Daily Mail Royal Mail denies claims over delivery officePeterborough TodayROYAL Mail has flatly denied it is closing a sorting office on health and safety grounds, calling the idea “a nonsense”. Chatteris town councillor Chris Howes claims the Royal Mail is shutting the town's delivery office, in Park Street, because it …
Read More »Royal Mail makes progress in professional registration – Engineering Apprentice
Engineering Apprentice Royal Mail makes progress in professional registrationEngineering ApprenticeIn what is said to be a 'landmark' in its company wide engineering professional registration programme, 50 Royal Mail frontline engineers have attained registration as Engineering Technicians (EngTech) , while five managers have been registered as … More: continued here
Read More »New church home for Flintshire village post office – Daily Post North Wales
New church home for Flintshire village post officeDaily Post North WalesIt will be open for three mornings every week and will be run by a sub-postmaster from Flint, Royal Mail chiefs have confirmed. The original post office closed in September 2009 after the original postmaster became ill, and has been …
Read More »Royal Mail Paddington scheme hit by TfL’s Underground expansion demands – Property Week News
Royal Mail Paddington scheme hit by TfL's Underground expansion demandsProperty Week NewsRoyal Mail's plans to develop a 270000 sq ft mixed use scheme next to Paddington train station could be sent back to the drawing board tonight as it failed to make provision for upgrade works to an underground station …
Read More »Postman convicted of racism for scrawling ‘Jock’ on Murray posters – The Independent
Postman convicted of racism for scrawling 'Jock' on Murray postersThe IndependentDarren Swain described himself as the "Scarlet Pimpernel of the Post Office" as he defaced posters at a Royal Mail sorting office in Coventry, boasting: "You'll never catch me." But he did not anticipate the handwriting experts who matched his …
Read More »First floor sorting office closed because it’s ‘too dangerous to let postmen walk up stairs’
Chris Howes (pictured), town councillor for Chatteris in Cambridgeshire was told by Post Office officials they had to ‘de-risk multi-floor working’ when he complained about plans to shut his local sorting office. More: continued here
Read More »Postman who called Andy Murray ‘useless jock’ is convicted of racism – Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk Postman who called Andy Murray 'useless jock' is convicted of racismTelegraph.co.ukHe was caught after Royal Mail investigators installed covert cameras to monitor the area after two of the posters featured "racist slurs". One of the posters referred to Andy Murray as "a useless Jock." Swain, from Radford, Coventry, was …
Read More »Postman with rounds in Chester-le-Street, Gateshead and Peterlee in court – The Northern Echo
Postman with rounds in Chester-le-Street, Gateshead and Peterlee in courtThe Northern EchoRiley, who was based at the Washington Royal Mail sorting office, on Wearside, admitted three charges at Consett Magistrates' Court yesterday. The court heard he had too many letters to deliver and was unable to return them to the …
Read More »Postal deliveries will come later after Royal Mail review – Stoke & Staffordshire
Postal deliveries will come later after Royal Mail reviewStoke & StaffordshireUnder the changes being phased in at Congleton Delivery Office, posties will take on longer routes and have new equipment to carry more and bulkier mail. Royal Mail say 'many customers' will continue to get their mail before lunchtime, …and …
Read More »Postman fined for racial abuse of Andy Murray – Scotsman
Postman fined for racial abuse of Andy MurrayScotsmanHe was caught after Royal Mail investigators installed covert cameras to monitor the area after two of the posters featured "racist slurs". One of the posters referred to Andy Murray as "a useless Jock". Swain was sentenced to 200 hours unpaid work at …
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