Royal Mail

WALES: Small Businesses Back Calls for Post BankistockAnalyst.com (press release), ORSMALL business leaders in North Wales are backing the idea of a new Post Bank to be set up as part of moves to strengthen the Royal Mail. The proposal to provide more financial services to people and businesses not served …

Who gave Prince William his ‘Harry Potter scar’? Royal reveals friend hit him with golf club More: continued here

Royal Mail is facing competition from TNT Post for its direct marketing delivery service for charities. More: continued here

Shropshire Star Royal Mail set for charity mail-outs clash with TNTMarketing Week, UKRoyal Mail is facing competition from TNT Post for its direct marketing delivery service for charities. Commercial rivals to Royal Mail have been hampered in the past in their efforts to attract charity-based business because only Royal Mail is …

Probe into Royal Mail theft claim in WorkingtonTimes & Star, UKBy Nick Griffiths Crime Reporter An investigation is underway following claims mail has been stolen from Workington’s postal delivery office. Royal Mail today confirmed an inquiry had been launched into a complaint of theft at its base on Derwent Drive … …

Royal Mail Salutes NI Castles4ni.co.uk, UKNorthern Ireland has some of the finest ancient castles in the country and Royal Mail is celebrating this rich heritage with the launch a new series of generic stamp sheets featuring the castles of Northern Ireland, printed on a label alongside a first …MALLUSK MAIL CENTRE …

Shropshire Star Government to blame for pension penuryShropshire Star, UKThe pension fund is £5.9 billion in debt due primarily to the government allowing Royal Mail to cease its contributions to the fund for 17 years – an offer not extended to the workforce. For the last 10 years this government has …

Paul Donovan: Where’s there’s the political will, there’sa way to …Tribune, UKThe injustice is even greater when we remember that Royal Mail bosses took a pension holiday from contributing to the pension fund for 13 years up to 2003. During this period, the Government was receiving increased profits from Royal Mail, …

THE privatisation of the Royal Mint is moving a step closer as the Government seeks to raise cash to fund its multi-billion-pound bank bailout. More: continued here

Royal Mail sell-off fight now at a critical stageSocialistworker.co.uk, UKAround 1000 postal workers demonstrated in Bilston, in the West Midlands, against the privatisation of Royal Mail last Saturday. Lord Mandelson is staking his political future on pushing the measure through (Pic: Socialist Worker) by Charlie Kimber …Campaign against post office threatRedditch …