Worker scarred by cancer wins £7k payout after insult from colleagueStoke & StaffordshireKeith Deaville, above, suffered daily taunts from a work-mate at Etruria's Royal Mail call centre over a plastic mask he wore following surgery. The 54-year-old's torment had started shortly after he returned to work in July 2009 following a second …and more » More:…
Royal Mail recruitment row as bosses set up their own temp agencyMirror.co.ukROYAL Mail has sparked outrage by secretly setting up its own recruitment agency to fill thousands of temporary jobs. Unions fear the move is a “devious ploy” to save money and get around new … More: continued here
POSTMAN QUITS OVER CLAIM HE HOARDED MAIL FOR YEARSExpress.co.ukA POSTMAN was caught with as many as 10000 undelivered letters and packages in his house, according to Royal Mail investigators. David McLean is alleged to have kept bundles of letters, cards and parcels in his home in … More: continued here
shropshirestar.com Market Drayton's post 'piling up after round changes'shropshirestar.comA backlog of undelivered post is piling up in Market Drayton following a shake-up of rounds by Royal Mail, a postal worked claimed today. The worker, who asked not to be named, said delivery staff had been bombarded with questions from fed-up residents … More: continued here
The Guardian Under threat: 400 years of social historyThe GuardianPacked into two and a half miles of shelving in an underground former boiler room at the Royal Mail's Mount Pleasant sorting office in Clerkenwell are records relating to more than 400 years of postal communications. It is an extraordinary resource, … More: continued here
A backlog of undelivered post is piling up in Market Drayton following a shake-up of rounds by Royal Mail, a postal worked claimed today. More: continued here
Royal Mail suspends plan to add “Delivered by” label to mailPost and ParcelRoyal Mail has confirmed it will not be implementing its plans to splash “Delivered by Royal Mail” logos on all machine-sort mail from this month. It won't decide on its course of action until early November. The company faced a major backlash from…
Royal Mail admits it can't deliver every day in OrpingtonNews ShopperMr Dix, minister at The Oak Community Church in St Paul's Cray, raised the issue with Royal Mail, who replied admitting they couldn't deliver every day. The letter said: "Since the implementation of the modernisation review we have not always been able …and more » More:…
Daily Mail To boulder-ly go: Royal Navy shows off flying skills with dangerous landing on …Daily MailBy Daily Mail Reporter A Royal Navy crew showed off their exceptional flying skills by carefully landing a Lynx helicopter on a perilous, sloping boulder. The British servicemen pulled off the manoeuvre after a flight over Table Mountain, in…
Birmingham Royal Ballet champions the cityBirmingham MailDANCERS and staff from Birmingham Royal Ballet are flag-waving for the city with a new publicity campaign. Featuring pictures of the company shot all over the city, the campaign is aiming to champion a positive view of … More: continued here