Royal Mail No. 325013 leads two more 325 EMU units through Oxenholme in northern England on June 28, 2018, with a mail service from Glasgow to Warrington. The privatized mail service has announced plans to end rail operations. Keith Fender The British postal service, Royal Mail, has announced it will …
Read More »Royal Mail unveils special Dungeons & Dragons 50th anniversary stamp collection featuring iconic monsters
Royal Mail has today revealed its brand new Dungeon & Dragons stamp collection to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ‘world’s greatest roleplaying game’. In total, 14 special stamps have been issued for D&D, which is often cited as the first modern role-playing game. It is currently estimated there are …
Read More »Royal Mail failing to deliver for households hit by post delays
Citizens Advice warns the watering down of Royal Mail delivery rules risks ‘rewarding failure’ as millions hit by post delays. Citizens Advice said letter delays hit almost one in six people – or 7.2 million – this spring, according to its survey of more than 2,000 Great British adults. This …
Read More »Royal Mail celebrates 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons
The Royal Mail collection of 14 stamps features monsters and characters from the iconic game, illustrated by British artist Wayne Reynolds. Royal Mail has revealed images of 14 Special Stamps being issued to celebrate 50 years since the creation of roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). The collection is …
Read More »Royal Mail to switch postal traffic from electric trains to road | Rail Business UK
Show Fullscreen UK: Royal Mail has decided to stop using rail to move letters and parcels, replacing its electric train services with road haulage from October 10. Operator DB Cargo UK said it was ‘profoundly disappointed’ by Royal Mail’s decision, which it said had been taken purely because of the …
Read More »Royal Mail Maidenhead opening times blasted as ‘sick joke’
The office on Howarth Road is open between 8am and 10am on most days for people trying to collect missed parcels. Gurch Singh, a Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead councillor, said he thought the hours were a ‘sick joke’ after trying to collect a parcel himself. He told the …
Read More »Watering down Royal Mail delivery rules risks ‘rewarding failure’ – report
Watering down Royal Mail delivery rules risks “rewarding failure” as millions of households are hit by post delays, Citizens Advice has warned. Following concerns about postal voting for the election, the charity said letter delays hit almost one in six people – or 7.2 million – this spring. Research by …
Read More »Royal Mail trains confined to history as it switches to road
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Read More »Watering down Royal Mail delivery rules risks ‘rewarding failure’ – report
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Read More »End of an Era: Royal Mail to Cease Railway Transport
The National Postal Service of Britain, Royal Mail, has announced its decision to discontinue the use of railway transport for mail delivery starting October of this year, this is reported by the railway transport news portal Railway Supply. Photo: James Hime/Shutterstock This move is part of their strategy to modernize …
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