Telegraph.co.uk Rural homes are having to wait until it is nearly dark to receive their postTelegraph.co.ukRural households are being forced to wait until dusk to receive their post as Royal Mail seeks to cut costs. By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent Under plans being rolled out across the UK, people living in the countryside are…
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The Construction Index Wates makes progress for Royal MailThe Construction IndexContractor Wates reports that it is on schedule with its involvement with the Royal Mail's£71m modernisation programme in Yorkshire and the northeast. The redevelopment of Leeds Mail Centre in Stourton is 20 weeks into the 45-week build programme. … More: continued here
Sunderland Echo Sunderland call centres ready for footy challengeSunderland EchoIan Lanaghan (left) of EDF, Doxford Park and David Dodds of neighbours Royal Mail who have organised a charity football match between the firms in aid of Macmillan. CALL centre workers are going head to head in a charity football match. … More: continued here
Royal Mail pledge to improve Dundee service welcomedParcel2Go.comThe chief executive of Dundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce has welcomed Royal Mail's decision to make 30 additional vans available in the region to help keep Christmas post moving. Speaking to The Courier newspaper, Alan Mitchell applauded the … More: continued here
STV Local Volunteers needed to monitor new Royal Mail initiativeSTV LocalRoyal Mail has chosen Edinburgh to trial a new initiative making it easier for people who are not at home during the day to receive items requiring a signature or that are too large to fit through the letterbox. From November 28 they will begin…
Royal Mail delivers enterprise master data managementSearchDataManagement.co.uklThe head of management information at the Royal Mail and his Accenture consultancy colleague see their recent enterprise master data management (MDM) programme as an example of how to marry people and technology to the detriment of neither and the …and more » More: continued here
Wandsworth street left without post because postie "was sick"This is Local LondonDiane Meaney, 63, of Carmicheal Mews, Wandsworth then complained to the Royal Mail head office in Nine Elms who denied there was a problem and promised to send her a letter of explanation. Many other residents in the road have also complained they did…
Academic's cheque takes 31 months to arriveThe Oxford TimesRecent figures from Royal Mail show that 91 per cent of first-class letters in the Oxford postcode area arrive on time. This is in line with the national average, also 91 per cent, but below Royal Mail's full-year target of 93 per cent. …and more » More: continued…
‘Overworked’ postman, who hoarded sacks of letters at home, gets community work sentence A postman who hoarded 30,000 letters and parcels in his house, car and a garage, has been ordered to do 280 hours of unpaid work. Paul Willicott claimed that he did not have enough time to deliver all the mail he was…