[ad_1] UKIP’s Royal Mail Number-Crunching mdi-fullscreen When UKIP sent the Guy Newsroom a press release claiming Royal Mail will burn £3.1 million a day by switching its delivery fleet to electric vehicles, which they worked out to be some £871 million annually – more than double Royal Mail’s profits – Guido had a few questions….
[ad_1] Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Royal Mail workers will stage strikes this month and next in an escalating row over pay, jobs and conditions. The Communications Workers Union (CWU) formally notified Royal Mail of the November strikes…
[ad_1] Royal Mail has brought forward its Christmas delivery deadline for customers amid ongoing strikes from postal workers. Members of the Communications Workers Union have been striking throughout December, with more strike days announced for the week before Christmas. The strikes are expected to create delays in the delivery of parcels and letters at the…
[ad_1] The UK is facing it’s biggest occurrence of collective action in three decades this winter. Among those striking are nurses, rail workers, paramedics, teachers, bus drivers and border staff, with fire fighters and junior doctors among other public sector workers consider taking action. The strikes come at a tense time for the ruling Conservative…
[ad_1] You’ve only got until the end of the week to post your cards if you want to ensure they will arrive in time for the big day. Last posting dates for Christmas have been brought forward because of strike action on four remaining days this month by Royal Mail staff and households have been…
[ad_1] Credit cards, passports and a birth certificate were among around 60 items snatched from a Royal Mail delivery worker, police have confirmed. A handful of homes in the Westwood area of Oldham reported their post never arrived last month after mail was stolen from a Royal Mail delivery driver. Among the missing parcels were up…
[ad_1] Exclusive: The Communication Workers Union said it has had multiple reports of workers being told sick leave will be seen as ‘unauthorised absence’ for the foreseeable future The backlog of undelivered letters and parcels which has been building up for days outside the Royal Mail sorting office in Bristol ( Image: Tom Wren SWNS)…
[ad_1] On Wednesday, 115,000 postal workers from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are set to embark on a 48-hour strike. The CWU is currently holding rallies outside Parliament Square and has said they will continue until Christmas unless Royal Mail change their current pay offer, which the union has said is still below inflation and…
[ad_1] The Royal Mail postal strikes are hitting Brits hard in a way you might not expect. Horny shoppers have been left without their kinky Christmas presents, after several strikes over the next week take place, on top of ones already completed. But according to the owner of sex toy company GetFruityCo.com, post offices around…
[ad_1] Photos taken 17 hours apart show heaps of post left outside a Bristol Royal Mail centre, as national strikes continue. The undelivered post was pictured on Monday and again on Tuesday (December 13) ahead of another strike day today. Some of the containers pictured at 7pm on Monday were photographed in the same spot…