Royal Mail’s Parcel Collect service is now £0 until the end of December 2022 and booking it has become even easier. With Parcel Collect, customers arrange for their daily postal worker to collect their parcels from their doorstep. Customers sending or returning a parcel on the Royal Mail app or …
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Britain is experiencing a wave of strikes on a scale unseen for decades. More than 40,000 rail workers represented by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) and Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) will continue national rail strikes on Thursday and Saturday. Around 10,000 RMT members on the London Underground …
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The Royal Navy has become embroiled in a row after backing down on its role as a ‘taxi service’ for migrants in the Channel – as the number of crossings has reached more than 20,000 so far this year. The Ministry of Defence has told ministers that Navy ships will …
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McNulty said postal workers deserved a wage increase that reflects the rising cost of living. Postal workers are set to begin four days of strike action on 26 August. Newry and Armagh MLA Justin McNulty says, “Royal Mail workers have the full backing of myself and the SDLP …
Read More »Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation reached 10.1% last month. It is the biggest jump in the cost of living since February 1982, when CPI reached 10.4%, according to estimates. Here is what was happening in the country in 1982: – Economy The unemployment rate stood at 10.4%, the highest it …
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Biomethane supplier CNG Fuels has officially opened its tenth heavy-goods vehicle (HGV) re-fuelling station in the UK today, with the new Castleford site in West Yorkshire bringing the firm’s total re-fuelling capability up to 5,000 HGVs across the country daily, it announced today. The new station on the Normanton Industrial …
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By David Hartwig Great Britain’s Royal Mail celebrates the British contribution to The Transformers animated franchise on its Sept. 1 issue of 13 stamps. “The Transformers — alien robots who can change into vehicles, machinery and weapons — first appeared in toy shops and on TV screens in 1984,” Royal …
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RBC chief executive Dave McKay speaks at the Royal Bank of Canada annual meeting in Toronto on April 6, 2017.Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press The chief executive of Canada’s largest bank is urging employees to return to the office more frequently, and is saying the bank must become more deliberate about …
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It’s no secret that despite the massive boon in online shopping and packages needing delivery, traditional mail service is struggling. No one writes nice letters to each other any more, but that could soon change as the Royal Mail in the UK is about to introduce some truly amazing postage …
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