Hundreds of people from across the Midlands are set to join with trade unionists on Saturday as part of a fight for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent. The protest is in response to a threat by Royal Mail to close the customer service centre in the city.
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Royal Mail pays compensation to a woman whose camcorder was taken away as rubbish after being left in a bin by a postman. More: continued here
Destructive union militancy tends to be as much the fault of bad management and poor public policy as monopoly enterprise and labour protectionism, so personally, I’ve never been inclined to blame the bolshy posties for the disaster zone that was the Royal Mail. More: continued here
Stockton postman spared prison for mail theftGazette LiveRoyal Mail worker Christopher Robinson, from Stockton, stole or delayed the delivery of more than 400 items between 2005 and this year, Teesside Crown Court … More: continued here
Insider Media Royal Mail fined £50k for Kent incidentInsider MediaThe Royal Mail Group has been fined £50,000 after a worker's foot was run over by a reach truck in a bunding warehouse in Kent. The incident happened at Royal Mail's bundling centre in Rochester, where a worker stepped out into an isle and another … More:…
The Guardian Royal Mail workers at Mount Pleasant split over merits of privatisationThe GuardianRoyal Mail staff leaving the company's vast Mount Pleasant complex in central London showed a split in attitudes towards planned privatisation: rank-and-file staff vehemently opposed; management warily in favour. Colin – all those spoken to preferred … More: continued here
Telegraph.co.uk 'Don't stamp out rare plants'Peterborough Today, UKBy Tara Dundon A PLANT expert from Peterborough has put her botanical skills to good use to help produce the Royal Mail's latest batch of commemorative stamps. With more than 450 species of wild plants currently facing national extinction, Royal Mail…Stamp collection celebrates 250th anniversary of Kew GardensTelegraph.co.ukLondon News:…