Royal Mail

The first red postbox bearing King Charles III’s cypher has been installed more than a year after his coronation – with the mystery location finally revealed. The Royal Mail today announced the location of the historic round pillar box, considered a British classic. Charles granted the Royal Mail special use of …

Wayne Reynolds, aka the man who defined the look of D&D back in 3E and 4E (and Pathfinder), made eight stamps for the Royal Mail. I don’t know why it seems fitting that D&D is getting postage stamps as part of its 50th Anniversary. But it does. Maybe because D&D …

Dear Editor, In issue 280 I wrote, in Soapbox, about how ferry costs had stopped my wife and I having a short mainland break to celebrate her 60th birthday. The discount vouchers expired before the return journey. It’s now July 11, and I’m still waiting for Fran Co££ins “Big Book …

Post box insignia may pass unnoticed by most of us, but the King has followed a little-known tradition and given the stamp of approval to a new-look design. Royal Mail’s red boxes have been marked with the cypher of the reigning monarch since their introduction in the 19th century. But …

Royal Mail Group has confirmed that the Royal Mail Collective Pension Plan will launch as the UK’s first collective defined contribution plan on October 7, 2024. The new CDC passed the Regulator’s assessment process in 2023 and every employee with at least a year’s service will be eligible to join.  …

A rare breed of goat will be granted a special title when King Charles III visits Guernsey next week for the first time since his accession to the throne. The Golden Guernsey Goat breed will be renamed the Royal Golden Guernsey Goat on 16 July. It is the first time …

Royal Mail has made a new set of DnD stamps available to pre-order, celebrating 50 years since the creation of well-known roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. All 14 stamps in the set have been illustrated by British artist Wayne Reynolds, with 11 images being specially commissioned for this set. Reynolds …

West Atlantic (United Kingdom) (NPT, Nottingham East Midlands) will retire two B737-300(F)s and three B737-400(SF)s after the carrier’s largest British customer, Royal Mail, announced plans to cut its postal flight network significantly. The carrier hinted at adding A321s as it moves forward. The airline’s spokesperson told The Loadstar that it …

It is also re-designing its operations and network to focus on parcels, improving energy efficiency and using low-carbon transport modes. Royal Mail has deployed biofuels for its heavy goods vehicles in the form of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil that cuts emissions by up to 90%. Biofuels helped the company cut back …

The first red post box with the cypher of King Charles III has been revealed by the Royal Mail. Julie Spence, the Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, unveiled the post box on High Street, Great Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, with the assistance of children from the Vine Inter-Church Primary School. The pupils posted the …