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Royal Mail is creating 400 temporary jobs in Northern Ireland, to help sort an increase volume of post over the Christmas period. More: continued here

Royal Mail seeks 400 temporary Christmas staff in Northern IrelandBBC NewsRoyal Mail is creating 400 temporary jobs in Northern Ireland, to help sort post over the Christmas period. The jobs will be based predominantly in County Antrim, at the company's mail centre in Newtownabbey and at its operations in Donegall …

This is Cornwall Privatising Royal Mail is 'final nail in coffin'This is CornwallPrivatising the Royal Mail will be a "recipe for disaster" for rural areas and hammer the "final nail in the coffin" of the Post Offices network, Labour has claimed. The Opposition's warning of the Government "playing politics with …

Shields Gazette Don't privatise Royal MailShields GazetteGAZETTE readers will have seen a recent letter from the Royal Mail on privatisation and share issue. My members voted by more than 96 per cent in a recent ballot against these proposals. More people are becoming aware, and there is growing public and …Royal …

Portsmouth News Royal Mail staff Portsmouth 'in need of job security'Portsmouth NewsPORTSMOUTH'S Royal Mail workers are seeing the 'sharp end' of the need for job security, the Communication Workers Union has said. Its 125,000 members are being balloted on whether they will strike on October 10 over pay, pensions and …

Deaf awareness training delivered to Royal Mail staff24dash (press release)Night shift staff from Royal Mail are usually preparing and sorting mail for the next day but for one sorting office in Cheshire, something else was getting delivered. Managers at Warrington Mail Centre received Deaf and disability awareness training … More: …

Shrewsbury Royal Mail sorting office due to close by Marchshropshirestar.comBut Royal Mail bosses refused to confirm their closure plans and said discussions were continuing with staff. Up to 240 people work at the historic sorting office, which has been processing mail since 1880, and last November union bosses claimed that …

Shropshire’s only Royal Mail sorting office is expected to be fully closed by March next year, it was revealed today. More: continued here

One MP, Douglas Carswell, described his horror when he discovered many of the 351 ‘anti-privatisation’ postcards he has received over the past three weeks were bogus. More: continued here

Yorkshire Post Petition fights Royal Mail privatisationYorkshire PostA 160,000-NAME petition against the Government's controversial plan to privatise the Royal Mail has been handed in to Downing Street, showing the “strong opposition” across the country. More than 120,000 of the names have been collected by Exeter … More: continued here