British postal service Royal Mail has launched a new Chinese-focused online shop front to capture soaring demand in the mainland cross-border e-commerce market and rising interest among local consumers for premium UK-made products.
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Lancashire Evening Post Wildcat strikes by Preston postal workers disrupt deliveriesBBC NewsRoyal Mail delivery director Adrian Fielding said the company was "urging colleagues to return to work immediately and stop this unnecessary inconvenience to our customers". He said the action related to "a conduct case involving one individual in the …Postal strike pain continuesLancashire Evening…
[ad_1] Ewan Galloway, pictured on the right hand side (red trousers, playing accordion) with his band, has been entertaining music fans across the world during lockdown. Accordion player Ewan Galloway (30), of the Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band, performed on Facebook Live most nights during lockdown and still plays online two or three times a…
Royal Mail is investing around £130 million over five years in handheld technology to "support more flexible deliveries for customers" and better tracking capabilities. More: continued here
[ad_1] New flights are making it easier for curious Americans to visit one of the world’s most off-the-beaten-track destinations—the island of St. Helena. Far flung in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, St. Helena (pronounced St. Hel-EE-na) is one of the planet’s most remote inhabited islands: 1,200 miles from Africa, and 1,800 miles from…
[ad_1] A postman who was sacked by Royal Mail after falling over twice at work because he wasn’t looking where he was going has lost an unfair dismissal claim. Paul Duffy fractured his shoulder after tripping on a path and just three months later, he broke his knee after slipping on a sledge in a driveway while…
[ad_1] Garry Haldane, a former councillor and one of the workers at the sorting office, had made a plea for donations earlier this week. Since then he has been inundated with goods – he told the Press this afternoon (Friday) that he had been “blown away” by support – but says the volume of items…