Advertising: Universal Service Obligation

(asked on 6th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of a reduction in the Universal Service Obligation to five days on UK advertising mail and print magazine advertising.


Answered by
Kevin Hollinrake Portrait
Kevin Hollinrake
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 14th February 2023

The Government has no current plans to change the statutory minimum requirements of the universal postal service, set out in the Postal Services Act 2011, which requires Royal Mail to deliver letters to every UK address, six days a week at standard price.

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