Reporting a $1.3 billion loss for 2022-2023 on Thursday, International Distributions Services said the poor performance was due to industrial action by postal workers in its Royal Mail division and a failure to boost productivity. File photo by Andy Rain/EPA-EFE May 18 (UPI) — The parent company of Britain’s Royal …
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Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times, Royal Mail has suffered a full-year loss of more than £1 billion, leaving it trading at a loss as it recovers from the impacts of industrial action. A 94-page document (pdf) by Royal Mail’s owner International Distributions Services (IDS), reported that the …
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ROYAL MAIL has swung to a £1billion loss and said it will take two more years to make a headline profit as it wrestles with modernising its postal service. The business, clunkily rebranded to International Distributions Services, said it was dragged down by a £539million writedown of its value, and …
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