Royal Mail

Royal Mail hopes posted on derelict warehouseReading Evening Post, UKRoyal Mail's soon-to-shut Caversham Road sorting office looks set to be replaced by a delivery centre in a South Reading trading estate. The postal giant has submitted a planning application to Reading Borough Council for the warehouse in Gillette Way. … More: …

Postman stole and sold on parcelsBBC News, UKHe was arrested after Royal Mail bosses became suspicious and mounted a surveillance operation. Stolen mail was found in Backhouse's work van, his private car and at his home. Backhouse told police he had targeted envelopes with the logo of an …Postman jailed for …

Spectator.co.uk Peter Mandelson's local post office set to shut downMirror.co.uk, UKNow sub-postmaster Vimal Shah has called on him to step in after accusing the Royal Mail of using a row over opening hours as a "back door excuse" to wind up his business. But Lord Mandelson has never been seen at …

Telegraph.co.uk MPs' expenses: chaos theory engulfs Gordon Brown as he struggles …Telegraph.co.uk, United KingdomBy Andrew Gimson But few sound quite as disorientated as Gordon Brown, who started Prime Minister's Questions yesterday by declaring that Royal Mail“is losing five million letters a year”. Laughter broke out at this declaration of mind-boggling …Video: …

Politics.co.uk Royal Mail confrontation a step closerPolitics.co.uk, UKThe government is determined to part-privatise the Royal Mail by selling off a stake in the firm to a postal services provider, potentially Dutch firm TNT. Unions have mounted a strong campaign against this proposal, arguing the sale would be the first …Peter Mandelson's …

Unrest grows over treatment of Royal Mail IT workersComputing, UKRoyal Mail's prolonged attempt to reorganise its IT department is sapping morale and casting a pall over its modernisation programme, according to affected employees. To support the group's £1.2bn change agenda unveiled last year, chief information … More: continued here

MANDY POST OFFICE SHUTSMirror.co.uk, UKNow sub-postmaster Vimal Shah has called on him to step in after accusing the Royal Mail of using a row over opening hours as a "back door excuse" to wind up his business. But Lord Mandelson has never been seen at the doomed branch, just minutes away …

Islington Gazette Royal approval for Clerkenwell firm's stamps designIslington Gazette, UKThe 10 new Royal Mail stamps were designed by staff at Studio Dempsey, based in Bowling Green Lane. They feature detailed drawings of endangered plants. More than 450 species of wild plants face national extinction and to highlight this Royal Mail… …

BBC News Sketch: Still divided after all these yearsPolitics.co.uk, UKAs the prime minister made yet another embarrassing mistake, this time about the Royal Mail losing five million letters a year, they yelled with delight. As David Cameron tried to corner Brown into admitting that "he thinks he's going to lose", …Video: …

Postal Services Bill clears LordsMedia Newswire (press release), NY"The Government remains convinced that the huge challenges facing Royal Mail must be addressed by a comprehensive package of reform. Letter volumes are expected to fall by as much as 10% every year as people turn to email and other forms of … …