Royal Mail

The company said it has written to union leader Dave Ward to complain about a pattern of “wholly unacceptable behaviour” on the picket lines. The union has strongly denied the allegations and insisted that picketing has been peaceful since the start of strikes. A sign held by a postal worker …

Royal Mail has clashed with the main union representing postal workers as they staged another strike in the long-running dispute over jobs, pay and conditions. The company said it has written to Dave Ward, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), claiming a pattern of “wholly unacceptable behaviour” on …

Royal Mail is asking its customers to post their mail earlier than usual for Christmas this year as a result of the ongoing strike action by CWU. The Company is bringing forward its Latest Recommended Posting Dates for domestic and international mail to help manage any impact from planned strike …

By Michael Susin The U.K.’s Office of Communications said Friday that it has warned Royal Mail it can’t continue to rely on the impact of Covid-19 to justify poor delivery performance. The regulator said an investigation between April 2021 and March 2022 concluded that the postal-services company failed to meet …

Royal Mail cannot keep blaming the coronavirus pandemic for failing to make deliveries on time as its performance is falling “well short of where it should be”, the postal regulator has said. Ofcom said an investigation found that Royal Mail failed to meet several of its annual delivery targets, including …

Royal Mail has been told it cannot continue to blame Covid for late deliveries – after it missed key targets last year because of the pandemic. Regulator Ofcom ended a probe into Royal Mail’s performance between April 2021 and March 2022 by saying it failed to hit some of its …

A “proud” postman has challenged the CEO of Royal Mail, Simon Thompson, to a week on the job as he joins the picket line in Leicester. Lee Chapman, who delivers post in Beaumont Leys, said he was struggling in the job he has loved for 10 years, as he joined …

UK farmers are receiving negligible profits for many items as food prices rise and supermarkets boast record takings. An average block of cheese or loaf of bread produces less than a penny for farmers, and fruit producers do not fare much better, making just 3p from each kilo of apples. …

THE Covid pandemic turned our lives upside down. Many workers were furloughed. Many made the shift to working from home. Others lost their jobs completely. But many also kept our vital services going, day in, day out, often at personal risk and family burden. Our posties are just one such …

Christmas postal chaos is looming, it has been claimed, after photos emerged showing what appears to be a huge backlog of mail piling up at depots from the recent wave of strikes. The images are said to have been taken in the last few days, the Mirror reported, and show …