Royal Mail seeking greener vehiclesRoad Transport, UKRoyal Mail is looking to its commercial vehicle fleet to help it achieve its goal of reducing total CO2 output by 50% by 2015. Nearly 40% of all Royal Mail's CO2 output, approximately one million tonnes per year, comes from its road transport … More: …
Read More »Fence erected at old Royal Mail site – Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
Fence erected at old Royal Mail siteNorthamptonshire Evening Telegraph, UKRoyal Mail chiefs have erected a security fence around their empty sorting office in Northampton to keep out drunks following pressure from police and residents. Fed-up residents living near the abandoned Barrack Road mail centre have had to put up … More: …
Read More »Royal Mail pension deficit ‘is set to rise’ (The Herald)
The cost to the taxpayer of absorbing the Royal Mail Group’s multi-billion-pound pension deficit is set to rise, Postal Services Minister Pat McFadden has told MPs. More: continued here
Read More »Royal Mail site to offer DM advice – PrintWeek
Media News International Royal Mail site to offer DM advicePrintWeek, UKThe Royal Mail has launched a new online resource aimed at helping marketers get the most out of their direct mail (DM) campaigns. The Mail Media Centre, which is being targeted at the UK’s top 3000 advertisers and 500 key agencies, …
Read More »Royal Mail rejects postbus protests – Ross-Shire Journal
Royal Mail rejects postbus protestsRoss-Shire Journal, UKBy Hector Mackenzie BOSSES at Royal Mail are standing firm over plans to axe loss-making post bus services in Wester Ross — and say if Highland Council is so concerned it should take its own responsibilities as transport authority more seriously. …Battle to save Postbus …
Read More »Schoolgirl rescued from under Royal Mail van – Sunderland Echo
Schoolgirl rescued from under Royal Mail vanSunderland Echo, UKThe 11-year-old became stuck under the front axle of the Royal Mail van after the accident as she was riding her pink bike down Joannah Street, Fulwell. Onlookers informed the girl's mum, who is believed to live in a nearby road, who rushed …
Read More »Postal workers face bike ban – Cambridge Evening News
Cambridge Evening News Postal workers face bike banCambridge Evening News, UKPOSTAL workers in Cambridge – the cycling capital of Britain – could be kicked off their bikes in a Royal Mail drive to save cash. Instead, many deliveries will be made by van, adding traffic to the city's roads, angry union …
Read More »Royal Mail partial privatisation runs into money problems – Tribune
Royal Mail partial privatisation runs into money problemsTribune, UKby Keith Richmond THE Government’s controversial plan to part-privatise Royal Mail has run into another problem – and this time it could prove fatal for the much-criticised idea. It appears that private companies do not have the cash to buy the stake … …
Read More »Royal Mail Does Have A Future – Hell Mail
Shropshire Star Royal Mail Does Have A FutureHell Mail, UKThe UK Government may have come up against a brick wall on its plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail. It had been widely rumoured that Dutch-owned TNT was interested in becoming a strategic partner but with banks unwilling to make loans and …
Read More »Thursday in Westminster – BBC News
BBC News Thursday in WestminsterBBC News, UKBy Peter Mulligan In 'Today in Parliament', David Wilby reports on exchanges revealing that strikes at Royal Mail accounted for 60% of all days lost to industrial action during 2007 in the UK. That fact emerged during Commons questions about the future … More: continued …
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