Royal Mail plans to roll out more parcel lockers in a bid to hold onto market share – James Linsell Clark / SWNS Royal Mail is to roll out its own parcel lockers in the new year as the postal service steps up its battle against Amazon. The first 250 …

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Postal giant Royal Mail wants to install thousands of lockers that allow customers to drop off and pick-up items whenever they want Royal Mail lockers allow people to drop off parcels instead of going to a Post Office ( Image: James Linsell Clark / SWNS) Royal Mail has launched its …

After several incidents of excrement and drug paraphernalia being found outside the delivery office in North Road, the company wants to sort the issue once and for all. It has applied to Brighton and Hove City Council to double the height of an existing 3ft fence, with secure gates, as the current fence …

North Antrim MP Jim Allister with staff at Royal Mail Delivery Office in Ballymena. Jim Allister MP visited postal workers at Ballymena Delivery Office on Thursday to find out more about what it takes to deliver letters and parcels in the peak Christmas period. Christmas is Royal Mail’s busiest period, …

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Police have announced that no charging decisions linked to the Post Office Horizon scandal will be made until the public inquiry’s final report is out. The investigation, now involving 100 officers from across the UK, is centred on possible perjury and perverting the course of justice related to the wrongful …

Three members of Sara Sharif’s family have been found guilty over the 10-year-old’s death after years of horrific abuse. Her father Urfan Sharif, 42, and stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, were found guilty of her murder and her uncle Faisal Malik, 29, was convicted of causing or allowing her death following …

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 — The first prisoner to earn a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree while in prison has been granted a royal pardon by the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, in conjunction with His Royal Highness’s birthday yesterday. The Prisons Department announced that Murad (not his …

By RICHARD EDEN DIARY EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 20:51 EST, 10 December 2024 | Updated: 21:41 EST, 10 December 2024 It has, in its time, been able to call upon the expertise of such disparate figures as ‘Steel Magnolia’ divorce lawyer Baroness (Fiona) Shackleton and former SAS officer-turned-courtier …