Editing Ofcom (section)

===Postal services===
In October 2010 the government announced plans for Ofcom to inherit the functions of [[Postal Services Commission|Postcomm]] as part of a wider set of public service sell-off measures.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ofcom to cut staff by a fifth
 |author=Tim Bradshaw |newspaper=[[Financial Times]] |date=21 October 2010 |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/93ac5de2-dd25-11df-9236-00144feabdc0.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/93ac5de2-dd25-11df-9236-00144feabdc0.html |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Following the [[Postal Services Act 2011]] regulatory responsibility for postal services transferred to Ofcom on 1 October 2011, with its primary duty to maintain the UK's six-day-a-week universal postal service.