Royal Mail has said it will need to raise its prices and cut costs due to rising inflation and weak economic growth. In its full-year results for the 52-week period ended March 2022, the postal operator achieved revenue of £12.71bn, up 0.6% on the £12.64bn it achieved a year …
Read More »Resources poured into Covid while heart disease and cancer remain the big killers
SIR – The Health Security Agency UK tells us some two million lateral flow and PCR tests are performed each day and just under 200,000 of these are positive for Covid. That’s 10 per cent of the tests undertaken. Of people with positive tests, 2,200 (1.1 per cent) go to …
Read More »What are the best parcel delivery options? Post office tracking and prices
ROYAL MAIL has been delivering letters and parcels for over 500 years and has tons of services available from “signed for” to “UK guaranteed” delivery. We explain the different Post Office delivery package options on offer. 3 If you’re sending an important parcel, there are lots of delivery options from …
Read More »Socialist Party :: The Socialist Inbox
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1119/31975 From The Socialist newspaper, 3 February 2021 Do you have something to say? Send your news, views and criticism, in not more than 150 words, to [email protected] – or if you’re not online, PO Box 1398, Enfield EN1 9GT. We reserve the right to shorten …
Read More »Letters: No thought for a girl alone for Christmas in a rented room in London
SIR – Tanya Gold (“Cornwall has had its fill of unwelcome visitors”, Comment, December 16) is right about the economic pressures inside Cornwall, but the headline to her article is not a fair representation of Cornish opinion. The surge of visitors following the end of the first lockdown was widely …
Read More »Letters: Frustration Britain: no post, no customer service, no phones answered
In other words, customer service at Royal Mail is a farce, and the postal service on offer is rather less than serviceable. And from January 1, the cost of … Source link
Read More »Letters: The Government will let vaccination certificates become compulsory
SIR – The rapid production and release of Covid vaccine is a triumph. However, I was chilled by Jonathan Van-Tam’s remarks that face-mask wearing may be compulsory for years. Masks are dehumanising – and a nuisance. I live in a fog of condensation on my glasses when wearing one. In …
Read More »Community spirit in Tower Hamlets
Opinion PUBLISHED: 08:30 17 October 2020 Unmesh Desai am, cITY AND eAST Unmesh Desai AM is well aware of the community spirit in Tower Hamlets. London Assemby The second Covid-19 wave is upon us and east London is particularly affected. Email this article to a friend To send a link …
Read More »Letters: Where is the evidence for the Government's lockdown threats and excoriation of the young?
SIR – Royal Mail's plan in the face of dwindling business involves charging more and providing less. That should surely fix the problem. Simon Watson Source link
Read More »Letters: In these testing times, the kindness of strangers has come to the fore
SIR – We have been overwhelmed by the kindness of complete strangers during this crisis. On Thursday my wife and I visited our local supermarket for provisions. There was a queue outside, and when we walked round the corner we saw that it stretched a long way back. There was …
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