Royal Mail

The Royal Mail has doubled its profits to £321m – but its pension black hole has deepened to a huge £6.8bn. More: continued here

Profit doubled at Royal Mail last year despite a drop in mail volumes as all four of its businesses reported a full-year profit for the first time in two decades. More: continued here

Daily Mail Royal Mail pension deficit widensReutersLONDON (Reuters) – Royal Mail posted a doubling of full-year operating profit with each of its four units contributing for the first time in two decades, and said its pension fund deficit had also doubled. Royal Mail , which runs mail, parcel delivery …Royal …

Royal Mail doubles profitsFinancial Times, UKBy Jean Eaglesham, Chief Political Correspondent Gordon Brown came under increased pressure on Thursday to abandon contentious plans to part-privatise Royal Mail, after the postal operator announced a near-doubling in its annual profits. … More: continued here

Striking Dunfermline posties' fury after managers flown in as coverDunferline Press, UKby Dunfermline Press Reporter STRIKING Dunfermline postal workers are furious after Royal Mail splashed the cash to bring in more than 80 managers from all across the country to cover their jobs. More than 100 postal workers went on strike …

Mail chiefs have learned nothingThe Bolton News, UKADAM Crozier, chief executive of Royal Mail, has been paid in excess of £2 million a year by taxpayers in wages, bonuses and a gold-plated pension. Crozier's CV of advertising salesman and chief executive of the Football Association hardly qualified … More: continued here

Postie BNP leaflet rowThe Star, UK"Bearing in mind large areas of S5, like Firth Park, have a large Asian and other ethnic minority population, I find it disgusting that Royal Mail would allow this to happen. "I myself will be refusing to deliver the leaflets and, like other members of … …

Lord Mandelson opening remarks: postal services bill report stageMedia Newswire (press release), NYHooper found a Royal Mail which was critical to our country but which was labouring under several huge burdens, including the decline in the number of items sent through the post due to the shift to new technologies and …

Royal Mail sell-off bid to go aheadThe Press AssociationThe Government is pressing ahead with its controversial plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail in the face of opposition from Labour MPs and unions, pledging to use money from the sell-off to modernise the business. Ministers said moves to attract a … …

I Want Your Job: PostmanIndependent, UKHe won the National Bravery Award at the Royal Mail's 1st Class People awards. Being a postman is a public service. It involves working in the delivery office, sorting mail into general and individual sections for each postman to collect. … More: continued here