limited company traded as lse ukm area served united kingdom products postal services website www.ukmail.com uk mail formerly known as business post is a private postal service company in the united kingdom 1 which has competed with the royal mail in collection and distribution of mail since the deregulation of the postal service in january 2006 . 2 its distribution network delivers mail to local royal mail sorting offices for last mile delivery through downstream access . uk mail competes primarily with royal mail along with deutsche post and whistl . 3 contents 1 history 2 additional services 3 references 4 external links history edit uk mail originated as a taxi firm in harrow in 1971 . in just a few years the company evolved into a national business offering same day courier and overnight parcel delivery . by 1986 the now much larger company became business post and was listed on the london stock exchange in 1993 . uk mail was granted a seven year licence by postcomm in 2003 to provide postal services for business customers . 4 it began trading in 2004 with powergen as its first customer and delivered its one billionth item of mail in october 2006 . 5 in 2009 its parent company business post group became uk mail group to reflect the growing importance of the mail arm . 6 in 2015 problems caused by a new automated sorting hub resulted in a loss in profit and a share price drop . 7 in september 2016 uk mail was bought by deutsche post dhl . 8 additional services edit this section does not cite any sources . please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . august 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message ipostparcels is part of the uk mail group . offering next day collection and delivery parcel services uk mail introduced this service in september 2011 offering consumers a pay as you go service without the need for contracts . imail is also part of the uk mail group . it is a hybrid mail service that allows customers to create proof and send business and personal communications online from their computer . items are received electronically and then printed out to be sent utilising uk mails distribution network . imail also won the growth award at the world mail awards 2013 . uk mail is seeing an increase in parcel volumes from internet shopping year on year . references edit uk mail group plc ukm.l company profile . retrieved 7 august 2013 . post service opens to competition . 1 january 2006 . retrieved 7 august 2013 . privatised mail a second class delivery . 29 april 2011 . retrieved 7 august 2013 . business post s uk mail granted long term licence by postcomm . 12 june 2003 . retrieved 7 august 2013 . uk mail makes a one in a billion delivery . 17 october 2006 . retrieved 7 august 2013 . business post to become uk mail . 15 july 2009 . retrieved 7 august 2013 . uk mail profits hit by hq move . 18 november 2015 . retrieved 8 august 2016 . deutsche post dhl bernimmt uk mail in german . 28 september 2016 . retrieved 4 october 2016 . external links edit uk mail ipostparcels imail v t e postal administrations of europe land islands albania andorra armenia austria azerbaijan bosnia and herzegovina bh po ta hrvatska po ta mostar po te srpske belarus belgium bulgaria croatia cyprus czech republic denmark estonia faroe islands finland france georgia germany gibraltar greece greenland guernsey hungary iceland ireland isle of man italy jersey kosovo latvia liechtenstein lithuania luxembourg macedonia malta moldova monaco montenegro netherlands norway poland portugal romania russia san marino serbia slovakia slovenia spain sweden switzerland turkey united kingdom ukraine vatican city private postal services of europe bring citymail deutsche post pin group uk mail retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title uk mail & oldid 742527167 categories postal organisationspostal system of the united kingdomservice companies of the united kingdom2004 establishments in the united kingdomcompanies established in 2004hidden categories cs1 german language sources de articles needing additional references from august 2016all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 06 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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