Sunday 10 February 2008

business business



more than half of all UK households are now online and broadband take up has doubled in last year. the average household invests an average of £230 getting online.

around 250,000 people nationwide live too far away from a local shop, so there is a considerable potential for more home shopping in future.

brand value counts for alot online.

the web as a medium is more rational and less emotional than real world experience. 30% of online shoppers logging into peer reveiw sites, word of mouth has never been more powerful.

14,ooo post offices and 100,00 post boxes.

trade and industry secetary Patricia Hewitt said the service is in profit and is going in the right direction.

service quality is going up and postmen and postwoman who do an outstanding job are earning up to £300 a week.

a loss of more than 1million a day three years ago has been turned into profit of more than 1million in a day in 2005.

royal mail is one of the country's most prominent enablers of communication.

'royal mail does understand that mail has an environmental impact and we're doing all we can to address that. We're specifically interested in mail media, which we believe can be produced in an environmentally responsible way.'

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