eBay Sellers Boost Royal Mail Profits
Two years ago, the Royal Mail postal service was reported to be losing around £2million each day.
But the last reported figures showed a massive turnaround for the Royal Mail to an enormous £220 million profit.
Whilst this dramatic change has been accredited to cutting costs, partly by shedding some 30,000 staff from the payroll, other sources claim there is a quite different reason – eBay!
The volume of packages mailed by sellers of items on eBay has increased tremendously over the last couple of years. It’s reported that Royal Mail offices in the UK have seen an increase in postal volume of around 66% since 2003.
Apparently, from a total of 100 post offices who were surveyed by the Sunday Telegraph, almost ¾ attributed the increase in mail volume to eBay packages.
If the length of queues at our local post office is any guide, I’d say this assessment about eBay is correct – there has to be an opportunity for some enterprising 3rd party to launch eBayPost as a time-saving service to the eBay community?!
But the last reported figures showed a massive turnaround for the Royal Mail to an enormous £220 million profit.
Whilst this dramatic change has been accredited to cutting costs, partly by shedding some 30,000 staff from the payroll, other sources claim there is a quite different reason – eBay!
The volume of packages mailed by sellers of items on eBay has increased tremendously over the last couple of years. It’s reported that Royal Mail offices in the UK have seen an increase in postal volume of around 66% since 2003.
Apparently, from a total of 100 post offices who were surveyed by the Sunday Telegraph, almost ¾ attributed the increase in mail volume to eBay packages.
If the length of queues at our local post office is any guide, I’d say this assessment about eBay is correct – there has to be an opportunity for some enterprising 3rd party to launch eBayPost as a time-saving service to the eBay community?!
