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People in Anstey are set to see their post office reopen months after it closed. The former branch shut in March, but the service has now moved to a new location less than 100m down the Bradgate Road. It will now be homed in the Londis store at the Nook …

Royal Mail workers could be asked to check up on vulnerable residents during rounds, despite some postal staff relying on foodbanks and struggling to make ends meet themselves. The scheme will be trialled in Northumberland, with Royal Mail’s chief executive telling The Times their “great, trusted teams see things that …

Unite Union has confirmed that managers at Royal Mail are now planning to go on strike this month. The union has confirmed dates when staff will stage walkouts across the country in July. The action has been called in response to plans for pay cuts, as well as the loss …

ROYAL MAIL managers are fighting back against “savage” plans to axe 700 jobs and slash pay by up to £7,000 by launching industrial action next week. Their union Unite announced today that following an overwhelming vote for strikes last month, 2,400 managers will engage in “work to rule” action, refusing to complete tasks …

Managers at Royal Mail will go on strike this months, Unite Union has said. Dates for the walkouts in July have now been confirmed by the union. The strike has been called in the wake of plans to slash pay by up to £7,000 and cut 700 jobs, Unite has …

R oyal Mail staff are set to go on strike later this month in a dispute over “further attacks on jobs and pay.” Unite, the managers’ trade union, says the industrial action will go ahead over Royal Mail’s plan to cut 700 jobs and cut pay by up to £7,000, …

ROYAL Mail workers in Belfast were attacked by dogs 50 times last year – the second-highest figure in the UK. Only Sheffield, with 51 reported attacks on postal workers, fared worse. Postmen and postwomen across the UK suffered 1,673 dog attacks between 2021 and 2022, new figures from the postal …

A shop owner believes it’s only a matter of time before someone is knocked down by a Royal Mail van that parks inches away from a her business every day. Shona Rattray, who is also a local councillor, owns a shop in Sibson Road. Birstall, where there are there are …

Royal Mail has accused Unite of misleading its members after more than 2,000 managers voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action, and action short of a strike. Unite said that some 2,400 Royal Mail managers working across more than 1,000 delivery offices had voted by 86% for strike action …

There can be no more vivid example of how dilapidated and dysfunctional the National Health Service is becoming than the news that postmen are to be deployed as makeshift care workers. Royal Mail Health, the branch of the postal service set up to deliver prescription medicine to homes during lockdown, …