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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 …

TORY rightwinger Jacob Rees-Mogg declined an opportunity today to offer support to Britain’s postal workers. In a Commons session, Scottish Labour MP and former Parcelforce worker Hugh Gaffney asked Mr Rees-Mogg if he would “stand with the postal workers, who face a threat to their jobs, terms and conditions.” Mr Gaffney, who …

POSTIES are no longer delivering mail to a street in Helensburgh amid attacks by “aggressive” seagulls. Terrified staff have halted deliveries to a row of houses in the town after reports of injuries and posties staying in their van out of fear of the birds. 3 Seagulls have been terrorising …