London postal workers threaten June strike over job cutsPersonnelToday.com, UKThe postal workers' union has said that 16000 Royal Mail staff in London are likely to strike next month in response to efficiency savings being introduced by the organisation. The Communication Workers' Union (CWU) said staff at 159 depots across …Strike threat …
Read More »Tories bully Mandelson over Royal Mail (Politics.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The Tories will remove their support for the government on partial privatisation of the Royal Mail if it offers concessions to Labour backbenchers, the party has warned. More: continued here
Read More »Pilots Broke U.S. Cockpit-Chatter Rules in N.Y. Crash (Update4) (Bloomberg)
May 12 (Bloomberg) — Pinnacle Airlines Corp. pilots violated rules against unnecessary cockpit chatter minutes before a February crash near Buffalo, New York, that killed 50 people, a U.S. safety board said today. More: continued here
Read More »Multi Modal Conference focuses on faster, cheaper, greener flow of goods (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Railroads are poised to become bigger players in FedEx’s hometown, a transportation consultant told the Memphis Multi Modal Conference Monday. More: continued here
Read More »FedEx Shares Fall; Outlook Better Than Rival’s (The Memphis Daily News)
Shares of FedEx Corp. fell Monday as the broader markets lost ground, and an analyst said the company’s aggressive cost cuts might not be enough to of…. More: continued here
Read More »Stamp your vote with time – Economic Times
Stamp your vote with timeEconomic Times, IndiaReason: Unlike in a trade, there is no time stamp on your vote. But, now, there will be voting with time stamps. Parts of Tamil Nadu, for the first time, will be voting on machines that come with an in-built timer to detect the time …
Read More »Get your passport at the Breckenridge Post Office on Thursday (Summit Daily News)
The Breckenridge Post Office will have extended hours on Thursday to process passports for families. As of June 1, 2009, passports will be required to travel to Mexico, Canada, Bermuda and the countries of the Caribbean. More: continued here
Read More »$20,000 in stamps stolen to pay mortgage (CNN)
Postal authorities say a Michigan postal worker has admitted to stealing some $20,000 worth of first-class stamps since September and trying to sell them to online auction-site customers to help pay his mortgage. More: continued here
Read More »Alarm at Royal Mail control concessions (SNP)
SNP Postal Affairs spokesperson, Mike Weir MP, has expressed alarm at UK government plans to cede control over the appointment of a new Royal Mail chief executive and other key operational matters to any minority private shareholder. More: continued here
Read More »Mid-Daily Items: Hot stamps for sale (The Daily Item)
The cost to mail a first-class letter went up to 44 cents on Monday. But if you went to John Auito, of Macomb, Mich., you probably could have purchased stamps at a 15 percent discount. Sometimes crooks don’t think about what they are doing. In the case of an alleged …
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