The mist from Bonfire Night has settled and companies are busy releasing their Christmas adverts – the festive period is hurtling full-speed towards us. You might not be quite as eager to put up the decorations as TV star Stacey Solomon, but Christmas is quickly approaching and before we know …
Read More »Royal Mail tracking down or not working issue acknowledged
New updates are being added at the bottom of this story……. Original story (published on November 10, 2022) follows: Royal Mail is a postal service company that operates throughout the United Kingdom. It is one of the most traditional and long-lived British companies, existing since 1516. Just in case you’re …
Read More »Islanders picking up own mail as staffing crisis hits
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Read More »Islanders picking up own mail as staffing crisis hits
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Read More »Tracking unavailable as outage exceeds 24 hours
Royal Mail, UK’s leading mail delivery service, has been experiencing ongoing outages with its online tracking services down for more than 24 hours at the time of writing. With Royal Mail’s Track & Trace website offline, British residents are unable to track their parcels, letters and mail deliveries. Royal failure BleepingComputer …
Read More »Royal Mail tracking down or not working issue acknowledged
New updates are being added at the bottom of this story……. Original story (published on November 10, 2022) follows: Royal Mail is a postal service company that operates throughout the United Kingdom. It is one of the most traditional and long-lived British companies, existing since 1516. Just in case you’re …
Read More »Increasing number of workers taking strike action over pay
A sign held by a postal worker from the Communication Workers Union on the picket line at the Royal Mail Whitechapel Delivery Office in east London The number of workers on strike or voting to take industrial action is increasing, threatening a winter of disruption to services ranging from the …
Read More »Winter of Discontent 2022: Which services and sectors are striking?
A round 100,000 civil servants have voted to go on strike, joining nurses, rail workers, university staff and potentially teachers in industrial action that threatens to cripple public services in the coming weeks. Workers represented by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, backed industrial action in strike ballots called …
Read More »Covid-19 claims another life in East Renfrewshire
Another life has been lost to Covid-19 in East Renfrewshire. Latest figures released by National Records of Scotland (NRS), covering the week ending November 6, show the total number of deaths in the area since the pandemic began two-and-a-half years ago has risen to 313. It is the fourth week …
Read More »Edinburgh cyclist Deacon Thurston spots Royal Mail workers on their phones while driving
An Edinburgh cyclist has captured three Royal Mail workers on their phones while driving in the past six months on his Go-Pro camera while out on the city’s streets. Self-proclaimed ‘GoPro-adorned Knight of the Active Travel Lobby’, Deacon Thurston raised the issue on Twitter with Royal Mail, after spotting drivers …
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