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Only 11 documents were electronically submitted to the Royal Courts of Justice eWorking system in the second quarter of 2011 – fewer than 0.5% of all files entered on the system. More: continued here

BBC News Royal Mail seeks 18000 Christmas staffBBC NewsThe Royal Mail is looking for tens of thousands of temporary workers to help with deliveries this Christmas. It is looking for 18000 extra staff – 2000 fewer than last year, partly because of a fall in postal volumes. It says temporary …

Royal Mail told: Don't leave my parcels with the neighbourPost and ParcelConsumer Focus, the UK's national consumer watchdog, said yesterday that people were generally “unconvinced and unimpressed” with Royal Mail's plans that would seek to reduce missed deliveries. Royal Mail asked regulator Postcomm a few weeks ago for …Concerns Raised …

Fury at Royal Mail site planReading PostProtestors gathered at the Civic Centre on Wednesday night to object to plans to redevelop the Royal Mail sorting office into a complex including flats and a hotel. Outside the planning meeting, people from the Vastern Road area claimed … More: continued here

Apology over postbox closures in Leicester streetsLeicester MercuryRoyal Mail has apologised to thousands of customers for sealing up 12 postboxes after the keys to open them went missing. The postboxes, in the West End of Leicester, have been out of action since Tuesday, the day after a bunch of collection …

Protestors gathered at the Civic Centre on Wednesday night to object to plans to redevelop the Royal Mail sorting office into a complex including flats and a hotel. More: continued here

Ossie Sheddy Ossie is the editor and publisher of The Drumheller Mail and has been with the paper for over 40 years. More: continued here

Southport postwoman 'forced to work' despite hospital surgerySouthport VisiterA SOUTHPORT postwoman injured herself after being forced to deliver mail days after undergoing invasive surgery, a tribunal heard. Royal Mail employee Pauline McCallion suffered an internal rupture and needed her fallopian tube removing after being …Royal Mail accuses Southport postwoman of …

Richard Harrington MP criticises Watford Royal MailBBC NewsThe Conservative MP said he would press Royal Mail to give compensation to constituents who had not received their post on time. The Communication Workers Union said the problem had been caused by postmen being given larger rounds to complete. …MP Richard Harrington …

Major plan for Royal Mail site approvedReading ChronicleMAJOR plans to transform the former Royal Mail sorting office site in Reading into flats, offices, shops and a hotel were approved last night. The Vastern Road site is one of a number of locations around Reading Station earmarked for large-scale … More: …