‘Shrine’ set up for doomed postbox (Independent)

British Postal Regulator: Inflation-based Price Caps a FailureMultichannel MerchantAccording to a recent Ofcom report, in a highly uncertain market price controls “have removed the flexibility that would allow Royal Mail to adjust to changes in demand, while at the same time Royal Mail has been unable to improve efficiency, … More: continued here

Extra cash for training welcomedAbeceder, UK –4 hours agoChester CWU Royal Mail learning centre gets prestigious TUC unionlearn Quality Award Chester postmen and union learning reps Martin McNally and Adrian Prinz …NCVO: Isle of Wight organisation wins ICT award for promoting …Politics.co.ukall 2 news articles More: continued here

Swindon Advertiser Royal Mail warns people to get their parcels and packages in before final …Swindon AdvertiserA spokesman for Royal Mail said: “Each year Royal Mail invests in additional resources for its Christmas operation to handle the festive mail bag. This has included recruiting 19,000 seasonal workers, deploying an extra 4,700 trucks and vans and…

Six weeks to stop Tories selling off Royal MailSocialist WorkerPostal workers are building for strikes against government plans to sell off Royal Mail. Ministers have announced that it could be privatised in as little as six weeks. The sell-off goes further than even Margaret Thatcher dared. The government wants … More: continued here

Business Cloud News Rackspace, KPMG, Royal Mail announce big data summer schoolBusiness Cloud NewsHosting and cloud services provider Rackspace announced the launch of Science to Data Science (S2DS), a summer school for PhD students aimed at training them for jobs using big data technologies. The programme is being sponsored by companies like …Summer school set up…