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Royal Mail can expect harsh criticism from communications watchdog Ofcom when it publishes its annual update on the postal service next month, according to media reports. More: continued here

The Edinburgh Reporter Royal Mail change posting timesThe Edinburgh ReporterOur reader Jon Chase realised that the collection time on his local postbox near Ferry Road has been changed from evening to morning, and he has explained that this does not really suit him. See the conversation below between Mr Chase and the Royal … More: continued…

The Independent Exclusive: Ofcom to criticise Royal Mail efficiencyThe IndependentShould Ofcom agree, this will undermine Royal Mail's push to enforce new regulation on Whistl and other potential rivals in delivering mail directly to homes and small businesses. Royal Mail's chief executive, Moya Greene, believes Whistl's emergence …Postal shake-up would damage rural communities, says CLAThe Journalall…

Scotsman DPD seeks to put Royal Mail under further pressure with hiringFinancial TimesThe move is a shot across the bows of recently privatised Royal Mail, which last week blamed a 21 per cent fall in interim operating profits on the retailing giant Amazon's move to deliver more of its own packages. The postal service said…

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 lose one day's pay …Dundee…

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 to transform The Royal Mail…

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 year as it has started…

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