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The news that postal workers are being pressured by Royal Mail managers to walk at a set speed on their delivery rounds will doubtless prompt differing reactions. Some will regard it as an outrageous attempt by bureaucrats to force ordinary workers to conform to their bloodless spread-sheet efficiency models. Others …

KUALA LUMPUR: Pos Malaysia has set up a mobile post office and a mail operations room to serve Bukit Antarabangsa residents. More: continued here