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PR Web (press release) Planning For Christmas Delivery HappinessPR Web (press release)"Then, in 2009, the Royal Mail decided to go on strike causing delivery worries once again. And in 2010 snowpocalypse gripped the country which caused chaos as roads and airports froze to a standstill." This year there are threats …

Postal delivery changes madeThe StarRoyal Mail is making changes to the way it delivers mail in parts of Sheffield. Postmen and women at Halfway Delivery Office who serve the S20 and S21 postcodes are to use new delivery methods and adopt revised delivery routes. … More: continued here

Cambridge News Last post for bikes as mail vans take overCambridge NewsLarger items will be delivered as part of the normal round rather than separately, and Royal Mail says staff using vans are less likely to be injured. Some households will get their post later than at present, but new …

Sydney Morning Herald When Queen Elizabeth threw shoes at Prince PhilipHindustan TimesThe Royal tantrum was played out in front of a stunned Australian camera crew who had been waiting for the Queen and Prince Philip to emerge from a chalet in the Yarra mountain range of Victoria in 1954, according …

TNT Post calls for fair competition in UK postal marketPost and ParcelIn particular, the Dutch-owned postal operator wants to see an end to Royal Mail's exemption on VAT for business mail services. It says concerns about the danger of more competition on Royal Mail's universal service obligation are unfounded – …

Plans to privatise Royal Mail could put at risk an important record of thousands of people’s working lives There’s a photograph of my grandfather taken when he was 14 years old, not long after the end of the first world war. He is dressed in the slim-fitting uniform of a …

AM critical of Royal Mail statsSouth Wales ArgusBLAENAU Gwent Assembly Member Alun Davies said he was disappointed at the latest figures announced by the Royal Mail which shows the targets for delivering first and second class post have been missed for the three month period to early June. … More: …

Sydney Morning Herald A right royal tantrumSydney Morning HeraldThe book, Our Queen, is being serialised in the Daily Mail in London and is due to be published on October 6. The Queen and Prince Philip start a 10-day visit to Australia on October 19. It tells of a perfectionistic woman, …

Lancashire Evening Post Royal Mail probe after passports are 'stolen'Lancashire Evening PostA Royal Mail worker has quit and an investigation has been launched amid claims valuable parcels have been stolen from the post. Bosses have received complaints that items sent by the Special Delivery tracker service in Preston failed to …

Recruiter Royal Mail hits back over in-house agencyRecruiterRoyal Mail has hit back against union claims that it has deliberately set up its own recruitment agency to “get around” the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR). Earlier this week, The Daily Mirror reported the Communication Workers Union's slamming Royal … More: continued here