Royal Mail aims to cash in on a booming second-hand online market by altering the design of some of its postboxes. A trial is under way that modernises the traditional red letterbox to accommodate parcel senders. Users will go to the Royal Mail website or app to preorder postage, then …

Royal Mail has revealed some of it’s iconic red postboxes have undergone a “glow up”, making life much easier for senders. The organisation’s new pilot scheme boasts technical advances and it is hoped the convenience will boost the falling numbers of those using the postal service. Earlier this year, Ofcom …

Royal Mail is targeting forecourts as part of its ambitions to become the biggest self-service parcel locker provider in the UK, despite being a late arrival to the market. That is according to the delivery business’s director of partnerships and acquisitions Anna Malley at this week’s National Convenience Show. She …

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Cath McGee, who lives in Woodlands, says she has been consistently experiencing problems receiving letters from Royal Mail for around a year.   Cath, who previously worked as a postie for five years from the late ’80s, first noticed a delay to her birthday cards arriving in January 2024.   READ NEXT: Locals …

In exciting news for anyone with a thriving Vinted side hustle, Royal Mail has just unveiled its new and improved ‘postbox of the future’, set to make sending stuff across the UK much, much simpler.  This is the biggest change to Britain’s postboxes since they were born more than 175 years …

Church secretary accused of exposing himself told by judge he’s ‘excluded’ from coastal town Samuel Houston’s case has sent shockwaves through Portstewart A postmaster and church secretary accused of exposing himself on Portstewart’s promenade has signed his business over. District Judge Peter King told Samuel Houston that now he is …

Royal Mail has unveiled a solar-powered postbox of the future as the company continues to find ways to make sending parcels easier. The iconic postbox design has been given a modern makeover including an extra-large opening to accept parcels larger than those that fit through a letterbox for the first …

84% of Jersey islanders rated their local postal service as good or very good, according to the 2025 Customer Survey, conducted by Jersey Post. Islanders also saw improvements in sending off-island, to and from the UK, with 55% rating this service as good or very good (compared with 34% last …

Solar-powered postboxes with an extra-large slot for parcels are being trialled by Royal Mail. The firm says it is the biggest change to the design of the red postbox since its introduction more than 175 years ago. Five postboxes are currently being piloted – one in Fowlmere in Cambridgeshire, and …