Royal Mail

Royal Mail says ballot for national strike is ‘totally unjustified’ Senior Royal Mail managers and union leaders were in talks over the company’s modernisation plans today amid growing prospects of national industrial action. The decision by the postal workers’ union to send ballot papers on a countrywide strike to 121,000 …

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal officially opened Oaksey House in Lambourn on Monday. The Injured Jockeys Fund facility has a residential unit for retired riders as well as providing assistance for current ones including a treatment centre, an in-house physiotherapist, a gym and sauna. More: continued here

BBC News Post staff in new wildcat strikeBBC NewsRoyal Mail said a number of staff at its Glasgow Mail Centre had taken "unofficial and unlawful" action. Staff at 12 other delivery offices in the city, …Royal Mail staff not doing this lightlyNews & StarNational Postal Strikes Affect Small BusinessesFresh Business …

National Postal Strikes Affect Small BusinessesFresh Business ThinkingThe Communication Workers Union has sent out ballots to union members and workers at Royal Mail to decide whether or not to press ahead … More: continued here

UK postcode database leakedTechwatchThe information contains details of the postcodes' exact geographical locations, which is something that the Royal Mail considers to be its 'crown jewels' … More: continued here

HOW POST STRIKE COULD ADD £150M TO CREDIT CARD BILLSUK ExpressThe Royal Mail walkouts, which are set to continue into October, could also mean consumers lose out on energy suppliers' discounts for prompt payment. … More: continued here

Dexigner Studio David Hillman Designs Major Olympic Stamps Series for …DexignerRoyal Mail has commissioned Studio David Hillman to design three sets of stamps to be issued in the run up to London 2012 Olympic Games. … More: continued here

Forget Turing, Brown has plenty else to apologise forIndependentI have always been a supporter of Royal Mail, but I am beginning to doubt whether it will survive the current industrial dispute. At the time of writing, …and more » More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk How to return Royal Mail to its world-leading glory daysTelegraph.co.ukSIR – I was appalled, but not surprised, to read that Royal Mail staff have boasted of their "Spanish practices" on the internet (report, September 13). … More: continued here

Britain's six-day mail deliveries threatened by strikeguardian.co.ukA national postal strike will put six-day-a-week letter deliveries at serious risk, the government's independent adviser on the Royal Mail says today in a …National action could see 3800 staff down toolsSouthern Daily EchoCommunication Workers Union 'failing to engage the public'PRWeek UKall 4 news …