Royal Mail

Thousands more post offices could close despite £900m benefits …Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom –7 minutes agoBy Christopher Hope, Whitehall Editor Some branches will go bust and the Royal Mail cannot find enough sub-postmasters to keep them open, industry regulator … More: continued here

Hell Mail Divided Opinion On Postcomm Post Office DemergingHell Mail, UK –4 hours agoRoyal Mail needs the post office to provide a universal service while the post office remains dependent on Royal Mail for approximately a third of its … More: continued here

POLITICIANS have welcomed a Government decision to cancel a tender to run the Post Office Card Account. The contract for the card account, which was launched in 2003, ends in March 2010, at which point bids from Royal Mail’s rivals, which include WGC-based company Paypoint, were set to be invited. …

Hot Ash burns MailReading Evening Post, UK –5 hours agoBy Ralph Webb Ashley Baynham hit a hat-trick as Westwood United outgunned Royal Mail 5-1 in the Reading Football League Senior Division. … More: continued here

York Christmas postal strike loomingThe Press, York, UK –3 hours agoRoyal Mail delivers 4.1 million items in the YO postcode area on an average week, but this figure rises to 5.5 million in the week before Christmas. …Fears post delays will carry on into ChristmasCambridge Evening Newsall 2 news articles More: continued …

Royal Mail can afford to keep post office open say protestersScotsman, United Kingdom –3 hours agoBy Ian Swanson CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save Oxgangs Post Office claim a pledge from Royal Mail bosses shows there is no need for the branch to shut. … More: continued here

Fears post delays will carry on into ChristmasCambridge Evening News, UK –15 minutes agoRoyal Mail claims the teething problems have now been solved, but sources inside the Henley Road office say the backlog is worsening. … More: continued here

Put an end to post office queues, consumer watchdog tells Royal MailTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom –4 hours ago… found to be giving customers the wrong proof of postage – leaving customers with insufficient proof to claim compensation for lost or redelivered mail. … More: continued here

International Postal Executive Elmar Toime Joins Earth Class Mail…TechWhack (press release), India –5 hours agoEarth Class Mail Corp., the global leader in delivering postal mail via the Internet, announces the appointment of former New Zealand Post and Royal Mail… More: continued here

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