Royal Mail

• Ministers promise to wait for bidders to raise offers • Brown told delay is price of many MPs’ support The government’s plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail are to be put on hold pending an increase in the price bidders are willing are to pay, ministerial sources said last …

POSTAL workers’ leaders offered the Royal Mail a three-month moratorium on industrial action yesterday in an attempt to reach a deal on modernisation and avoid a fresh wav More: continued here

Tim Webb: Brown relaunch: Going ahead with privatisation would alienate Labour’s left wing. We need a plan B for Royal Mail – and fast More: continued here

The partial privatisation of the Royal Mail could be put on hold despite Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s vows to press ahead with plans for the mail operator. More: continued here

• Threat to call in EC over £10bn pension subsidy • Summer of strife expected for firm ‘on its last legs’ Royal Mail’s rivals will appeal to competition authorities in Brussels if the government bows to demands from unions and rebel MPs to plug its estimated £10bn pension deficit without …

The part privatisation of the Royal Mail is to be put on hold by the government in an attempt to placate backbench anger against Gordon Brown. More: continued here

The government may be hoping to lose its plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail in the post. More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Hermes launches consumer parcel delivery serviceTelegraph.co.uk, United KingdomThe Royal Mail traces its history back to 1516, has run a public mail service for 374 years and delivers 84 million items every working day. It has also operated a separate parcel delivery service since 1883, but Britain's parcel delivery industry has …

Telegraph.co.uk Royal Mail: ditch the privatisation planguardian.co.uk, UKWe need a plan B for Royal Mail– and fast Senior Labour figures privately admit that the government's controversial plan to privatise Royal Mail is doomed. Gordon Brown cannot afford to alienate the left wing of the party by going ahead with the sale …

Ministers have been accused of spin over Royal Mail privatisation plans after the Government insisted a sell off has only been “delayed” due to the economic crisis. More: continued here