Residents in Rugby say they are still waiting to receive Christmas cards because of huge postal delays affecting the area. A number of people living in the town said they were still receiving cards sent over the festive period, some sent from within Rugby itself. Royal Mail has apologised for …
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Maybe it’s from our English forebears, whose Royal Mail Service was started in 1516, that our nation’s founders were inspired to establish the U.S. Post Office, which they did definitively by making sure it was part of our federal Constitution (Article II, Sec. 8, #7). Since then, the U.S. Postal …
Read More »Mail chiefs warn of covid delivery backlog due to staff being off work with the virus
Renfrewshire residents are set to be hit by mail delays as covid takes its toll. Homes in Erskine and areas of Paisley are set to be hit by postal disruption as Royal Mail bosses say deliveries have been hit by staff absences. They warn that rising numbers of workers being …
Read More »Next and other big employers cut sick pay for unvaccinated workers
Next has cut sick pay for unvaccinated members of its workforce who are forced to self-isolate when someone close to them contracts the virus. Under a rule change introduced in England last month, vaccinated people no longer need to isolate even if they are ‘close contacts’ of someone who has …
Read More »Bishop dared his friend to send him a letter just addressed to ‘The Lord Bishop and his sexy wife’
Bishop, 66, who dared his friend to send him a letter just addressed to ‘The Lord Bishop and his sexy wife’ says he was impressed with the Royal Mail after it arrived in the post Dr John Inge, 66, dared his friend to write the address on a late Christmas …
Read More »Moment man defecates on a family’s doorstep – and steals their daughter’s scooter
‘My daughter said it must have been the reindeer’: Stomach-churning moment man pulls down his pants and defecates on a family’s doorstep on Christmas Eve – and steals their five-year-old’s scooter A family in Aurora, Colorado found an unwanted present outside after unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning after a man …
Read More »Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ‘plan to leave £11m California home’
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are planning to leave their £11million California mansion because they are ‘not over the moon’ with it, reports say. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are reportedly looking to move from their nine-bedroom property in the exclusive neighbourhood of Montecito after just 18 months as …
Read More »Royal Mail customers in Leicestershire warned of delays due to Covid staff issues
Royal Mail customers in Leicestershire are being warned of delays to their post due to problems at sorting centres across the country, it has emerged. People living in LE postcodes in the city and most of the county are among those affected by a backlog at the postal service’s South …
Read More »Perth and Kinross residents urged to be vigilant against “utterly horrific” COVID text and email scams
Perth and Kinross residents are being urged to be vigilant against “utterly horrific” text and email scams targeting those awaiting their COVID jabs. Constituents have even contacted a local MSP with their concerns after receiving messages claiming to be from the NHS health board or the government, which seek personal …
Read More »Windsor Castle crossbow suspect, 19, ‘who threatened to assassinate Queen’ held ‘Royal grudge’
A teenager suspected of scaling Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow in a bid to assassinate the Queen on Christmas Day apparently festered a two year long hatred of the Royals. Jaswant Singh Chail, 19, uploaded a pre-recorded video to Snapchat vowing revenge for the 1919 Amritsar, or Jallianwala Bagh, massacre, when British troops …
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