The Daily Telegraph reported that sources close to Royal Mail said fakes from China were causing a rise in complaints that stamps bought from legitimate stores were being deemed fraudulent. The newspaper identified four Chinese suppliers offering to print up to one million counterfeit Royal Mail stamps a week. These …
Read More »Attend UK Postal Workers Rank-and File meeting Sunday: “They want Royal Mail on a par with Evri and Amazon”
Hundreds of copies of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) statement “Oppose Royal Mail’s Assault on the USO! Defeat CWU’s Collusion!” have been distributed at Royal Mail delivery offices in Bradford, Keighley, Sheffield, Barnsley, Leicester, Glasgow and Manchester. The appeal to attend the PWRFC’s Zoom meeting this Sunday, April 28, …
Read More »Local pharmacy chain launches app for Pharmacy First consultation bookings
A medium pharmacy chain has launched an app that lets patients book Pharmacy First consultations and blood pressure checks, its app developer Charac revealed yesterday (April 22). Jardines Pharmacy’s patients can also now order repeat prescriptions, organise medicine deliveries and book pharmacist consultations for earwax removal, travel vaccinations and other …
Read More »CWU Conference 2024 Review free Royal Mail redeliveries as USO no longer viable, CWU delegates hear
FREE Royal Mail redeliveries should be reviewed after the company’s actions have left its six-day delivery service financially unviable, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) conference heard today. Deputy general secretary Martin Walsh told delegates in Bournemouth that the union has submitted its rejection of a three- or four-day letter delivery service to regulator Ofcom, which is …
Read More »National Gardening Week – support your local businesses
From 29th April to 5th May, join the Royal Horticultural Society as it demystifies the wonderful world of gardening. The theme for National Gardening Week in 2024 is ‘Knowledge is Flower.’ All week, experts at the RHS will be on hand myth-busting, debunking and demystifying the wonderful world of gardening. …
Read More »CWU Conference 2024 Royal Mail urged to introduce free redirection service to women’s refuges
ROYAL MAIL has been urged to waive its postal redirection service fees to women’s refuges. Communication Workers Union (CWU) delegates unanimously backed the move at the union’s conference in Bournemouth today. South Yorkshire delegate Louise James told delegates the voluntary sector should not be relied on to cover the redirection fees for …
Read More »CWU Conference 2024 CWU conference news in brief: April 23, 2024
WELLBEING: Royal Mail must update its dementia policy as the cost-of-living crisis fuels a record number of economically active older workers, CWU delegates have said. A motion passed at the union’s conference in Bournemouth today warned that the abolition of the default retirement age in 2011 combined with rising pension ages are …
Read More »CWU Conference 2024 Posties are being treated in an ‘awful’ way by ‘faceless’ HR who now ‘run the company’, say CWU delegates
POSTAL workers are being treated in an awful way by “faceless HR staff who now run the company,” Communication Workers Union (CWU) delegates have said. An emergency motion warning of an “out of control and unaccountable” fifth column within Royal Mail was passed unanimously at the union’s annual conference in Bournemouth today. Plymouth and East …
Read More »PRESS DIGEST-British Business – April 23
April 23 (Reuters) – The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. The Times – Keith Williams, the chairman of Royal Mail’s parent company, International Distributions Services, has urged Ofcom to speed …
Read More »UK limbers up for rate cut… and not before time, says ALEX BRUMMER
By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Updated: 17:03 EDT, 22 April 2024 Andrew Bailey has had little to celebrate of late. He has suffered the slings and arrows of the barbed Bernanke report on Bank of England forecasting and indiscriminate fire from former Prime Minister Liz Truss. Amid the …
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