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Royal Mail has warned up to 1,000 jobs could be axed under plans put forward to the industry watchdog to scrap second-class letter deliveries on Saturdays and cut the service to every other week day. In its submission to Ofcom's consultation on the future of the universal postal service, Royal Mail said its proposals would see all non first-class letter deliveries including second class and bulk business mail reduced to save it up to £300 million a year. This would mean that second-class deliveries on Saturdays would be scrapped. Under the plans, Royal Mail would deliver second-class mail in some streets on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, with others receiving letters on Tuesday and Thursday. The delivery schedule would be alternated every week. First-class letter deliveries would remain six days a week, in a climbdown on previous calls for all Saturday letter deliveries to be scrapped, while Royal Mail said parcels would continue to be delivered up to seven days a week. Royal M...