Postal Services BillPolitics.co.uk, UKMain purpose of the bill: "To ensure a healthy future for the Universal Postal Service, Royal Mail and the wider postal services sector in the UK by enabling Royal Mail to modernise through strategic partnership, removing the burden of Royal Mail's… More: continued here
Read More »Mail crisis averted as post workers call off wildcat strike – Peterborough Today
Mail crisis averted as post workers call off wildcat strikePeterborough Today, UKThe Royal Mail delivery drivers arrived in the morning to form the line and managed to collar many more staff who arrived for their day shifts, refusing to cross the line. Royal Mail bosses feared the worst, as 131 out …
Read More »Bulk mailers get together as Royal Mail's big hike looms – Guernsey Press and Star
Guernsey Press and Star Bulk mailers get together as Royal Mail's big hike loomsGuernsey Press and Star, UKBy Thom Ogier EXPORTERS met yesterday to discuss how to cope with the 40% increase Guernsey Post said Royal Mail had forced on it. Flower exporters expect to be badly affected as parcels will …
Read More »Royal Mail sell-off plan shaken by profits – Independent
Metro Royal Mail sell-off plan shaken by profitsIndependent, UKBy Sarah Arnott Royal Mail reported annual profits doubled to £321m yesterday, providing grist to the mill of opponents to the Government's plan to part-privatise the group. Despite the recession, and a 5.5 per cent fall in the number of letters being …Royal …
Read More »Unrest grows over treatment of Royal Mail IT workers (Computing.co.uk)
Angelica Mari, Computing , Thursday 21 May 2009 at 06:45:00 An IT department shake-up that has caused workers to suffer months of job insecurity is souring relations between managers and staff, and threatening to undermine the group’s modernisation plans Royal Mail’s prolonged attempt to reorganise its IT department is sapping …
Read More »Peter Mandelson backs David Miliband to stay as foreign secretary – guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk Peter Mandelson backs David Miliband to stay as foreign secretaryguardian.co.uk, UKThe rumour was dismissed by Mandelson's office as an attempt to undermine the government's efforts to part privatise the Royal Mail. Shifting Mandelson would allow a new face to be introduced at the business and enterprise department that could review …
Read More »Unrest grows over treatment of Royal Mail IT workers (VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Royal Mails prolonged attempt to reorganise its IT department is sapping morale and casting a pall over its modernisation programme, according to affected employees. More: continued here
Read More »Royal Mail confrontation a step closer (Politics.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The postal services bill cleared the Lords last night –and is now on the way to the Commons where a major backbench rebellion could lie in wait. More: continued here
Read More »Royal Mail hopes posted on derelict warehouse (Reading Evening Post)
Reading’s post could soon come via a derelict warehouse in Whitley. More: continued here
Read More »Royal Challengers beat Deccan Chargers by 12 runs (Express India)
Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Deccan Chargers by 12 runs in their last league encounter of the IPL. More: continued here
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