ROYAL OAK, Mich. – From Washington to Royal Oak — people rallied to demand Congress do something to protect the Post Office. People from all over Metro Detroit protested in Royal Oak Saturday. They said not only is the Post Office essential for democracy in November, but also to their …
Read More »Jerome Christenson: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…
In a dicey world, the post office is something we've come to trust. … Ben Franklin was put in charge of the Royal Mail in 1753, when the postal service … Source link
Read More »Cuts to postal service are not new to Canadians
The post office in Grenville, Québec. Photo: James Morgan Aug 16, 2020 — The United States Postal Service has been getting a lot of attention the past week, ever since Postmaster General Louis DeJoy embarked on a plan to slash the scope of operations and supposedly suppress the expedient circulation …
Read More »The UK's 500-year-old Royal Mail faces a world of 'more parcels and fewer letters' as it announces …
Royal Mail Group, the U.K.'s national mail carrier, will undergo a vast round of cost-cutting as it attempts to adapt to a world of “more parcels and fewer … Source link
Read More »Royal Mail may reduce postal services as more staff take sick leave | Business
Royal Mail has warned it may have to cut back on postal services as increasing numbers of its staff take sick leave. The company, which provides letter and parcel delivery services to 30m homes and businesses, said it had taken measures to limit contact in the workplace and with customers …
Read More »UK postal workers in plea for limit to non-essential deliveries | Business
Postal workers have called on Royal Mail and e-commerce sites to limit the amount of non-essential items they are being asked to deliver at a time when they are risking their health by turning up to work. Despite the UK government’s closure of non-essential retail outlets, e-commerce companies can continue …
Read More »Royal Mail does not have long to deliver real change
As the increasing dominance of passive investing demonstrates, share tipping is a mostly a mug’s game. Just ask the former Labour MP Adrian Bailey, who as chairman of the business select committee in 2014 published a scathing report on the privatisation of Royal Mail. According to Bailey and his colleagues, …
Read More »Post Office pension scheme plans buyout policy switch
The trustees of the Post Office section of the Royal Mail Pension Plan (RMPP) are planning on converting their buy-in policy with Rothesay Life into a buyout policy. In a letter, Communication Workers Union (CWU) assistant secretary, Andy Furley, detailed the trustees’ plan to move from a group insurance policy …
Read More »Socialist Party :: Post Office workers
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/30024 Posted on 17 December 2019 at 13:07 GMT photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge) Kevin Pattison and Ros Campbell Hundreds of former Post Office (PO) workers, whose lives were ruined after being falsely accused of committing fraud, finally had a modicum of justice after the …
Read More »First letter to Father Christmas discovered from girl requesting paints in 1895
The first recorded evidence of a British child’s letter to Santa Claus has emerged in time for Christmas. A newspaper cutting shows that the Post Office was able to “communicate” with Father Christmas in 1895 on behalf of a little girl who had asked for a box of paints. It …
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