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Telegraph.co.uk Channel Island tax loophole to closeManchester Evening NewsIt was designed to speed up the transit of lower-value goods and make life easier for HM Revenue & Customs, Royal Mail and consumers who would have to collect or pay small amounts of VAT on large numbers of low-value packages. …VAT …

It was revealed last week that postmen have been ordered to boycott homes on ‘unmade’ roads in Benfleet, Essex, because of health and safety fears. More: continued here

Evening Standard Great Portland Profit Declines 31% on RedevelopmentBusinessWeekIt is being leased back to the vendor, the Royal Mail Group, for rent of 4.6 million pounds until June 2013. Great Portland will lodge a new planning application seeking increased density than a previous application submitted by Royal Mail, …Great Portland …

Postmen's bikes banned over health and safety fearsCroydon AdvertiserRoyal Mail's move to ban bikes, used for deliveries for decades, will be phased in across Croydon within the next 18 months. The plans are part of wide-sweeping reforms which will eventually see the ban extended across the whole of the UK. …

Daily Mail Benfleet's bumpy roads stop Royal Mail delivering and council's recycling …Daily MailBy Daily Mail Reporter Dismayed residents who were not delivered post because the Royal Mail said their roads were too bumpy have now been told they won't have their recycling picked up either. It was revealed last …

Yorkshire Evening Post Campaigners fight to save Leeds Royal Mail officeYorkshire Evening PostPostal workers and councillors have launched a campaign to save a Royal Mail delivery office in Leeds. Royal Mail is to close its York Road office which serves the LS9 East Leeds postcode area. The closure is due …

Daily Mail Now bumpy road which stopped Royal Mail delivering sees council refuse to …Daily MailBy Daily Mail Reporter Dismayed residents who were not delivered post because the Royal Mail said their roads were too bumpy have now been told they won't have their recycling picked up either. It was …

Postal workers and councillors have launched a campaign to save a Royal Mail delivery office in Leeds. More: continued here

Royal Mail invests to aid online shopping deliveries this ChristmasShopsafeThe Royal Mail is said to be spending around £15 million more on enhancing its delivery networks ahead of the Christmas e-commerce rush in 2011 than it has in previous years. An extra nine sorting sites will be opened up around …

Scotland Courier Customers wait to see if Royal Mail can deliver on promise of better Christmas …Scotland CourierRoyal Mail is to introduce greater resources over the festive period in a bid to avoid the kind of chaos that hit deliveries in Dundee East last winter. The Dundee East office was …