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A growing campaign is calling on Royal Mail to relent and paint a postbox gold in honour of a north Norfolk Olympic champion horse. More: continued here

Journal Times (blog) Britain's Royal Mail in hot water over gold medal Paralympic discriminationJournal Times (blog)While most of Great Britain celebrates surpassing the nation's prescribed pre-Olympics total medals target, the Royal Mail service has found a way to embroil itself in a political snafu after it admitted that it would …

A growing campaign is calling on Royal Mail to relent and paint a postbox gold in honour of a north Norfolk Olympic champion horse. More: continued here

A mystery fan of Olympic medal-winning boxer Anthony Ogogo paints a postbox in his home town bronze. More: continued here

Maidenhead Advertiser Royal Mail: 'Please stop meddling with our postboxes'The IndependentA postbox in Doddington, near Lincoln, the home of Team GB's bronze-medal-winning hockey player Georgie Twigg, was painted bronze, only for Royal Mail to paint it red again. A bronze box has appeared in Lowestoft, the home of bronze-winning boxer …

A wave of vigilante postbox painting is sweeping the nation, it seems. After Royal Mail promised to paint a postbox gold in the home town of all Great Britain's Olympic gold-medal winners, overlooked locals have taken matters into their own hands. More: continued here

The Guardian Royal Mail will issue stamp for every UK Paralympic gold medal winnerThe GuardianAndrew Hammond, Managing Director, Royal Mail Stamps, said it was the "right thing" to do. Previously Royal Mail had statement the greater number of Paralympic gold medals expected made it too difficult to produce a stamp …

Telegraph.co.uk Royal Mail signs Chinese joint ventureTelegraph.co.ukGLS, the European parcel business of Royal Mail, has formed an alliance with ZJS Express, which will see the two companies create a China-to-Europe service. Mark Thomson, managing director of Royal Mail's international operations, said the deal with …Royal Mail in parcel deal with …

The Royal Mail has formed a joint venture with a Chinese delivery company in an effort to grow its parcel delivery business. More: continued here

Royal Mail will issue individual and team stamps for ParalympicGB gold medallists. More: continued here