Moonpig’s CEO and CFO have benefited from a multimillion pound bonanza payday thanks to the performance of the group since its flotation in 2021. The Moonpig Group report and accounts just filed for the financial year ended 30 April 2023 reveals that CEO Nickyl Raithatha’s total remuneration increased more …
Read More »Wish you were here: Some travel traditions are quickly and quietly fading away
And that, said the Trinity College history professor, is indisputably a loss. “I don’t think the collected e-mails of today are going to be the same kind of artifact,” Gordon said wryly. Technology and changing tastes have also speeded the demise of picture postcards, paper maps, traveler’s checks, phrasebooks, and …
Read More »UPS inaugurates expansion of its vital Paris hub
UPS announces a €46 million investment in its Paris-Évry site, which houses UPS’s biggest hub in France, increasing sorting capacity from 20,000 packages per hour to a total of 44,000 to meet growing customer demand. The building expansion adds 25 additional loading doors and 11 unloading doors to increase parcel …
Read More »Six rushed to hospital after ‘schoolboys crash Lamborghini rented for prom into Royal Mail van’ in East London
Six people were rushed to hospital after schoolboys reportedly crashed a £187,000 Lamborghini into a Royal Mail van in East London. Footage seen by MyLondon shows the terrifying moment the blue Lambo Urus ploughed into the back of the postal company van, spraying carbon fibre and metal across Royal Dock …
Read More »Royal Mail (IDS) Shares Have Risen 26% in a Month. What’s Next?
The Royal Mail share price, also known as International Distributions Services PLC (LON: IDS), has risen 25.6% in the past month as investor sentiment towards the company improved. The biggest part of the month-long rally was over the last few days after the company and the CWU reached a pay …
Read More »Gloucester residents endure postal delays as civic chiefs are ‘ignored’ by Royal Mail
There are concerns over delays to post deliveries in Gloucester and civic chiefs say they are being ignored by Royal Mail. Residents in Abbeydale have been reporting problems with postal deliveries for several months with some people not having any post delivered for days. Some have had late hospital appointment …
Read More »Cumbrian posties end industrial action and take pay deal
Members of the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) have taken large scale strike action over the past 12 months with industrial action in December causing widespread disruption to the postal service over the Christmas period – traditionally its buisiest time. Royal Mail said that the three-year agreement includes a 10 per …
Read More »Beckton crash: Six injured after collision involving £190k Lamborghini Urus and Royal Mail van | UK News
Six people have been injured after a Lamborghini was involved in a crash with a Royal Mail van in east London. Witnesses captured the incident on video, showing the moment the cars collided and the aftermath of the smash in Beckton. Both the blue supercar, with an estimated cost of …
Read More »Zara Sizes Up Prologis Midlands Mega-Hub
Spanish retail giant Zara is in talks to lease Prologis’s 628,943-square-foot Prologis RFI DIRFT DC628 development in Northampton in the East Midlands, CoStar News can reveal. The distribution facility sits at the heart of the UK’s road and rail network as part of phase three of Prologis’s giant DIRFT logistics …
Read More »New stamps issued featuring birds, mammals, insects and fish
The 10 stamps feature the beaver, Atlantic salmon, kingfisher, beautiful demoiselle, water vole, grey wagtail, common mayfly, otter, brown trout and dipper. Royal Mail worked with Professor of Ecology at Cardiff University Steve Ormerod on the stamp issue. The beaver is one of the creatures featured in a set of …
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