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The planned cap on stamp prices is the latest blow to Royal Mail, which is trying to shift its focus to parcels as demand for letters continues to decline. Earlier this month, the Government blocked the company’s plans to axe Saturday letter deliveries. The move threatens to drive the price …

A former shop could be brought back into use as a Post Office, which has long been a staple of Ipswich’s high street, searches for a new home. Proposals have been drafted to move the Carr Street office into the former Jessops in Butter Market. The premises has been empty …

A sub-postmaster at a village post office under threat of closure has started a petition to reverse a decision made by Royal Mail. Mailworkers will be relocated from Dersingham Post Office in August and relocated to the sorting office in Lynn and the petition currently has a combined total online …

The problem is that the USO can only be scrapped with Parliament’s say-so and it is refusing to play ball, business minister Kevin Hollinrake has announced. “As you will be aware, we currently have no plans to change the minimum requirements of the universal postal service,” he said in a …

Royal Mail's pleas to axe Saturday deliveries have been blocked by ministers as regulators investigate where to fine the company for breaching its … Source link

An investigation is being held into a complaint that a postman urinated in front of a home in South Holland. Royal Mail has confirmed that it has received a complaint about the behaviour of one of its staff members. The incident is reported to have happened outside a home in …

A village post office that is under threat of closure has been given support by MP James Wild. Fraser Lindsay, sub-postmaster at Dersingham Post Office, had written to North West Norfolk MP Mr Wild for help after he received a letter of notice from Royal Mail notifying him that mail …

A village post office is under threat of closure following a letter of notice from Royal Mail. The details, sent to sub-post master Fraser Lindsay, give a six month notice to withdraw mailworkers from the premises in Dersingham. Four post personnel, three of whom live in Dersingham and one in …

Amazon has parachuted in Evri to assist with deliveries as Royal Mail grapples with poor performance in the wake of a long-running industrial dispute. The US tech giant has added Evri – formerly known as Hermes – alongside Royal Mail and DPD to deliver goods on behalf of businesses that …

The winding up petition was issued by Hadleigh Castings, an Ipswich aluminium foundry, earlier this month. It sought £84,011.76 for five unpaid invoices as well as interest and compensation. Filings said: “Despite numerous requests by the Petitioner, the company has failed to settle the above invoices or provide any reason …