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Royal Mail to simplify consumer parcel services from April 2013Post and ParcelThe streamlined parcels portfolio comes as part of Royal Mail's efforts to update its services as it faces more demand for shipping parcels, and less demand for delivering letters. Parcels now account for 47% of the Group's revenue, with …

News roundup–Mulberry, Royal Mail, Hamleys, moreCatalogue e-businessThe Communications Workers Union is balloting its Royal Mail members in the New Year with the intention of boycotting competitors' mail. The plan is not to deliver any mail sent via a company other than Royal Mail. The union is concerned that unfair … …

BBC News Voter registration: Data checks 'accurate as ID cards'BBC NewsOfficials are being allowed to trawl databases including the Royal Mail and the Student Loans Company to track down missing voters in a new trial. Data matching could be used to fill in gaps in the electoral register ahead of …

Professional Pensions Royal Mail Pension Plan asset transfer cuts deficit by £28bnProfessional PensionsThe transfer and sale of assets from the Royal Mail Pension Plan to HM Treasury has reduced the deficit by £28bn, the Chancellor has revealed. However, in his autumn statement, the Chancellor said the move would add to …

ROYAL Mail is running a scheme to enable customers in receipt of Pension Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefit and Unemployability Supplement to purchase first and second class stamps at 2011 prices during the run-up to Christmas. More: continued here

The Guardian (blog) Royal Mail staff are trying to save the universal postal serviceThe Guardian (blog)As the article says: "Royal Mail has lost business to the likes of TNT Post and UK Mail over the past seven years. Currently, half of all letters are handled by a rival company, with …

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Royal Mail to shut five delivery offices across countyEssex EnquirerThese machines electronically “read” the addresses on letters and sort them into the order in which they will be delivered by Royal Mail's postmen and women. They can sort mail at speeds of up to 45,000 items per hour, and significantly …

Shields Gazette Stiff-upper-lip posties deliver £800 for charityShields GazetteSteven Carr, delivery manager at the Royal Mail in South Shields, said: “In case any Gazette readers were concerned about the increase in the number of postmen with facial hair, this was part of Movember, with the team at South Shields raising …

The Independent Postmen threaten to ditch half of their deliveries in bid to protect Royal…Daily MailSince 2005, Royal Mail has rapidly lost its key business customers, according to data published last month by postal regulator Ofcom. Just 5.2 per cent of all letters were handled by a rival in 2005. …