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Two Essex towns will not receive post from Royal Mail due to ‘local issues’. Royal Mail say they hope to deliver to all addresses they have mail for 6 days a week – Monday to Saturday. However, in some local offices, deliveries can be delayed with some towns without post …

A Zoom meeting of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee on Sunday delivered a powerful answer to the propaganda by Communication Workers Union (CWU) officials who are insisting “there is no alternative” to accepting their pro-company agreement with Royal Mail and that a no vote will result in “mutual destruction”. Sunday’s …

A Russian master hacker who claims to have cut off his own finger after losing a bet has been slapped with a $10m (£8m) bounty by US officials. Mikhail Matveev, 30, of Kaliningrad, was accused on Tuesday of being one of the leading members of the Hive, LockBit and Babuk …

R oyal Mail will be investigated by the industry watchdog Ofcom after it failed to meet its delivery targets during the past year. The postal service delivered only 73.7 per cent of First Class mail within one day, well short of its 93 per cent target. Ofcom said it would …

It never rains but it pours for Royal Mail, which is now under investigation by Ofcom over its failure to meet delivery targets. Yesterday, Royal Mail announced that it did not meet its performance targets in 2022/23, which included a period of industrial dispute and 18 days of strike …

The World Socialist Web Site has received further write-ins from postal workers around the UK speaking out against the ramped-up exploitation being enforced through cost cutting revisions agreed between the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Royal Mail. Mounting anger against these sweatshop conditions is fuelling intense opposition to the CWU’s …

Royal Mail is facing a major investigation by an industry watchdog after failing to meet its delivery targets over the past year.   The British postal giant fell short of its performance targets across the 2022 to 2023 financial year for first and second class mail and deliveries, following 18 days …

R egulator Ofcom said it has launched an investigation into Royal Mail’s failure to meet its delivery targets in the past year – and could hand out a fine. The British delivery firm fell short of its performance targets across the 2022 to 2023 financial year for first and second …

The following resolution was unanimously adopted by a meeting of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee on Sunday May 14. The vote followed a wide-ranging discussion among postal workers in attendance from across the UK, from delivery, processing, and Parcelforce. A report on the meeting will be published in the coming …

The figures follow revelations in the Telegraph last week that “postal deserts” had sprung up across the country, leaving households starved of deliveries for up to a fortnight. Grant McPherson, Royal Mail operating chief said: “We’re sorry to any customers who may have been impacted by our performance during a …