Royal Mail

Royal Mail profit soars as postbag shrinksTimes Online, UKProfits at Royal Mail doubled to £321 million last year despite a continued fall in the number of letters being posted, in results likely to be seized on by unions attempting to stop Government plans to sell a stake in the group. … …

BBC News Royal Mail profits almost doubleBBC News, UKRoyal Mail has seen its annual profits almost double, as all four parts of the business went into the black for the first time in 20 years. The state-owned firm made a group-wide operating profit of £321m in the year to 31 March, …

Profit alone isn't enough for Royal MailTimes Online, UKAnd Adam Crozier, Royal Mail Group's chief executive, had some rather more significant milestones to celebrate when he announced that all four of its businesses, including letters and the Post Office, were in the black for the first time in two decades … …

Mandelson defends Royal Mail privatisationguardian.co.uk, UKLord Mandelson was locked in a verbal battle with his critics tonight over the wisdom of privatisating the Royal Mail, after the state-owned operator reported a doubling of annual profits to £321m. The business secretary said Royal Mail's headline … More: continued here

Royal Mail faces threat of strikesFinancial Times, UKBy Jean Eaglesham and Brian Groom Royal Mail faces the threat of strikes over cost-cutting, overshadowing the postal operator's announcement yesterday of a near-doubling of annual profits. The Communication Workers Union is to announce a strike ballot … More: continued here

Royal Mail sale row grows as profits doubleTimes Online, UKUnions seized on bumper profits at Royal Mail to argue that a doubling of profit, despite a continued fall in the number of letters being posted, should render controversial government plans to part privatise the company obsolete. … More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Don't simply stamp 'Private' on the Royal Mailguardian.co.uk, UKWill Royal Mail be New Labour's political and managerial watershed? There could hardly be a clearer test case of what, if anything, 12 years of bruising encounters with public-sector reform have taught it. No one doubts that the Mail badly needs an …

Telegraph.co.uk Royal Mail doubles profits, prompting calls to stop part-privatisationTelegraph.co.uk, United KingdomRoyal Mail has doubled its profits despite a huge fall in the number of letters being posted, prompting calls to stop part-privatisation of the group. By Myra Butterworth It said profits had risen to £321 million even though the average …

Telegraph.co.uk 'Don't stamp out rare plants'Peterborough Today, UKBy Tara Dundon A PLANT expert from Peterborough has put her botanical skills to good use to help produce the Royal Mail's latest batch of commemorative stamps. With more than 450 species of wild plants currently facing national extinction, Royal Mail…Stamp collection celebrates 250th …

Times Online Lost in translationTimes Online, UKThe fumbling involvement of Royal Mail will guarantee a mysterious delay. I went on a blind date once. No, really. I didn't know what the guy looked like, where he went on his summer holiday in 2003, the colour of his ex-girlfriend's hair or the …