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Royal Mail bosses have issued an update to customers on proposed changes that were tipped to come into effect before the end of this year.

The heads of the UK's primary postal service said on Wednesday that it will not roll out adjustments that will see it ditch second-class letter deliveries on Saturdays more widely across the UK until early next year.

International Distribution Services (IDS) – a subsidiary group – has been running a pilot across 35 delivery offices to overhaul letter delivery services.

The trial has included scrapping second-class deliveries on Saturdays and changing the service to every other weekday.

It was given the green light by regulator Ofcom to start making the reforms from the end of July.

But in its half-year results, published on Wedn

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