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ROYAL Mail has said long-term staffing vacancies are making postal deliveries in Shetland “challenging”. Shetland News has been contacted by two individuals who have said they have been waiting days for parcels to be delivered, with these marked as being in “Glasgow” for four days at a time. It is …

POSTAL workers in Shetland are set to see their distant islands allowance more than double as part of a “significant victory”. The Communications Workers Union (CWU) said posties in Shetland would receive £2,500 per annum, up from £1,167, after negotiations with Royal Mail. It comes a week after Northern Isles …

24 August 2023, 17:30 Many postmen and women wear shorts all year round. Picture: Alamy Royal Mail posties have explained why they never wear trousers – come rain or shine. Ever noticed your local postie always seems to be wearing shorts? While some sport trousers in the rain or snow, …

To build support for a rejection of the sellout deal and to organise a centre of resistance to the Communication Workers Union’s collusion with Royal Mail, the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee will hold its next online meeting this Sunday, April 23, at 7pm. Register here to attend the meeting. [Photo: …

Friday marks the first of four days of stoppages by 115,000 postal workers. For the Communication Workers Union it is a dispute about pay. The union has rejected a 5.5% offer from management and insisted that its members must be protected from the ravages of inflation. On first look that …

Royal Mail is rolling out a new feature across the UK, offering photos taken by posties at the delivery address as confirmation of delivery for its customers using Royal Mail Tracked services*. The feature will give Royal Mail’s sending and receiving customers increased visibility of how and where mail is …

Opening an unclaimed package with no return address resulted in a fleet of postmen working for the Royal Mail getting really high on Wednesday morning. The incident happened in Clapham, South London, where a bunch of postmen are being said to have accidentally eaten brownies laced with cannabis and then …

Royal Mail has enhanced its popular Parcel Collect service in the run up to Christmas with posties set to deliver pre-printed postage labels to customers who need them. The move enables customers without a printer to feel the benefit of Parcel Collect, where posties collect parcels for delivery while carrying …

Royal Mail has enhanced its popular Parcel Collect service in the run up to Christmas with posties set to deliver pre-printed postage labels to customers who need them. The move enables customers without a printer to feel the benefit of Parcel Collect, where posties collect parcels for delivery while carrying …

R oyal Mail is set to deliver a bonus to posties and other shareholders after half-year results today included a £200 million special dividend. Other beneficiaries will include multibillionaire Daniel Kretinsky, known as the Czech Sphinx, who has built a 15% stake in the company. Royal Mail’s latest figures show …