Royal Mail

Workers promise mail axe fightShropshire Star, UKAngry staff at Ellesmere's Royal Mail delivery office have vowed to fight plans to close the centre. The pledge came at a meeting with Communications Workers Union representative Pete Kelly yesterday where members at the Ellesmere office said they … More: continued here

Royal Mail signs advertisers to green DM servicemad.co.uk, UKStandard Life and Lloyds Banking Group's Black Horse Personal Finance brand have signed up as the first advertisers to use Royal Mail's new environmentally friendly direct mail service, Sustainable Mail. The direct mail campaigns will launch in May, … More: continued here

Plea to delay Royal Mail saleFinancial Times, UKBy Jim Pickard Lord Mandelson was urged to delay his plans for a part-privatisation of the Royal Mail after a Labour group claimed that it would be an error to sell the stake at the bottom of the market. Compass, which is backed by …

Northern Mail is poised to deliver new postal serviceJournal Live, UKCramlington-based Northern Mail is taking on Royal Mail with its regionally-focused service, the first of its kind in the North of England. And it is offering savings of up to four pence for every letter delivered. The launch comes off the …

LAST STOP FOR GLENS POST BUS SERVICEKirriemuir Today, UKRoyal Mail has confirmed that the Clova post bus service, which began in the mid-seventies, is to be withdrawn a week on Friday. A Royal Mail spokeswoman said: "I can confirm that the Kirriemuir-Glen Clova post bus route is to cease operation by …

Today's News Northern Mail is poised to deliverJournal Live, UKCramlington-based Northern Mail is taking on Royal Mail with its regionally-focused service, the first of its kind in the North of England. And it is offering savings of up to four pence for every letter delivered. The launch comes off the back …

MP blasts own party over mailLancashire Evening Post, UKBy Chris Visser A Lancashire MP battling to save the Royal Mail has blasted her own party – after Labour chose a cheaper rival for a mass rallying call. Labour has used Dutch firm TNT to post pro-Labour material to 800000 homes. … …

A Tough Year For European Postal OperatorsHell Mail, UKThe timetable is there, but there is far less scope for operators to consider risky ventures now, particularly when the decline in stamped mail still hasn't bottomed out yet. The partial sale of Royal Mail in the UK could not be more badly-timed …

Brown under pressure to ditch Royal Mail planIndependent, UKGordon Brown faces growing pressure from mutinous Labour backbenchers to ditch or delay moves to partly privatise Royal Mail. Party whips have warned the Prime Minister, who is already dealing with the "smeargate" scandal, that the plans have stretched … More: continued here

Taxpayers will lose hundreds of millions of pounds if the government presses ahead with its plan to part-privatise Royal Mail, ministers have been warned. More: continued here