A leading Titanic expert who was involved in the project called the modelling a “gamechanger.” NEW YORK — Deep-sea researchers have completed the first full-size digital scan of the Titanic, showing the entire wreck in unprecedented detail and clarity, the companies behind a new documentary on the wreck said Thursday. …
Read More »Business owners voice concerns over possible loss of Jersey’s mail plane
JERSEY business owners have raised concerns about Royal Mail plans to replace the Island’s daily mail flight with a slower, ‘clunky’ ferry service. One said he feared that local retailers selling on Amazon would be hit hard as the online giant prioritised sellers by delivery time as well as price. …
Read More »Wait for weeks or get it yourself – staff shortages impact post deliveries in Stratford
A CANCER patient missed five hospital appointments because Royal Mail has failed to deliver her letters on time. Stratford resident Laura told the Herald she’s often left waiting three weeks for her post to arrive. And she said it was “disgusting” that it’s delayed her treatment. Laura is one of …
Read More »Royal Mail parent blames $1.3 billion loss on strikes, lagging productivity
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 …
Read More »Most Companies Can’t Handle Cybersecurity Alone
The way to detect and neutralize determined cyber attackers is with 24/7 eyes-on-glass delivered by expert security operations professionals. These highly skilled operators have never been more critically urgent. Few organizations, however, have the right tools, people, infrastructure, and processes in-house to do this on their own. Global cybersecurity workforce …
Read More »Communication Workers Union unites with management to enforce revisions at Parcelforce
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is joining hands with Royal Mail Group to implement a fresh round of revisions in never-ending increased exploitation including at its dedicated parcels arm, Parcelforce Worldwide On May 10, the CWU announced a delay to the start of the month-long ballot of 115,000 postal workers …
Read More »Water firms apologise, BT shrinks workforce, and Royal Mail in the red | Business News
Ian King speaks to Rain Newton-Smith from the CBI, the chair of Water UK, Ruth Kelly and Holly Bishop, chief operating and commercial officer at NME Networks. He also speaks to Ruth Mortimer, Global President of Advertising Week Europe, Nick Burns, the chief executive of Reward Gateway, as well as …
Read More »Royal Mail Reports Loss Of £1 Billion After Year Of Strikes
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 …
Read More »‘Gross mismanagement’ of Royal Mail to blame for firm’s £1bn losses, union says
THE “gross mismanagement” of Royal Mail is to blame for the privatised firm slumping to losses of more than £1 billion, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) warned today. The owner of the 500-year-old company, International Distributions Services (IDS), revealed it suffered an operating loss of £1.04bn for the year to late March, …
Read More »Royal Mail’s privatisation, 10 years on
Image source: Getty Images Nearly 10 years ago, the bulk of Royal Mail was privatised, with the process being completed two years later, in October 2015. But the odds are good that if you bought into the privatisation process, you did so during that first sale, in October 2013. Royal …
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