Fenland Today setback in battle to save sorting officeFenland TodayDespite suggestions for alternative sites in the town, if plans go ahead for the Park Street sorting office to close, Royal Mail told the Citizen that so far, none of the suggestions meet its “business needs”. The comment comes in the …
Read More »Worker scarred by cancer wins £7k payout after insult from colleague – Stoke & Staffordshire
Worker scarred by cancer wins £7k payout after insult from colleagueStoke & StaffordshireKeith Deaville, above, suffered daily taunts from a work-mate at Etruria's Royal Mail call centre over a plastic mask he wore following surgery. The 54-year-old's torment had started shortly after he returned to work in July 2009 following …
Read More »Royal Mail recruitment row as bosses set up their own temp agency – Mirror.co.uk
Royal Mail recruitment row as bosses set up their own temp agencyMirror.co.ukROYAL Mail has sparked outrage by secretly setting up its own recruitment agency to fill thousands of temporary jobs. Unions fear the move is a “devious ploy” to save money and get around new … More: continued here
Read More »POSTMAN QUITS OVER CLAIM HE HOARDED MAIL FOR YEARS – Express.co.uk
POSTMAN QUITS OVER CLAIM HE HOARDED MAIL FOR YEARSExpress.co.ukA POSTMAN was caught with as many as 10000 undelivered letters and packages in his house, according to Royal Mail investigators. David McLean is alleged to have kept bundles of letters, cards and parcels in his home in … More: continued here
Read More »Market Drayton’s post ‘piling up after round changes’ – shropshirestar.com
shropshirestar.com Market Drayton's post 'piling up after round changes'shropshirestar.comA backlog of undelivered post is piling up in Market Drayton following a shake-up of rounds by Royal Mail, a postal worked claimed today. The worker, who asked not to be named, said delivery staff had been bombarded with questions from fed-up …
Read More »Under threat: 400 years of social history – The Guardian
The Guardian Under threat: 400 years of social historyThe GuardianPacked into two and a half miles of shelving in an underground former boiler room at the Royal Mail's Mount Pleasant sorting office in Clerkenwell are records relating to more than 400 years of postal communications. It is an extraordinary resource, …
Read More »Market Drayton’s post ‘piling up after round changes’
A backlog of undelivered post is piling up in Market Drayton following a shake-up of rounds by Royal Mail, a postal worked claimed today. More: continued here
Read More »Royal Mail suspends plan to add “Delivered by” label to mail – Post and Parcel
Royal Mail suspends plan to add “Delivered by” label to mailPost and ParcelRoyal Mail has confirmed it will not be implementing its plans to splash “Delivered by Royal Mail” logos on all machine-sort mail from this month. It won't decide on its course of action until early November. The company …
Read More »Royal Mail admits it can’t deliver every day in Orpington – News Shopper
Royal Mail admits it can't deliver every day in OrpingtonNews ShopperMr Dix, minister at The Oak Community Church in St Paul's Cray, raised the issue with Royal Mail, who replied admitting they couldn't deliver every day. The letter said: "Since the implementation of the modernisation review we have not always …
Read More »To boulder-ly go: Royal Navy shows off flying skills with dangerous landing on … – Daily Mail
Daily Mail To boulder-ly go: Royal Navy shows off flying skills with dangerous landing on …Daily MailBy Daily Mail Reporter A Royal Navy crew showed off their exceptional flying skills by carefully landing a Lynx helicopter on a perilous, sloping boulder. The British servicemen pulled off the manoeuvre after a …
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