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The new design – the biggest change to the postbox in its 175-year history – was trialled in Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire earlier this year, and will now be installed in cities including Edinburgh, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Sunderland. Customers scan a barcode on the Royal Mail app to open the …

After 175 years, the Royal Mail has announced the biggest design change to the iconic red postboxes. BATH, UNITED KINGDOM – JANUARY 20: A man posting a letter during shoot for Official Windows Magazine, January 20, 2011. (Photo by Joseph Branston/Official Windows Magazine via Getty Images)(Image: Joseph Branston/Getty Images) One …

Royal Mail is rolling out 3,500 solar-powered postboxes across the UK to make sending, returning and collecting parcels more convenient.   It follows a successful pilot earlier this year in Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire and they are now rolling out across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with cities including Edinburgh, …

Global postal services are keen to ensure proper systems are in place for the US’ new import taxes. Credit: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com. Postal services, including the UK’s Royal Mail and Germany’s DHL said they would suspend deliveries until they had proper systems in place to deal with the new rules, according to …

Patients battling illnesses such as cancer, heart conditions and dementia could see improvement in their treatment as a result of a funding boost, a health minister said. A new facility in Darlington, called the UK RNA Biofoundry, will be backed by £29.6m from the government. RNA therapies re-programme immune cells …

Members of the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) have delivered an “emphatic” yes vote in a ballot over the trade union’s Royal Mail settlement on pay and conditions. CWU members were asked to vote on a whether they accept or reject the latest agreement, which includes a 4.2% year-one pay rise …

The Trump administration said it’s ending the exemption to protect Americans. It said the provision, which was codified in the U.S. tax code, has been used to “evade tariffs and funnel deadly synthetic opioids as well as other unsafe or below-market products that harm American workers and businesses into the …

Terry Gerton Let’s start by having you give us an explanation for how the U.S. Postal Service uses the pre-career employee category. It’s very different from what happens in other organizations. David Garcia It is. So a little bit about pre-career employees at the Postal Service. They make up about …

U.S. shoppers ordering smaller goods from abroad are being met with waves of cancellation notices ahead of a key trade rule change ordered by the Trump administration. On Friday, the United States will end the nearly century-old de minimis exemption, which allowed items worth less than $800 to be shipped …

The move follows a US executive order last month A postman carries bags of mail into Blackfriars Crown Court, London.(Image: PA Images) Royal Mail has announced it will be the first international postal operator to launch new services so that people can continue sending goods to the United States ahead …