Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) has acquired the presort business of Royal Alliances, strengthening its Presort Services network across the East, Central, and West Regions. The acquisition, effective January 20, is expected to add over 100 million First-Class Mail pieces annually to Pitney Bowes’ network, which currently …
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Postal workers have called on the Government to investigate Royal Mail senior leadership over the “fake deliveries” scandal. The Telegraph reported earlier this week that postmen and women claimed Royal Mail managers were telling them to record some parcel deliveries as “inaccessible”, even if they never attempted to deliver the …
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These are tough times for believers in privatisation. The travails of the privatised water companies, particularly Thames Water, don’t need to be repeated this close to Christmas – no one wants to be put off their festive lunch with details of raw sewage pumped into rivers by over-paid executives. And …
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London CNN Business — Britain is bracing for further disruption from strikes heading into the Christmas period, as ambulance drivers and nurses join rail operators and postal workers in the worst wave of walkouts the country has endured for at least a decade. More than 20,000 ambulance workers, including paramedics …
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London CNN Business — Britain’s cost-of-living crisis is already taking the shine off Black Friday. Now, the annual shopping bonanza faces an additional threat from strikes that could disrupt deliveries, subdue online sales and deliver another blow to the slumping economy. Some 235,000 workers have gone on strike across the …
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London CNN Business — UK postal service Royal Mail (ROYMY) said Friday that it could cut 6,000 jobs as it warned of a big loss this year, which it blamed on a wave of strikes and a decline in its parcel delivery business. About 110,000 Royal Mail staff went on …
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