BBC News Royal Mail seeks 18000 Christmas staffBBC NewsThe Royal Mail is looking for tens of thousands of temporary workers to help with deliveries this Christmas. It is looking for 18000 extra staff – 2000 fewer than last year, partly because of a fall in postal volumes. It says temporary …
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About 300 jobs at the Scranton Processing and Distribution Center could hang in the balance as the U.S. Postal Service studies whether to move operations at 2800 Stafford Ave. to the Lehigh Valley Distribution Center.The Postal Service is looking at the More: continued here
Read More »Stamp, postcard show Sept. 24 – NorthJersey.com (press release)
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Read More »Fury at Royal Mail site plan – Reading Post
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Read More »Offices are deluged with flood victims seeking food stamps – NorthJersey.com
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