Globe and Mail The penny drops _ Canada to kill its one-cent coin, calling it a costly nuisanceWashington PostFinance Minister Jim Flaherty was talking about the Canadian penny and why the Royal Canadian Mint will end its production this fall as part of his austerity budget. “The penny is a currency without any currency in…
Scotsman Paul Kelly: Price rises were neededScotsmanRoyal Mail has seen post volumes plummet as we turn to e-mail. Picture: Getty ROYAL Mail is a key part of Scotland's economic and social infrastructure. Our 11100 postmen and women perform a vital and trusted role in every community from Stornoway to …Four Rooms star Jeff makes £250000…
Give us our post office backThis is LeicestershireCampaigners have collected 1200 names on a petition to try to persuade Royal Mail to reopen their neighbourhood post office. Residents and businesses in Stoneygate, Leicester, want the Francis Street branch restored. It was closed in 2008 as part of a … More: continued here
Price of stamps set to rocket under new rulesBexhill ObserverROYAL Mail is to be given the freedom to set its own prices for first-class stamps and other mail, the regulator announced this week. Ofcom said that, subject to the safeguards it was putting in place, Royal Mail will make decisions on the price of ……
Keep Royal Mail delivery office in HeckmondwikeSpenborough GuardianI WAS concerned to read in the Spenborough Guardian that the Heckmondwike Royal Mail Delivery Office could close. If this is the case I hope there will be some public consultation. Not only would we be losing another important local facility, … More: continued here
The Guardian This cynical Royal Mail and Post Office divorce will bring only miseryThe GuardianTomorrow, without any political discussion and through the administrative fiat of a business plan, the Post Office and Royal Mail will be severed from each other. It is a transformation of an important and meaningful public institution into a purely …and…
BBC News Guernsey Post stamp prices increaseBBC NewsA local stamp will rise by 3p to 39p and for mail sent to the UK it will increase by 6p to 53p. Boley Smillie, chief executive, said the move had been forced on them by the challenges facing the business. Issues such as the increase in Royal…
Legal Week Freshfields and Slaughters advise as Royal Mail gets set for privatisationLegal WeekFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May are playing key advisory roles in the ambitious restructuring of Royal Mail as the UK Government prepares to take on the company's multibillion-pound pension deficit ahead of a potential float.DB schemes are fundamentally flawedFT Adviser…
Stamp dutyThe GuardianRob Tresidder Oread Mountaineering Club, Derby • I now take it that since Royal Mail is allowed to increase postal charges and will soon be making a profit (Report, 28 March), there will be no need to sell it off to the private sector. More: continued here
New York Times St. Helena, 'Cursed Rock' of Napoleon's ExileNew York TimesI STOOD on the aft deck of the 128-passenger Royal Mail Ship St. Helena in the gloom of a predawn morning last fall, my eyes riveted to an island that seemed to rise from the scalloped sea, a ruined cathedral of volcanic rock shrouded…