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SNP Business and Enterprise spokesperson, Mike Weir MP, has expressed dismay at Scottish Labour’s use of a private postal company to deliver party material – at a time when Royal Mail is threatened with privatisation by Labour Business Secretary Lord Mandelson. More: continued here

Hell Mail Who profits?Hell Mail, UK –46 minutes agoDave Ward, the Communication Workers' Union's deputy general secretary, said: "Royal Mail is again giving us mixed messages on its financial health. … More: continued here

Royal Mail has admitted to making profits of more than £900,000 a day even as it was in the process of shutting thousands of post offices. More: continued here

ROYAL MAIL made a profit of £225m in the nine months to Christmas, with all its businesses in the black for the first time in 20 years, it announced yesterday. More: continued here

ROYAL MAIL chiefs yesterday announced they’d made made a profit of £255million. And they revealed that all their businesses are in profit for the first time in almost 20 years. More: continued here

Daily Mail Three rural post offices closed every weekTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom –3 hours agoRoyal Mail has admitted to MPs that England has lost one fifth of its entire rural post office network since 2000. Overall the number of open post offices …One in five post offices in rural England has been closed …

Delivery threat to consultationFree Press, UK –17 minutes agoA spokesman for the Royal Mail said the company is investigating the matter. For now, residents can still have their say by logging onto … More: continued here

Royal Mail posts record profits of £255mTimes Online, UK –17 hours agoRoyal Mail, which has been heavily criticised in Parliament recently for failing to modernise quickly enough, said yesterday that its profits for the nine … More: continued here

Oneindia Royal Mail put their stamp on BurnsAyrshire Post, UK –44 minutes agoROYAL Mail is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns with a special stamp issue. The special miniature sheet contains six stamps, …Robert Burns First Non-Royal With Three Stamp CollectionsOneindiaRobert Burns honoured on stampsAFPBirth of Burns marked …

Does your postman merit a first class award?Midulster Today, UK –4 hours agoThe reminder comes from Royal Mail, who highlight that the closing date for nominations is Friday, January 30. your stories about ‘1st Class’ postmen and … More: continued here