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 Google map. More: continued here
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 unveiled a 21pc fall …DOGBERRY:…
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 46-year-old, of Geddes Road, Sunderland, ……
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
BBC News Royal Mail sale was a mistakeHerald ScotlandRoyal Mail should never have been privatised and it is painfully clear that the UK Government should never have sold off a valuable public asset at well below its true value and despite all the warning about the end of the USO. We know the majority of…
This is Money DOGBERRY: 'Hand-held scanners' that can provide 'image capture'… Does …This is MoneyTHE ACCUSED: Moya Greene, chief executive, Royal Mail. WHAT SHE SAID: On 'next generation hand-held scanners' given to postmen, 'these new devices will enhance functionality, including the capability to provide interactive alerts and image capture'.and more » More: continued here
The company, whose parcels operation accounts for over half of group sales, cut its forecast for the annual rate of growth in the UK parcels market from a medium term target of 4% to as little as 1% over the next two years. More: continued here
stv.tv Strike at Royal Mail Dundee West Delivery Office in Baird Avenuestv.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…
Best of the boards: Quindell, Royal Mail and HalmaInteractive InvestorThis week on Interactive Investor's best of the boards, we take a look at how users reacted to news from Quindell, Royal Mail and Halma. There are yet more problems for Quindell, with what seems like every man and his dog leaving the company. It wasn't…
Shares fell more than 8 per cent to end 39.2p down at 430p after the privatised group revealed a slip in operating profits from £353m to £279m, while sales barely grew at £4.5bn. More: continued here