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An MP has called for urgent action to improve postal services after Royal Mail was fined £21 million. Chris Ward, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, made the call after Ofcom fined Royal Mail for failing to meet its delivery targets. The postal service was found to have breached its …

Postal services in Europe and around the world plan to halt shipping merchandise to the U.S. as the Trump administration’s end of the de minimus tariff exemption goes into effect. The de minimus exemption allowed international carriers to ship goods valued under $800 to the U.S. without paying any duties. …

Postal services in Europe will halt parcel shipments to the United States as new tariffs on goods valued under $800 take effect at the end of the month. U.S. President Donald Trump last month scrapped a long-standing tax exemption on the import of low value goods known as “de minimis” from Aug. …

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp resigned abruptly late Friday in protest against the government’s reluctance to impose tougher sanctions against Israel over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. 48 MINS ago 2 mins read Source link

A south Essex MP has provided an update after frustrations over “infrequent and delayed” postal services. David Burton-Sampson, MP for Southend West and Leigh, had expressed his dissatisfaction with the recent postal service disruptions in his constituency. He had a meeting with Royal Mail at the end of July, after which …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …