Royal Mail

Credit crunch brings 'end of era'ePolitix, UK"I've been troubled to find the credit crunch being invoked as a kind of trump card in any debate about markets – especially any debate about the role of the market in delivering public services like the Royal Mail, which is batty. … More: continued …

Workers rally round in Royal Mail battleThis Is Hampshire.net, UKBy Matt Smith » POSTAL workers held a rally in Southampton demanding the Government abandon its plan to sell a stake in Royal Mail. About 80 members of the Communication and Workers Union and other supporters marched through the city urging shoppers …

Royal Mail posties refuse to deliver BNP door-dropsBrand Republic, UKby Noelle McElhatton, Marketing Direct 18-May-09, 09:20 LONDON – Royal Mail workers in the West Country have vowed not to deliver British National Party election door-drops because they object to them as "right-wing rubbish". The leaflets promote the … More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Royal Mail delivers profits as postbag shrinksTelegraph.co.uk, United KingdomRoyal Mail's painful cost-cutting programme – which includes thousands of job losses – allowed the business to post an annual profit in all of its divisions for the first time in two decades. By Katherine Griffiths The better-than-expected results may … More: …

Royal Mail profit soars as postbag shrinksTimes Online, UKProfits at Royal Mail doubled to £321 million last year despite a continued fall in the number of letters being posted, in results likely to be seized on by unions attempting to stop Government plans to sell a stake in the group. … …

BBC News Royal Mail profits almost doubleBBC News, UKRoyal Mail has seen its annual profits almost double, as all four parts of the business went into the black for the first time in 20 years. The state-owned firm made a group-wide operating profit of £321m in the year to 31 March, …

Profit alone isn't enough for Royal MailTimes Online, UKAnd Adam Crozier, Royal Mail Group's chief executive, had some rather more significant milestones to celebrate when he announced that all four of its businesses, including letters and the Post Office, were in the black for the first time in two decades … …

Mandelson defends Royal Mail privatisationguardian.co.uk, UKLord Mandelson was locked in a verbal battle with his critics tonight over the wisdom of privatisating the Royal Mail, after the state-owned operator reported a doubling of annual profits to £321m. The business secretary said Royal Mail's headline … More: continued here

Royal Mail faces threat of strikesFinancial Times, UKBy Jean Eaglesham and Brian Groom Royal Mail faces the threat of strikes over cost-cutting, overshadowing the postal operator's announcement yesterday of a near-doubling of annual profits. The Communication Workers Union is to announce a strike ballot … More: continued here

Royal Mail sale row grows as profits doubleTimes Online, UKUnions seized on bumper profits at Royal Mail to argue that a doubling of profit, despite a continued fall in the number of letters being posted, should render controversial government plans to part privatise the company obsolete. … More: continued here