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NORTHERN Isles MP Alistair Carmichael says it is time to “turn up the heat” on Royal Mail to end staffing issues at the Lerwick sorting office. He claimed the company had shown a lack of effort in tackling concerns over staffing in Shetland and said a “public campaign” was now …

Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky is to become chairman of the Royal Mail, it was confirmed on Friday, a month after taking parent International Distribution Services private in a £3.6bn deal. The tycoon is joining the IDS board as a non-executive, along with three other directors, becoming chair of both. He …

LESS THAN a third of first-class mail is delivered on time in Shetland, figures released by Consumer Scotland show. Current Ofcom guidelines require Royal Mail to make 93 per cent of first-class deliveries to all postcodes in Scotland within one working day. But in Shetland the success rate sits at …

(Undated)–With today (Monday) being Memorial Day, it is a federal holiday.  City, state and federal offices, as well as public buildings and public schools are all closed today.  In addition, U.S. Postal Service offices will be closed today so there will be no mail delivery and retail services are not …

ROYAL Mail has been accused of ignoring a growing crisis in Shetland, with postal staff leaving “in droves” due to low pay and extremely pressured working conditions. A quarter of postie jobs in Shetland are vacant, with four workers quitting in April alone. That has meant some remaining staff are …

Canada Post workers on strike in Ontario in November 2024 The following statement was sent to the World Socialist Web Site by Daniel Berkley, a leading member of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Canada), in response to a statement issued by the Deutsche Post Action Committee earlier this month. That …

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 …