Royal Mail

Barking and Dagenham Post Royal Mail to Consult on Closure of London Branches (Update1)Bloomberg –Feb 19, 200819 (Bloomberg) — Royal Mail Group Plc, the UK's state-owned postal service, started a six-week consultation period on the planned closure of 169 post …Post offices disappear from LondonThis is Money"We need more Post Offices"Harrow …

BBC News Bomb found at mail sorting officeBBC News, UK –3 minutes agoA bomb has been found at the Royal Mail's sorting office in Mallusk, County Antrim. The building was evacuated shortly after the device, which was described … More: continued here

All three post offices in the Houses of Parliament are to escape the mass cull of London branches, the Standard can reveal. The Royal Mail has provoked outrage after announcing plans to axe 169 post offices in the City. More: continued here

Demonstration call after new threat to post offices is revealedHampstead and Highgate Express, UK –49 minutes agoThank goodness a Royal Mail insider has leaked that at least 11 post offices are earmarked for the chop in Camden and Barnet (Named: secret list of post … More: continued here

FINDING DUNKELD'S COUNTRY SECRETSSydney Star Observer, Australia –1 minute agoWhen it is the Royal Mail Hotel complex in the verdant hills of Western Victoria’s Grampians region. And of what value is a country pub to Australia’s queer … More: continued here

Walkout post workers scoop lotto winOxford Mail, UK –2 minutes agoThe lucky 14 – 13 men and a woman who all work as Royal Mail drivers – have already planned how to spend their cash. Syndicate organiser Geoffrey Townsend, … More: continued here

Royal Mail defends the printed statementThewisemarketer.com (subscription), UK –3 hours agoAccording to Abi Wood, head of financial sector marketing at Royal Mail, "Many companies are actively encouraging customers to deal with them online, … More: continued here

MAIL LOST AS ARSONISTS TARGET POST-BOXES IN PLYMPTONPlymouth Evening Herald, UK –15 hours agoPolice and Royal Mail are appealing for potential witnesses to come forward. He said: "They were at opposite ends of Plympton over a mile apart, … More: continued here

Mayor braced to fight post office closuresFinancial Times, UK –48 minutes ago… programme to slim down the Post Office network with a legal challenge to Royal Mail’s plan to close 169 branches and two crown post offices in London. … More: continued here

Scarlett Johannson and Natalie Portman took part in a sister act in Leicester Square – at the royal premiere of The Other Boleyn Girl. The actresses braved a chilled London evening earlier ahead of the first showing of the period drama, in which Portman plays Henry VIII’s doomed wife Anne …