Royal Mail

Royal Mail‘refuses to meet us’Liverpool Echo, UKPOSTAL union leaders claim Royal Mail is refusing to consult them on its proposals to shut Liverpool’s Copperas Hill sorting centre. The controversial plan, which was revealed last year, will affect 600 jobs. Union members were today heading to a … More: continued here

Woodley Town stormed three points clear at the top of the Reading Football League after edging out title rivals Royal Mail 3-2. More: continued here

SNP Postal Affairs spokesperson, Mike Weir MP, has expressed bemusement at news HM Revenue & Customs have awarded a £4.5 million-a-year contract to deliver its internal mail to TNT – just a week after it was revealed the company had been forced to hand over tens of millions of pounds …

UK Snail Mail Sees New Electronic CompetitorHell Mail, UKTraditional postal operators such as Royal Mail, face a barrage of competition not just from other postal operators but the growth in Hybrid Mail. Now the UK's first next-day electronic postal service has been develped by Integrated Documents Solutions … More: continued here

Prezza delivers Royal Mail postguardian.co.uk, UKIn his Go Fourth blog this morning, Prezza alerts ministers – and rebel Labour MPs – to the prospect that he may be getting on the warpath again in the controversy over the part-sell-off of the Royal Mail. What he's done is to remind them of …

Woodley deliver Mail blowReading Evening Post, UKBy Ralph Webb Woodley Town stormed three points clear at the top of the Reading Football League after edging out title rivals Royal Mail 3-2. James Pearson, Rob Morley and Nick Edwards hit the goals that kept Town on course for their first-ever league … …

Voice of America Afghanistan Suicide Bombings Kill 12 People, Injure 31 in SouthBloombergThe two belonged to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, according to a statement on the ministry’s Web site. A French soldier was killed on March 14 by rocket fire during an operation to secure a valley held …

Hell Mail You can ride ThomasPeterborough Today, UKFirst, there is a chance to ride behind Thomas and, second, a rare opportunity for children to sort mail in a genuine Royal Mail travelling post office carriage. The letters they have sorted will then be made up into pouches and dropped and collected …

The Wrap: Doctors back Donaldson over alcohol price riseguardian.co.uk, UK… the Mail and other newspapers say. Broadly speaking, doctors appear to back Donaldson. Professor Ian Gilmore, a liver specialist and president of the Royal College of Physicians, said "all the evidence shows that price is one of the most important … …

Blackburn missing mail theft probeLancashire Telegraph, UKThe Lancashire Telegraph has been contacted by five different postal workers, who all alleged that up to £20000 worth of items had gone missing from mail. But the Royal Mail declined to confirm or deny any of the allegations put to it by the Lancashire …