Royal Mail takes a hit from GDPR
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Royal Mail (LON:RMG) is to monitor the impact of GDPR data regulations on business customers after letter volume declines accelerated while trading remained in line with expectations.
Group underlying revenue rose 2% in the three months to 24 June, while UK parcels, international and letters revenue fell 1% as parcel revenue rose 6% and total letter revenue dropped 7%. Excluding the effect of elections a year earlier, letter revenue fell about 5%.
“Due to the potential impact of GDPR and, or, if business uncertainty persists, we still expect to be at the higher end of the range of decline for 2018-19 and may fall outside the range in a period,” commented the company.
Shares in Royal Mail rose 16.8p to 497.6p (as at 11:13 BST).
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