Tag Archives: Royal Mail

A scammer sent thousands of people fake Royal Mail texts requesting a ‘settlement’ fee for their parcel to be delivered. Mohammed Gulzar was caught with a ‘smishing’ kit when police raided his home in Birmingham. The 22-year-old university student duped at least one elderly woman and spent more than £2,500 …

UK postal workers have written in to outline their crippling workloads and Royal Mail’s trashing of its statutory obligation to deliver six days a week. Increased walks and impossible targets are being enforced by management intimidation and use of overtime to clear back logs, forcing postal workers into a longer …

Residents have said they’re “not happy” at a post office being downsized in an Essex town. In West Mersea, the main post office closed on Friday, June 9, to be replaced with a new ‘local service’ branch inside the Premier Mersea Island Supermarket. While the new branch offers longer opening …

Thefts of post boxes have been reported in eight places in Cambridgeshire. Cambridgeshire Police had asked members of the public to contact them with any information. A Cambridgeshire Police spokesperson said thefts have been reported in Ramsey, Huntingdon, Old Hurst, Wistow, Ely, Aldreth, Wilburton, and Haddenham. They said: “We’re asking …

A Scottish postman was not racially discriminated against by an English colleague who told him “I can’t understand you” –  because he was just talking too fast, an employment tribunal has ruled. Pete McCalam accused Royal Mail manager Alan Wiggs of being a “little bit racist” because he repeatedly told …

Royal Mail has issued a warning to its customers over extra charges due to a stamp change. The postal company introduced barcoded stamp which will replace traditional ones, which will see the latter soon to be no longer valid. Originally, Royal Mail gave a deadline of January 31 for customers …

Postal workers have continued to write-in from across the UK, exposing punishing revisions to terms and conditions being imposed by Royal Mail with the complicity of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) leadership. Postal workers are demanding action against CWU leaders Dave Ward and Andy Furey for pulling the ballot of …

A new-style Post Office will open in an Essex town tomorrow (June 14), a week after the closure of the current branch. The West Mersea Post Office is being changed into a new-style Post Office Local service with a post office serving point inside a convenience store. The previous branch …

People have been warned to use up old stamps before the deadline next month or risk a surcharge when sending post. Royal Mail began rolling out stamps with barcodes in February last year, in a bid to completely replace all the old versions that didn’t have a barcode attached. The …

On 13 June 1920, the United States banned the sending of people by parcel post after a number of instances and a previous unsuccessful attempt to outlaw the bizarre practice It’s fairly common for a new invention to take a little while to iron out its kinks – but one …