CITY A.M. Government hires banks for Royal Mail privatisationCITY A.M.THE UK Government today confirmed that UBS and Goldman Sachs have been appointed as joint global coordinators and bookrunners for the planned privatisation of Royal Mail, which is expected to result in an IPO this year. Barclays and Bank of America …
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The West Australian Government appoints lead banks for Royal Mail listingThe West AustralianLONDON (Reuters) – The government has appointed Goldman Sachs and UBS as the lead banks to run a planned London stock market listing of Royal Mail. The initial public offering is expected to take place later this year …
Read More »Salvation’s not for sale: eBay smites N.J. man’s auction for spot in heaven – NJ.com
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The government is facing questions over its decision to hand the potentially lucrative mandate to float the Royal Mail to banks involved in the manipulation of Libor. More: continued here
Read More »Post Office Finally Delivers 70-Year-Old Letter to Greenwich Village Address – New York Observer
Post Office Finally Delivers 70-Year-Old Letter to Greenwich Village AddressNew York ObserverA Greenwich Village woman was surprised earlier this year when she opened her mailbox to find a hand-written letter from 1944. “I hardly ever get real letters– maybe once in awhile from my mom or family, so as I …
Read More »After seeing our report, post office apologizes to bride-to-be – WECT-TV6
After seeing our report, post office apologizes to bride-to-beWECT-TV6LELAND, NC (WECT) – After her original wedding invitations were damaged in a fire on a postal truck, the post office picked up the tab for the postage for a bride-to-be's new set of invitations. The truck caught fire on Highway 74/76 …
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The FedEx tractor that caught fire Wednesday on southbound Interstate 5 was empty, so packages aren’t expected to be damaged by the mess that clogged Seattle traffic for hours. About 4:30 a.m., the double tractor-trailer was behind a car that hit its brakes, the State Patrol said. When the truck …
Read More »Post Office Finally Delivers 70-Year-Old Letter to Greenwich Village Address
( Lost Letter Project ) Talk about the lost and found. A Greenwich Village woman was surprised earlier this year when she opened her mailbox to find a hand-written letter from 1944. "I hardly ever get real letters– maybe once in awhile from my mom or family, so as I …
Read More »FedEx delivering jobs to rapidly growing Zionsville
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Read More »In tech makeover mode, post offices to push the e-governance envelope
A view of the TCS office in Shollinganallur, near Chennai. File Photo E-mail may have killed the ‘letter’, but not the post-office. The friendly, paper-and-glue smelling post-office is reinventing itself, becoming swank and going electronic. More: continued here
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