The Strategic Mailing Partnership (SMP) has welcomed Royal Mail’s 2022 initiatives to support the growth and retention of the letters industry. Royal Mail is renewing its current incentives for a further 12 months while updated fixed percentage discounts will once again be available on different types of mail to enhance …
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With Christmas day fast approaching, ensuring cards, presents and parcels make it to their destination by December 25 is hard enough when you’re Santa. For us mere mortals, lots of us will be relying on the Post Office. As the pandemic continues, it will mean yet again some families may …
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Parcel firms will have to tighten up their complaints handling after the industry watchdog said almost two thirds of customers had experienced problems with deliveries in the last three months. Ofcom said people sending and receiving parcels should be treated fairly by delivery companies and that around a quarter …
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Two royal Christmas cards featuring very different designs were released today – with Prince William and Kate opting for a family holiday photo while his father Prince Charles made a nod to the Covid pandemic. A family holiday in the desert with Dad in shorts, the youngsters in their summer …
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People living in one part of Merseyside say they have been waiting on important deliveries for up to two weeks. Jean Lowe is one of a number of New Ferry residents who have experienced problems with their post in recent weeks. The 65-year-old said she was forced to go to …
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A serving member of the Australian navy reserve has given shocking evidence at a royal commission of how she was sexually assaulted as a recruit. A serving member of the Australian navy reserve has given harrowing evidence to a royal commission of her sexual assault at the hands of a …
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Consumers sending and receiving parcels in the UK should be treated more fairly by delivery companies, the communications regulator Ofcom said as it outlined proposed new protections today. More than ten million parcels are delivered on an average day in the UK, and Ofcom – which has responsibility for the …
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Today is the last chance to hand in a toy or chocolate treat at one of the five collection points in Dumfries for the Standard’s Christmas Toy Appeal. Our public appeal ends today to give us time to sort out the hundreds of toys which have been donated during the …
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Cllr Shuttleworth wrote to the chief executive of Royal Mail about the lack of public information on the problem that has impacted residents in the Langney area. Royal Mail sorting and delivery office in Southfields Road (Photo by Jon Rigby) SUS-210912-095722008 Now resident Julie Farrow has questioned what’s being done …
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Plans have gone in to transform an eyesore in the town centre. As we have previously reported the former Spalding Sorting Office in The Crescent will be transformed into flats. Mr S Gareb has now lodged plans to change the use of the site to create 10 flats with retail …
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