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Management gets extra points too for announcing the ploy just as many households begin to think about writing this year’s batch of Christmas cards. According to a recent analysis by The Telegraph, a first-class stamp is now so expensive that it would be cheaper to fly to some European cities …

‘What’s a pen pal’ queried one of my offspring this week – peering over the top of a school book. Born into a world of email, text and other online messaging – the concept of writing regular letters to people you may have never have met was somewhat intriguing. Royal …

Such a fate would greatly undermine the core purpose of the service. As the Greetings Card Association warns, the proposals appear to take the country “one step closer to the dismantling of a postal service that’s affordable and reliable”.  Some would say it stopped being either of those things some time …

When’s the last time you bought a postage stamp? Granted, to do that you have to locate a post office which will probably be at the back of an off licence, past piles of confectionery, rather than in one of the handsome municipal buildings where they were once to be …

End of the line: a Royal Mail freight train crosses the River Esk at Mossband, Cumbria Credit: alamy. SIR – Royal Mail's announcement of the end of … Source link

Pat Tillman is an American hero. He was also the absolute nailed-down epitome of service and duty. A man who gave up his $3.6 million contract as a professional NFL football star to serve his country in war as an $18,000-a-year Army Ranger. A man who so intensely understood the …

I feared I might not get much sleep on Sunday night. You’d think I’d have learnt by now, but I painted myself into the corner of having to stay in Barcelona, and knew the city would erupt into noise, loud music and fireworks all night. The last time I was …

Dear readers, to those who have quite rightly concluded in this silliest of silly seasons that the country is going to the dogs, apologies. It is time for a new metaphor of decline; Britain is for the birds. And I’m not even referring to Swiftmania; if only our ills really …

The potential for asset sales should be a genuine concern too. Both Royal Mail shareholders and experts believe Kretinsky could be getting his hands on one of the biggest corporate property portfolios in Europe – an estate of prime sites situated in towns up and down the country – on …

What do Beatrix Potter and Jeremy Clarkson have in common? Both are susceptible to the charm of pigs – Potter’s Tale of Pigling Bland describes an intrepid young piglet’s escape from slaughter, a fate that Clarkson’s Oxford Sandy & Blacks do not avoid. The unlikely pair are also united by …