PRESS DIGEST- Financial Times – Oct. 26

Royal Mail make a Smart Stamp: stamps are suddenly interestingShiny Shiny (blog)Royal Mail have just released the coolest stamp of a train ever. It's a smart stamp that has a code that can be read by Android handsets or iPhones. … More: continued here

[ad_1] Selling unloved nationalised businesses back to the private sector is anything but easy. Margaret Thatcher had to hold her nose for years as she injected public money into state-owned British Leyland, a byword for unreliable cars and rancorous industrial relations, before finally offloading it to British Aerospace. It took 13 years under public ownership…

Post to arrive later after route changesThis is StaffordshireRoyal Mail has pledged to write to every address in Burslem about the proposed changes. Collections and Delivery Office Manager, Jagdeep Bhela, said: "Royal Mail is making some changes to the way it delivers mail over the next few weeks. "From this … More: continued here

Evening Times Warning given to bereaved Royal Mail postal worker sparks sudden strike in GreenockEvening TimesMORE than a hundred Greenock-based Royal Mail postal and delivery workers downed tools in a sudden strike — delaying mail from Port Glasgow to Skelmorlie. The stoppage was over a formal warning given to a worker at the Knowe Road…

[ad_1] Postal workers from Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire joined more than 100,000 postal workers across the UK in walking out last Friday in a dispute over pay. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said its members were taking industrial action for a “dignified, proper pay rise” after they voted in favour by 97.6% in a ballot. The strike…