I came home to find a mystery parcel on my BED – and then a note from the postman explained it all By Ellen Coughlan For Mailonline Published: 07:05 EST, 7 March 2023 | Updated: 10:45 EST, 7 March 2023 A woman who came home to find a random parcel …
Read More »Labour retreats from pledge to nationalise energy, water and mail if it wins next general election
Labour has abandoned plans to nationalise key industries if it wins the next election, the shadow Chancellor has confirmed. Rachel Reeves suggested that the railways were the only sector in line to be taken over by the state even as she pushes for action to bring industrial supply chains back …
Read More »Revitalising CWU education as residential training returns
Union Matters, Education, Equalities March 7 2023 ‘First-class’ Leicestershire facility gets the thumbs up from leaders, learning reps and activists… The full range of courses are now available for our reps at a new facility in a small village near Loughborough and CWU News was invited up last week, …
Read More »Royal Mail is pricing the letter and itself out of existence
The snail mail industry has experienced a tough couple of decades. And the company is hardly rolling in money. It is expected to report a full-year loss of between £350m and £450m this year, and the share price has fallen by 27pc over the last 12 months. It faces plenty …
Read More »What strikes are coming up across the UK?
The UK is continuing to wade through a barrage of strikes across a range of industries that have continued into 2023.Nurses, teachers, civil servants, rail workers, university staff, physiotherapists, Royal Mail workers, junior doctors, and ambulance staff are striking over pay and conditions.This video breaks down when exactly the industrial …
Read More »Victorian-style development planned to replace Tenby sorting office – The Pembrokeshire Herald
PLANS to demolish and replace Tenby’s “austere modernist” former Royal Mail sorting office with a larger 19th century-style development are expected to get the go-ahead. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park planners, meeting on Wednesday, are recommended to back an application for the demolition of the sorting office in the conservation area, …
Read More »ChargedEV announces move to The HQ in Chesterfield – Destination Chesterfield
By Josh Marsh – 6 March 2023 An award-winning EV charging infrastructure specialist has moved into a grade A office development in Chesterfield, as it strives to become the UK’s largest EV charging service provider. ChargedEV works with a range of market-leading key partners in the lease, fleet, and property …
Read More »Glasgow posties raise £6k for community with cheeky calendar
Thanks to an initiative from Glasgow Southside Strike Solidarity, Communications Workers Union members from the Victoria Road depot produced their own Calendar Girls effort, as first reported by our sister title The Herald in November. Initially the posties had planned to use the money to bolster the CWU’s strike fund …
Read More »Royal Mail to increase first and second class stamp prices within weeks
STAMP UP: The price increase will come into effect from April 3, this year (Photo by PA) By Ruby Flanagan For the first time, the cost of a first class stamp is set to break the £1 barrier and rise to £1.10, early next month. Royal Mail has announced that …
Read More »Corrections and clarifications | | The Guardian
An article about the Oscars described two of Michelle Yeoh’s co-stars in Everything Everywhere All at Once as Chinese. Ke Huy Quan is Vietnamese-American and Stephanie Hsu is American, both of Chinese descent (Your quick Oscars primer, 4 March, p19). Homophone corner: “I am reaping what I sewed through hard …
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