Royal Mail

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: …

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 …

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: …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

News roundup–Findel, Kitbag, Royal Mail, moreCatalogue e-businessFollowing Ofcom's announcement of a new regulatory framework to safeguard the universal service, Royal Mail confirmed that from 30th April, the price for a first class stamp for a standard letter will rise from 46p to 60p. The price for a second class …and …

Residents and traders report Brighton post problemsThe ArgusResidents and traders have been contacting The Argus to complain about the service they are receiving from Royal Mail. It comes after we revealed that hundreds of parcels are lying dumped in a sorting office in North Road, Brighton, because postmen say …and …