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stv.tv Extra staff drafted in to clear backlog after unofficial postal strikestv.tvRoyal Mail said it was continuing talks with Communications Workers Union (CWU). In order to clear a backlog of deliveries extra staff and managers have been drafted into the depot. Staff who took part in the unofficial strike will …

Hull Daily Mail Holderness villagers fight plans to turn The Royal Mail pub into a Co-opHull Daily MailVILLAGERS have vowed to fight plans to demolish a popular Holderness pub and turn it into a supermarket. More than 150 residents packed into Thorngumbald Village Hall for a meeting about the plans …

Metro Royal Mail may end daily deliveries as profits plummetMetroAccording to Royal Mail– whose profits have slumped by £74million while shares continue to drop – competing courier services are 'cherry-picking' highly-profitable business contracts while it must deliver to everyone in the country for the same price. More: continued here

I’VE just had a fun experience watching – on my laptop – the progress of my wife’s Christmas present being delivered to our front door (and no, she doesn’t know what it is). More: continued here

The Independent Rivals should be made to deliver daily, and to any address, Royal Mail tells MPsThe IndependentIn evidence to the Business Select Committee, Royal Mail has called for a new regulatory framework to be imposed on Whistl, formerly TNT Post. The Dutch-owned company has become a significant competitor this …

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Scotsman George Kerevan: Ailing Royal Mail can't hideScotsmanIt arrived thanks to Interlink, a commercial parcel delivery company that is actually owned by La Poste, the state-owned French equivalent of the Royal Mail. Log on to its website and you can follow the progress of your delivery van on a moving …

Telegraph.co.uk Royal Mail's Moya Greene should stop whinging and start deliveringTelegraph.co.ukEven the name – universal service obligation – implies an unwanted burden. And that was certainly the thrust of Moya Greene's complaint this week when, little more than a year after Royal Mail was floated on the stock market, she …

Sunderland Echo Royal Mail worker faces jail after stealing cash from Sunderland bossesSunderland EchoA ROYAL Mail worker has been warned he faces jail after stealing cash from his bosses for almost six years. Kevin Dunn is accused of taking more than £53,000 while working at Doxford Park in Sunderland. The …

The universal service obligation is a privilege which in the right hands would be hugely valuable, not the curse Royal Mail pretends More: continued here