Royal Mail

Royal mail: Prince's love letters to old flame for saleGlobe and Mail, CanadaBut the California woman is now trying to clear stock and retire from Everything Royal, the antiques company she owns, so she posted them again. Now, the story of her letters has stretched from California to Canada to Clarence …

Royal Mail buy a billion elastic bands because posties discard themGlasgow Daily Record, UKALMOST a billion elastic bands a year have to be bought by Royal Mail because so many are left littering the streets. The number of red bands used to bundle mail has more than doubled this decade, leaving …

Different visions as Harman and Mandelson drift apartguardian.co.uk, UKThese now centre on an issue also involving the word royal – the Royal Mail – which highlights divisions within the Labour family over how to prepare Britain for the world after the recession. Mandelson is challenging the Labour party to accept the …

Mail staff strike in contracts rowThe Press AssociationThe Communication Workers Union accused the Royal Mail of forcing the contracts on staff at the Upper Edmonton delivery office in a "cost-cutting" move it warned would affect mail services in the north of the capital. CWU official Mark Dolan said: "As …Royal …

Balcombe post bus service cancelledMidhurst and Petworth Today, UKA ROYAL Mail post bus between Haywards Heath and Balcombe will cease on April 4 after local authority funding was withdrawn for the service. The post bus runs between the Royal Mail delivery office in Haywards Heath and Balcombe post office and picks …

Scotland Courier Bravery award for TA postieScotland Courier, UKBy Lars Niven IT ISN’T every day a postie is fired on by a deadly Taliban rocket, but Iain MacDonald is no ordinary Royal Mail employee. Mr MacDonald has spent the past 12 years in the Territorial Army and has completed tours of …

AFP Royal mail: Charles's love letters to old flame for saleGlobe and Mail, CanadaBut she is now trying to clear stock and retire from her antiques company, Everything Royal, so she posted them again. Now, the story of her letters has stretched from California to Canada to Clarence House, the official …

Barrie in NeverlandThe Herald, UKI found out that the Royal Mail requires three years for applications to be considered for postage stamps to be issued, so nearly four years ago now I applied to the Royal Mail for a set of stamps for the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir …

SNP Postal Affairs spokesperson Mike Weir MP has seized on remarks at Labour’s Dundee conference by Dave Watson, chair of Scottish Labour, attacking Lord Mandelson’s part-privatisation plans for Royal Mail. According to television news reports Dave Watson said that what Lord Mandelson was pushing though was not in the Labour …

The Scottish Labour Party chairman tells conference delegates that plans to sell 30% of Royal Mail breaks the party’s manifesto pledge. More: continued here