Royal Mail is extending its International Tracked & Signed service for businesses and individuals exporting to 10 new countries around the world. From 30th March, customers will be able to track the progress of items sent from the UK to 53 countries worldwide and obtain a signature on delivery.

The new countries are: Spain, Turkey, Cyprus, Serbia, Latvia, Moldova, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia. In addition, Royal Mail will also be adding six new destinations to its International Tracked service, allowing customers to track their items from postage through to delivery in 39 countries worldwide. The new destinations are: Italy, Turkey, Slovakia, Slovenia, Israel and South Korea.

Enhancements to Despatch Manager Online

To make it even easier for customers and businesses to send items abroad, Royal Mail has also launched important enhancements to its Despatch Manager Online system which will improve UK and International shipping and labelling processes.

The new enhancements which improve shipping and labelling processes include:

1. Specific language characters for international shipments labels, e.g. Chinese, Japanese and Cyrillic.
2. Ability to produce relevant customs documentation for non-European shipments including CN22/CN23 declaration labels and commercial invoices.

This comes as research from Royal Mail found that two thirds (65 per cent) of UK SME online retailers are aiming to increase international sales in 2015, up by two thirds on a year ago when just four in ten (39 per cent) said they were planning to increase overseas sales in 2014.

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Source: Royal Mail Group