Royal Mail set to scrap Saturday deliveries amid claims firm is losing £1m a day

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He said the company is losing “£1million per day'

UK sales fell 11.5 per cent in the three months to the end of June for an operating loss of £92 million.

Asked if Saturdays were to be axed, Chairman Keith Williams told The Today programme: “Yes, Our consumers are not looking for that.” Mr Williams added that Covid had given it extra business from posting testing kits and a jump in online deliveries that made a profit of £758 million - but this was a one-off.

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