Royal Mail

Kirkintilloch Today Have you been affected by postal chaos?Kirkintilloch TodayRoyal Mail staff are currently pouring through the stash and will be sending mail out to its rightful owner. Have you been affected? We want to hear from anyone who has received post after a lengthy delay. Perhaps you have finally …

Postal problems sorted, Royal Mail tells Watford MP Richard HarringtonWatford ObserverRoyal Mail bosses assured Watford MP Richard Harrington that the town's postal problems have been “completely rectified” during emergency talks yesterday. The Conservative politician met with managers at the Ascot Road sorting depot … More: continued here

Fenland Today setback in battle to save sorting officeFenland TodayDespite suggestions for alternative sites in the town, if plans go ahead for the Park Street sorting office to close, Royal Mail told the Citizen that so far, none of the suggestions meet its “business needs”. The comment comes in the …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …