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The mail arrives at Belmont, Unst. photo: Royal Mail ISLES MP Alistair Carmichael has called on postal regulator Ofcom to reject proposals from Royal Mail to cut back on delivery services. On Wednesday the company published proposals to cut services including changing the delivery of all non first class letters …

The luxury home of a disgraced former mailing boss is going up for auction with a guide price of nearly £3m. Narinder Sandhu was jailed for four years in February. He was the architect of a huge £70m-plus fraud against Royal Mail when he ran Aylesbury-based Packpost International. The fraud …

Proactive Investors – When Royal Mail (LON:) parent International Distributions Services PLC called for a reduction in its letter delivery services it painted a “a picture of financial distress that is not reflected in current consensus forecasts”, analysts said. Following the calls from the delivery group for all non-first-class letters …

Royal Mail had originally proposed the termination of its current low-cost age-verified service which would have left smaller UK suppliers and … Source link

When Royal Mail parent International Distributions Services PLC (LSE:IDS) called for a reduction in its letter delivery services it painted a “a picture of financial distress that is not reflected in current consensus forecasts”, analysts said. Following the calls from the delivery group for all non-first-class letters and bulk mail to be delivered every …

Royal Mail has come under fire from small businesses and greetings card firms over plans to slash daily second-class letter deliveries. The company revealed plans yesterday to scrap the deliveries on Saturdays and cut the service to just five times every two weeks.  But critics including the Federation of Small Businesses …

The ex-employee from Colchester, who worked as a postman and at a distribution centre in Chelmsford, has lifted the lid on the inner workings of Royal Mail. It comes after countless residents in the city reported being left without mail for weeks on end, with some missing important hospital appointments as …