Royal Mail

It’s 4:30 a.m. and Victoria Villalba is awake, BlackBerry in hand, pondering the e-mail she received a few minutes earlier. It’s another desperate plea from a laid-off worker asking to find him work, another e-mail ending with the same three words, “I’ll take anything!” More: continued here

9 DECEMBER 2008 Prince Harry ‘s girlfriend Chelsy Davy has won a prestigious work placement at the Queen ‘s solicitors, Farrer & Co. More: continued here

Mail workers vote to strikeMilton Keynes Today, UK –3 minutes ago… class Christmas mail following failure of long running negotiations over the future of the Royal Mail distribution centre at Dawson Road, Bletchley. … More: continued here

Strike threat to postal servicesBBC News, UK –7 minutes agoThe move is likely to affect deliveries and collections in the TA5, TA6 and TA7 postal areas. No one from Royal Mail was available for comment. More: continued here

Offwell shop is a Post PointMidweek Herald, UK –3 hours agoOffwell Parish Council has paid Royal Mail to continue collecting letters and parcels from the community shop. Collections are once-a-day, five days-a-week. … More: continued here

Britains Royal Mail delivers letter after 89 yearsThaindian.com, Thailand –3 hours agoLondon, December 9 (ANI): An RSVP reached a Dorset guesthouse through Britains Royal Mail 89 years after it had been posted. The letter dated November 29, … More: continued here

Postal service will get worse if jobs move, say MPsStoke & Staffordshire, UK –5 hours agoThe city's three representatives, Mark Fisher, Rob Flello and Joan Walley, have come out in opposition to Royal Mail's plans to move up to 400 jobs from …Postal staff agree to take strike actionCoventry TelegraphOur postal service …

Postie ‘stole festive cards’Reading Evening Post, UK –19 hours agoThe suspected pilfering postie, who worked at the West Reading branch of the Royal Mail’s sorting office in Loverock Road, was arrested on Monday last week. … More: continued here

Dec 8 (Reuters) – Shell International Finance B.V., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, on Monday sold $2.75 billion of 30-year senior notes, according to IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication. More: continued here

MSP Joe FitzPatrick visited his local posties today to give them a boost as they gear up for the busiest time of their year (writes Maura Bowman). More: continued here