Royal Mail in profit, but £10 billion pension deficit (Daily Telegraph)

Bude's Ha'Penny PostmanThis is CornwallWhen we all had a grumble on Bude People about the planned Royal Mail hike in postal prices, no one seriously thought that the Bude man who mooted the idea of a local postal service, delivered on his ha-penny farthing, for only 25p a letter, …and more » More: continued here

Morning papers: MPs slam adviser over £8m Royal Mail profitFT AdviserThe investment arm of the government's independent adviser on the privatisation of Royal Mail made an £8m profit selling shares in the company during the first week of trading, the Financial Times revealed. Lazard's bankers faced criticism from MPs … More: continued here

The Guardian A third of Xmas post on timeThe SunONLY a THIRD of first class post arrived on time over Christmas – shaming bosses at ROYAL MAIL. The Post Office operator yesterday admitted it was "unable to deliver everything to our usual high standards". Only 33.7 per cent of first …Royal Mail suffers Christmas deliveries…

[ad_1] London-listed International Distribution Services told markets it would publish its full-year financial results at 7am on Thursday, but by 11.30am nothing had been released. It comes a week after the company said it was “minded” to agree to a takeover by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky. Mr Kretinsky, whose EP Group owns a 27.5% stake…