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Royal Mail has been fined £10.5m by the communications regulator Ofcom for failing to meet delivery targets for first and second-class mail in the 2023-2024 financial year. The penalty was nearly double last year’s fine of £5.6m for failing to meet obligations under the Universal Service Obligation. Under Ofcom’s standards, …

POSTIES in Shetland are set to take delivery of as many as 20 new vehicles, Royal Mail has confirmed. A spokesperson for the company confirmed on Friday that as part of a plan for replacing older vehicles five new vans have already been received, with a further 15 due to …

ALMOST a third of postal jobs in Shetland vacant, posties driving a fleet of aging vehicles and a Lerwick delivery office which is “not fit for purpose”. Add to that an hourly pay rate which is lower than generally offered in the isles, and a lack of accommodation for workers …

ROYAL Mail says a lack of postal workers in Shetland and an increase in online buying has led some to some people waiting longer for their post.  Post is now flown from Glasgow, instead of Aberdeen, to the isles – with concerns raised earlier in the year that would lead …

Atlanta-area postal worker Shannon Barnes collapsed on the job on Sunday, August 18 from a brain aneurysm and later died, after her co-workers were unable to call 911 in a timely manner due to a lack of cellphone coverage in the vast facility where they worked. Barnes, a 48-year-old mother, worked …

This delivery was quite literally postponed. As if the world’s post offices weren’t plagued by enough delays: Employees at a Welsh bank were dumbfounded after receiving a postcard 121 years after it was originally sent. “It turned up completely out of the blue,” Henry Darby, the marketing and communications officer …

Royal Mail parent International Distribution Services (IDS) announced on Monday that its parcel services subsidiary, GLS, would sell its US freight divisions to California-based DC Logistics. The move was part of GLS’ strategic focus on enhancing its core parcel services. According to Reuters, the divestment would include GLS US Freight …

The new Labour government is set to look closely at the £5.3bn takeover of Royal Mail-owner International Distribution Services by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky. Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds said it would be “reasonable to expect [the deal] to be called in”, as ministers had intervened when Kretinsky increased his stake …

Capita announced the renewal of its contract with the Cabinet Office to administer the Royal Mail Statutory Pension Scheme (RMSPS) on Tuesday, for an additional six years from 2026. The London-listed outsourcing specialist said the contract included an option to extend for a further two years, following a competitive selection …

(SWNS) By Lauren Beavis via SWNS Postal workers should be given ‘hard hats’ to protect them from seagulls according to residents who have stopped getting mail due to attacks. Households have stopped receiving mail due to attacks by the birds and have now called for them to be issued protection. …