Row as tax probe firm is given mail contractGlasgow Daily Record, UKTNT, who are tipped to take over much of the Royal Mail's work under privatisation plans, paid back tens of millions of pounds in unpaid tax after the 2006 revelations. An HMRC source said: "The contract is the largest one …
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GI Solutions Group Extends Print and Communications Solutions for …PR Web (press release), WA… companies to send their post via the internet directly to the Unity production facility in Leicester, where the mail is digitally printed, folded and stuffed into envelopes and then sorted, before being transported 'down stream' to Royal …
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Exhibitions preview: Steve McQueen, Middlesbroughguardian.co.uk, UKTypically the artist proclaims the work unfinished until the Royal Mail agrees to actually issue the stamps. And, apparently, it might just happen. Support the McQueen campaign at artfund.org/queenandcountry. More: continued here
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Postal workers march over sell-offThe Press AssociationPostal workers opposed to the Government's controversial plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail will take their campaign to the constituency of the Postal Affairs Minister. The Communication Workers Union will stage a march and demonstration in …Would the Royal Mail benefit from being partly …
Read More »Royal Mail Packet Product Deregulation Turned Down – Hell Mail
Royal Mail Packet Product Deregulation Turned DownHell Mail, UKRoyal Mail sought to deregulate a number of business packet products and introduce a new pricing structure outside Condition 21 of its licence. Royal Mail considered that competition in relation to these items was sufficiently developed to protect the … More: continued here
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Union targets peers and MPs in Royal Mail fight More: continued here
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Guernsey Post contacts the Mail Preference Service in the UK to see if it can help customers stop unwanted mail. More: continued here
Read More »Shaun Ley's week – BBC News
BBC News Shaun Ley's weekBBC News, UKMr Hayes was hoping that the Lords would block proposals for the transfer of part of the Royal Mail to the private sector. The union argued that these plans contradicted the manifesto on which Labour fought the 2005 general election (with its assurance … More: …
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Probe in missing mail at Blackburn depotBlackburn Citizen, UKThe Lancashire Telegraph has been contacted by five different postal workers, who all alleged that up to £20000 worth of items had gone missing from mail. They said the worker suspended was not a post man or woman. But the Royal Mail declined …
Read More »Grampians' culinary champions – The Australian
Grampians' culinary championsThe Australian, AustraliaJUDGING by its name, I expect the Royal Mail Hotel, beneath Mt Sturgeon in Victoria's southern Grampians, to have a stagecoach stationed in front, or at least a horse rail. Not at all. Although it dates from the 1850s, after a series of facelifts the … More: …
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