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THE Royal Mail is hoping to recruit an extra 780 staff in the Capital to help cope with the Christmas post. More: continued here

CAMPAIGNERS battling to save Holbeach’s delivery office say they are about to launch the next phase of their plans. A total of 2,000 postcards criticising Royal Mail’s plans have been printed by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) in a bid to drum up support. More: continued here

An American man who sent hundreds of letters to the Queen was driven by his obsession to set up home within sight of Buckingham Palace, on an island in St James’s Park. More: continued here

The Guardian (blog) Royal Mail's'neighbourly' delivery service has a hidden causeThe Guardian (blog)Staff unload vans at Royal Mail's sorting office in Filton, Bristol one of the biggest in the UK. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images How well do you know your neighbour? Well enough to trust him with your valuables, for …

Daily Mail Kate Middleton: Does the Firm know what to do with the Duchess of Cambridge?Daily MailFor the moment, the RAF, rather than his Royal future, is the focus. In a rare interview with the Mail's Robert Hardman last week, the 29-year-old Flight Lieutenant seemed happy not to consider any …

Postcard bid to save mail officeSpalding TodayA total of 2000 postcards criticising Royal Mail's plans have been printed by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) in a bid to drum up support. The union is calling on local businesses and residents to pick up a postcard, which will soon be available …

No hope for privatized postal serviceFredericksburg.comAn easy solution would have been to make available a product like one the Royal Mail of Great Britain offers: sheets of postage stamps with a perforated tab attached to each stamp. On the tabs are printed a photograph that the customer has submitted. …and …

Anglophenia (blog) Will and Kate open children's cancer wardUSA TodayIt's the hospital Princess Diana chose for her first solo charity trip, reports the Daily Mail. Kate, never one to be flashy, wore a simple cream Amanda Wakeley dress and her favorite LK Bennett nude heels, according to the Mail. The …

Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital tells foreigners – go back where you came fromNEWS.com.auThe Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital has begun turning away non-Australians. Picture: Paul Riley Source: The Courier-Mail QUEENSLAND'S biggest public hospital has secretly banned some treatments for non-Australians in a bid to save money. …and more » More: …

Postal archive is safeThe GuardianIn 2004, Royal Mail Group took the pioneering step to establish the BPMA as a charitable trust. A deliberate decision was taken to protect artefacts by placing them in separate legal ownership, and the archive material is classified as public record … More: continued here