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Royal Mail Group hands back £55 million and 662,000 employee hours with RPA across 85 automated processes
Royal Mail Group's manual processes across operations, customer experience, and finance created major inefficiencies at scale: delivery office managers spent early mornings manually pulling data from multiple separate systems before daily briefings, customer service agents were slowed by archaic legacy systems, and finance teams faced herculean manual effort managing account suspensions and reinstatements, leading to lost revenue.
How it works
Common implementation structure
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Stage 1 · Scheduled morning robot run
Unattended robots run six days a week from 3:00 am to 7:00 am across 1,250 offices.
Tools used
RPASamYaxYaxMan
Outcome
The RPA programme delivered £55 million in financial benefits—well above the original £13.7 million target, representing an ROI over 300% above expectations—and handed back approximately 662,000 hours of employee time across 85 automated processes.
Results
Time saved662,000 hours
Volumeover 300% above expectations
Cost replaced£55 million
Running since2017
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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