[ad_1] PUBLISHED: 07:30 27 March 2020 Oliver Sullivan The World Health Organisation said the chances of contracting coronavirus from packages delivered in the post is low Picture: STEVE PARSONS/PA PA Archive/PA Images Households across the country are improving their cleaning regimes in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus – but how long can…
[ad_1] 2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Royal Mail postal worker stands in the yard of a sorting office in Altrincham, 2/2 (Reuters) – Royal Mail (L:) said on Friday its heavily disputed turnaround program would take longer than previously planned as it cancelled its dividend and suspended financial forecasts for the next year due…
[ad_1] Royal Mail said it expects its UK parcels and letters business to be loss-making next year as it feels the impact of coronavirus. The delivery giant said it expects to meet its forecasts for the financial year ending March 31 but held off on a dividend payout and suspended guidance for the next year….
[ad_1] Here are the top business, market, and economic stories you should be watching today in the UK, Europe, and abroad: Markets slide as US coronavirus cases rise The FTSE 100 opened sharply lower on Friday, following three days of gains during a turbulent week. The index (^FTSE) was down 3.6% to 5,603.82 shortly after…
[ad_1] Royal Mail have issued an update for online sellers who want to send mail from home during the Coronavirus crisis. They set out the ways in which you can self serve keeping contact to a minimum whilst continuing to despatch sales. “As one of the UK’s essential services, Royal Mail remains open for business…
[ad_1] Royal Mail has warned it may have to cut back on postal services as increasing numbers of its staff take sick leave. The company, which provides letter and parcel delivery services to 30m homes and businesses, said it had taken measures to limit contact in the workplace and with customers on postal rounds but…
[ad_1] Postal workers have called on Royal Mail and e-commerce sites to limit the amount of non-essential items they are being asked to deliver at a time when they are risking their health by turning up to work. Despite the UK government’s closure of non-essential retail outlets, e-commerce companies can continue operating unless they decide…
[ad_1] Compared to their grandparents, the effects of Covid-19 on our children will be relatively small. But only in the short term. In the longer term, the effects of the pandemic – or more accurately its economic consequences – are likely to resemble those experienced by children who grew up in the Great Depression. Early…
[ad_1] Buckingham Palace scrapped a national televised address about coronavirus from the Queen ‘for her own safety’ and to keep the airways clear for politicians and medical professionals, a royal expert has claimed. Last week Her Majesty, 93, issued a statement on the outbreak, saying the UK is ‘entering a period of great concern and uncertainty’….
[ad_1] Fury at Boris Johnson as it emerges No10 only asked on SUNDAY for research labs to lend the government vital coronavirus equipment – despite pledging mass testing a week ago Experts including the WHO say mass testing is crucial to combat coronavirus Downing Street wrote to research labs on Sunday asking to borrow testing…