plans to expand on profits made during a boost to parcel delivery amid coronavirus. Royal Mail has faced resistance over plans to deliver fewer letters and refocus its energy on its parcel delivery service - which has boomed during lockdown.

Pictured, a postman in Manchester on April 8. Its delivery vans took m more parcels to front doors as the lockdown sparked a boom in online shopping. Shares soared by 25 per cent, or The postal service has seen a 1. During an annual shareholders meeting yesterday a seven-day parcel delivery service was discussed. And we would like to deliver the items that customers want more often, not less.

As a universal service Royal Mail has to deliver to every address in the UK, six days a week, at a standard price. Ofcom, the service's regulator, is currently conducting a review into what customers need from the Royal Mail.

It plans to get rid of 'old, outdated ways of working' and replace them with automatic clocking in and out for postal workers instead of handwritten sign-in sheets. Warning of a 'material loss' this year, Royal Mail said that the unit 'will not become profitable without substantial business change'.

Royal Mail has struggled to keep up with the shift in demand for more parcel deliveries from online shopping. At present, Royal Mail's universal service obligation means it has to deliver letters for six days per week and parcels for five days.

Any change to Royal Mail's universal service obligation would need to be made by Parliament. Royal Mail has found it difficult to modernise and to keep up with the shift to online shopping, which has been accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic. The sharp drop in profits was due to a number of costs, including increasing the number of staff to sort the higher volume of parcels by hand.

Keith Williams, interim executive chairman of the Royal Mail Group, said the universal service "remains vitally important" even though letter volumes have fallen by around a third in the past six months. This, along with our own comprehensive customer research, demonstrates the need to rebalance the universal service in line with growing consumer demand for parcels, and lower usage of letters.

However, Ofcom also said the cost savings made by cutting Saturday letter deliveries was not enough on its own to make Royal Mail sustainable over the long term. Ofcom also gauged consumer reaction to other features of the universal service, including scrapping the first-class service and creating a single service offering a two-day delivery speed. However, Ofcom said the option would have limited scope for cost savings, and would risk reduced revenues.