In a further headache, Royal Mail risks another clash with unions after bruising strikes last year that cost the company £1m a day. The changes are expected to cut the number of delivery routes by up to 9,000 – a move that is expected to lead to around 1,000 redundancies. …

The five-bedroom mansion in Buckinghamshire was once owned by Narinder Sandhu who used the proceeds of an elaborate postage scam to buy it along with a Bentley and a Rolls-Royce The mansion once owned by a scammer who defrauded Royal Mail of £70m has gone up for sale ( Image: …

A MAJOR change to Royal Mail’s daily post has been revealed in a new bombshell plan that could see 1,000 job losses. The Royal Mail has outlined cuts to second-class letters by delivering them on only every other weekday. 2 1,000 voluntary redundancies could be taken with the plan, Royal …

If you’ve ever rummaged through a box of old postcards at an antiques fair, you might have noticed not only the quaint images from the 1890s or 1900s, but the extraordinary messages on the back: “Dear Cissie, Elsie and I will come for tea today. Will arrive about 4.30. Yours, …

Royal Mail has warned up to 1,000 jobs could be axed under bombshell plans put forward to slash its second-class letter delivery service. The company has outlined cuts to non-first class letters by delivering them only on every other weekday – and scrapping Saturday deliveries entirely. The postal giant said …

First and second class stamps. Photo James Manning/PA Wire Royal Mail is reportedly investigating claims that people have been wrongly fined after being sent letters with new barcoded stamps. Members of the public have complained they had to pay £5 penalties to collect post because the stamps were deemed to …

Royal Mail, which was split from the Post Office and privatised a decade ago, is legally obliged to deliver a one-price-goes-anywhere postal service, which means it has to deliver letters six days per week, Monday to Saturday, and parcels Monday to Friday. Source link

Royal Mail has launched a probe into counterfeit copies of its new barcoded stamps amid concerns customers are being wrongly fined to receive their mail. Many people have complained of being forced to pay a £5 fine to receive a letter because the stamp on the envelope was deemed to …

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Royal Mail has put forward proposals that would see first-class mail kept as a six-days-a-week service, but second-class letter deliveries cut dramatically. It …

International Distributions Services PLC unit Royal Mail on Wednesday proposed a change to its UK letter delivery offering, as it grapples with weaker volumes, in a move which could see ‘fewer than 1,000 voluntary redundancies’. The measures could trim the net cost of the UK postal universal service operation by …