BBC News Protest over Royal Mail sell-offBBC News, UKPostal workers from across the country are due to gather in Wolverhampton to protest against government plans to sell off parts of the Royal Mail. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is staging the demonstration in the Black Country constituency of …Royal Mail‘refuses to meet us’Liverpool EchoPostal workers march…
BBC News Council makes post bus cost claimBBC News, UKAn increase in subsidies requested by Royal Mail to keep remote post buses on the road could have been met, Highland Council has revealed. Royal Mail plans to stop operating five services – two in the far north and three in the west Highlands – in ……
Row as tax probe firm is given mail contractGlasgow Daily Record, UKTNT, who are tipped to take over much of the Royal Mail's work under privatisation plans, paid back tens of millions of pounds in unpaid tax after the 2006 revelations. An HMRC source said: "The contract is the largest one awarded in government for all…
GI Solutions Group Extends Print and Communications Solutions for …PR Web (press release), WA… companies to send their post via the internet directly to the Unity production facility in Leicester, where the mail is digitally printed, folded and stuffed into envelopes and then sorted, before being transported 'down stream' to Royal Mail. … More: continued here
Exhibitions preview: Steve McQueen, Middlesbroughguardian.co.uk, UKTypically the artist proclaims the work unfinished until the Royal Mail agrees to actually issue the stamps. And, apparently, it might just happen. Support the McQueen campaign at artfund.org/queenandcountry. More: continued here
Postal workers march over sell-offThe Press AssociationPostal workers opposed to the Government's controversial plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail will take their campaign to the constituency of the Postal Affairs Minister. The Communication Workers Union will stage a march and demonstration in …Would the Royal Mail benefit from being partly privatised?PrintWeekNorth left off the map…
Royal Mail Packet Product Deregulation Turned DownHell Mail, UKRoyal Mail sought to deregulate a number of business packet products and introduce a new pricing structure outside Condition 21 of its licence. Royal Mail considered that competition in relation to these items was sufficiently developed to protect the … More: continued here
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Guernsey Post contacts the Mail Preference Service in the UK to see if it can help customers stop unwanted mail. More: continued here
BBC News Shaun Ley's weekBBC News, UKMr Hayes was hoping that the Lords would block proposals for the transfer of part of the Royal Mail to the private sector. The union argued that these plans contradicted the manifesto on which Labour fought the 2005 general election (with its assurance … More: continued here