Royal Mail

The closure of the Royal Mail sorting office in Shropshire will cost the local economy £3 million, it was claimed today. More: continued here

Bosses at Royal Mail are refusing to deliver post to around 30 homes in Shropshire after one of its workers was allegedly attacked by a dog. More: continued here

The Independent Royal Mail Group posts profit ahead of privatisation plansMotor Transport (blog)Royal Mail Group has turned a loss into a profit in its UK letters and parcels arm as it revealed details behind its strategy to develop into a more parcels-focused business ahead of its planned privatisation. The Group's …

Rise in 'junk mail' expected by Royal MailMarketing WeekThe volume of traditional letters sent during the period declined 9 per cent and Royal Mail CEO Moya Greene says UK households should expect more marketing letters as the firm looks to offset the decline. Royal Mail earned £1.1bn from marketing … …

This is Money Stamp prices could rise again despite Royal Mail's growing profitsThis is MoneyA potential sell-off has been helped by shifting responsibility for Royal Mail's pension fund to the taxpayer. Assets of £28.5billion were transferred to the Government along with £37.6billion of liabilities, which are the cost of pension …

One in two letters delivered by Royal Mail is 'junk' mailTelegraph.co.ukShe said that Royal Mail hopes to increase the amount of marketing mail it delivers as it is a “very important” part of what the company does. The rise in unwanted 'junk' mail comes as the volume of traditional letters …

Royal Mail ’s chief executive Moya Greene yesterday refused to promise customers that prices will not rise again. More: continued here

It’s been lost in the post for a while, but Royal Mail ‘s £4bn privatisation project finally looks like an imminent delivery. Yesterday the group dispatched first-class half-year results to the Government’s doorstep: hitting Britons with stamp price hikes of up to 40 per cent helped Royal Mail to post …

The Independent The Future has arrived by post, and it's full of junkTelegraph.co.ukThe Royal Mail under Moya Greene (who, they say, is paid half a million pounds a year) has launched a department called MarketReach, which encourages junk mail. You can tell that MarketReach is The Future because it does …

BBC News Royal Mail to meet CWU over Bristol staff disputeBBC NewsPostal worker representatives are to meet with Royal Mail over a workload dispute at a Bristol sorting office. Thousands of items of mail were left undelivered and union bosses said it was "chaos" at the Mead Street office where …