Royal Mail

Mail chiefs have learned nothingThe Bolton News, UKADAM Crozier, chief executive of Royal Mail, has been paid in excess of £2 million a year by taxpayers in wages, bonuses and a gold-plated pension. Crozier's CV of advertising salesman and chief executive of the Football Association hardly qualified … More: continued here

Postie BNP leaflet rowThe Star, UK"Bearing in mind large areas of S5, like Firth Park, have a large Asian and other ethnic minority population, I find it disgusting that Royal Mail would allow this to happen. "I myself will be refusing to deliver the leaflets and, like other members of … …

Lord Mandelson opening remarks: postal services bill report stageMedia Newswire (press release), NYHooper found a Royal Mail which was critical to our country but which was labouring under several huge burdens, including the decline in the number of items sent through the post due to the shift to new technologies and …

Royal Mail sell-off bid to go aheadThe Press AssociationThe Government is pressing ahead with its controversial plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail in the face of opposition from Labour MPs and unions, pledging to use money from the sell-off to modernise the business. Ministers said moves to attract a … …

I Want Your Job: PostmanIndependent, UKHe won the National Bravery Award at the Royal Mail's 1st Class People awards. Being a postman is a public service. It involves working in the delivery office, sorting mail into general and individual sections for each postman to collect. … More: continued here

Less Royal Mail, more 'Snail Mail'The Bolton News, UKI AM very dissatisfied with the response I received when contacting the Royal Mail regarding delivery of a birthday card I received four days after it was posted — three days late for my birthday. The card was posted in one BL area …

The Business: Privatising the postguardian.co.uk, UKThe panel discuss plans to partially privatise the Royal Mail. And, with AGM season looming, why are the shareholders revolting? With Aditya Chakrabortty, Deborah Hargreaves, Larry Elliott and Julia Finch On this week's The Business podcast, … More: continued here

Names in the NewsCalifornia Chronicle, CAMasters said the cards that the queen annually sends to folks who live beyond 100 picture the monarch in the same yellow dress each year. "I think either a blue one or white one would be nice," Masters tells her local paper, the Oxford Mail. … …

Politics.co.uk Tories bully Mandelson over Royal MailPolitics.co.uk, UKBy politics.co.uk staff The Tories will remove their support for the government on partial privatisation of the Royal Mail if it offers concessions to Labour backbenchers, the party has warned. Lord Hunt of Wirral, shadow business minister, … More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Brown will back down over Royal Mail privatisation, predicts …guardian.co.uk, UKGordon Brown will be forced to back down over plans for the partial privatisation of Royal Mail, a Labour MP claimed today. John Grogan, one of the backbenchers leading the campaign against the government's proposal to sell a minority stake …