article_snippet: Royal Mail has stepped up the amount of junk mail Royal Mail stuffs through our doors since Royal Mail was sold off by the Government, new figures show.
article_snippet: Critics last night called for Royal Mail to reduce the amount of ‘nuisance’ junk mail it delivers or risk becoming a ‘leaflet distributor’.
article_snippet: Royal Mail admitted junk Royal Mail had become an ‘important component’ of Royal Mail business, and insisted many households found advertising flyers
article_snippet: ‘Royal Mail and Royal Mail direct marketing clients have to do far more to reduce the torrent of junk mail.
article_snippet: ’ Robert Rijkhoff, of the Stop Junk Mail campaign said: ‘Royal Mail needs to make money but, if Royal Mail deliver more and more junk mail as a source of income, in the long term I am not sure it is a sustainable business.
article_snippet: ‘Royal Mail is delivering less and less letters.
article_snippet: Royal Mail are risking that, in time, Royal Mail will become a leaflet distributor.
article_snippet: Critics said Royal Mail was running the risk of being labelled a 'leaflet distributor' with fewer letters being posted every year .
article_snippet: In 2011, the National Fraud Authority claimed the Royal Mail logo was seen by some victims as a stamp of legitimacy, making the scammers appear more trustworthy.
article_snippet: At the time, Mike Haley, director of the National Fraud Authority, Royal Mail and other delivery firms needed to ‘understand the terrible consequences of delivery of Royal Mail to some people’.
article_snippet: Despite this claim, first and second-class stamps will rise by a penny to 63p and 54p respectively on March 30, sparking claims that loyal customers are being forced to prop up flagging revenue.
article_snippet: The news sparked accusations from MPs that Royal Mail had taken the ‘easy option’ to raise stamp prices instead of fighting for new custom by improving Royal Mail services.
article_snippet: Adrian Bailey, chairman of the influential Business Select Committee, said Royal Mail must invest in new technology and focus on efficiency, rather than simply increasing prices to boost profits.
highlights_snippet: But critics said Royal Mail risked being labelled 'leaflet distributor' 