junk mail in St Neots

Ganesh Sittampalam made this Freedom of Information request to Royal Mail Group Limited

The request was refused by Royal Mail Group Limited.

From: Ganesh Sittampalam

12 March 2010

Dear Royal Mail Group,

For either the town of St Neots or the PE19 postal area, whichever
is most convenient, please could you provide a list of all current
agreements you have to deliver unaddressed mail.

For each such agreement, please list the following:

1) Name of company or organisation the mail is from
2) Schedule of delivery (e.g. once per week, once on the 30th
April, etc)
3) Expiry date of agreement
4) Scope of delivery, if not the entire area

Yours faithfully,

Ganesh Sittampalam

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Royal Mail Group Limited

15 March 2010

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Dear Mr. Sittampalam

Thank you for your request for information received on 12/03/2010, which
we are considering under the Freedom of Information Act. Under the Act
you should expect a reply from us to be sent by 13/04/2010, which is
twenty working days from receipt of your request.

If for any reason we are unable to provide you with a full response within
that time, we will contact you explaining the reasons for this and giving
a revised date by which we will reply.

If in the mean time you have any questions or would like to contact us
about your request, please contact us by telephone 01252 806513 or
alternatively email or write to us at the address below. Please be
assured that we are giving this our attention and will get back to you
shortly.

Yours sincerely

Daniel Tulp
[1][Royal Mail Group request email]
Freedom of Information Unit
PO Box 341, ALDERSHOT, GU11 1WW

Royal Mail is a trading name of Royal Mail Group Ltd. Registered in
England and Wales.
Registered number 4138203. Registered office at 100 Victoria Embankment,
LONDON, EC4Y 0HQ

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Royal Mail Group Limited

13 April 2010

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Dear Ganesh Sittampalam

Please find attached a response to your recent Freedom of Information
Request.

Yours sincerely

Daniel Tulp
Freedom of Information Case Officer
[Royal Mail Group request email]

Royal Mail is a trading name of Royal Mail Group Ltd. Registered in
England and Wales.
Registered number 4138203. Registered office at 100 Victoria Embankment,
LONDON, EC4Y 0HQ

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From: Ganesh Sittampalam

13 April 2010

Dear Royal Mail Group,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Royal Mail Group's
handling of my FOI request 'junk mail in St Neots'.

You argue that Royal Mail should be able to "compete fairly in an
open market". But Royal Mail occupies an uniquely privileged
position in the Door-to-Door advertising market, by virtue of being
the monopoly mail provider; the incremental costs of delivering
junk mail are much lower than for any other provider as the costs
of visiting every house are already covered or mostly covered by
normal mail items. There is thus a strong public interest in
opening up information about the details of the impact your service
has on competitors who lack this subsidy.

In addition you mention the ability to be able to opt-out of the
delivery of junk mail. It was precisely to be able to make an
informed decision as to whether to opt out or not that I made this
request, and thus your belief that "the requested information would
[not] further inform the public" is simply wrong.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ju...

Yours faithfully,

Ganesh Sittampalam

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Royal Mail Group Limited

14 April 2010

Dear Mr Sittampalam

Re: Internal Review under the Freedom of Information Act

Thank you for your email received today requesting an internal review of
Royal Mail Group’s reply to your request for information under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000. This is receiving our attention and I will write
to you again once the internal review has been concluded.

In accordance with guidelines from the Information Commissioner’s Office,
Royal Mail will answer all appeals and requests for internal review of FOI
requests as soon as it reasonably can. This will usually be within 20
working days and in any case no later than 40 days from receipt of the
appeal.

In the mean time if you have any questions or would like to add any further
information for consideration then please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely,

MF Khushi
Company Secretary's Office

Royal Mail is a trading name of Royal Mail Group Ltd. Registered in England
and Wales.
Registered number 4138203. Registered office at 100 Victoria Embankment,
LONDON, EC4Y 0HQ

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Royal Mail Group Limited

13 May 2010

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Dear Mr Sittampalam

Please find attached a response to your request for an Internal Review from
Royal Mail Group.
(See attached file: Sittampalam IR.pdf)
Yours sincerely

Colin Young
Freedom of Information Manager
[Royal Mail Group request email]

Royal Mail is a trading name of Royal Mail Group Ltd. Registered in England
and Wales.
Registered number 4138203. Registered office at 100 Victoria Embankment,
LONDON, EC4Y 0HQ

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Ganesh Sittampalam left an annotation (16 July 2010)

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Ganesh Sittampalam left an annotation (30 June 2011)

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