[ad_1] Anyone who buys stamps can expect to pay slightly more for them from the beginning of next month, which is only a few days away. From April 3, the price of first and second-class Royal Mail stamps will rise by up to 16 percent – the most they’ve ever jumped up in price. It’s…
[ad_1] The Socialist Equality Party (UK) and the World Socialist Web Site will be hosting an online meeting of rank-and-file postal workers next Monday, March 27, at 7pm to discuss taking forward the fight against attacks on living standards and working conditions, and the victimisation of their colleagues. Register for the meeting here. Royal Mail…
[ad_1] A Quedgeley butcher and deli which was forced to close due to rising utility costs and overheads has good news for its customers. Following a conversation with a customer talking about the large customer base and social media following, the owners decided to reopen a smaller and scaled back business to serve their regulars….
[ad_1] Royal Mail has come under attack from a group of MPs, who have accused the company of failing to deliver letters six days a week, and prioritising parcel deliveries. The MPs, from the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee (EIS), said the company had “systematically failed to deliver” letters from Monday-Saturday, putting it in…
[ad_1] The World Socialist Web Site continues to receive a steady stream of correspondence from postal workers over the back-breaking increases in workloads demanded by Royal Mail. They are also speaking out against the Communication Workers Union (CWU) enforcing the cost cutting exercise of revisions by the company and the betrayal of the fight they…
[ad_1] A well used Post Office is to re-open – after months of being closed. Milton Road Post Office shut in January when the McColls store where the branch was based closed. Now a new independent postmaster has been appointed to run the branch at the same location. The new post office will open on…
[ad_1] The CWU has described the week ahead as “critical to the outcome” of its long-running dispute with Royal Mail, with a series of pay for change proposals aimed at stabilising the business now on the table. The union issued an update to members on Friday (17 March), after the BEIS select committee of…
[ad_1] LONDON Alamy Photo Britain’s Royal Mail has “systemically failed” to meet its mail delivery requirement, lawmakers have said, calling upon regulator Ofcom to probe the postal operator. class=’cf’> “We believe that Royal Mail has systemically failed to deliver against parts of its universal service obligation,” read a report from the cross-party Business, Energy and…
[ad_1] ROYAL MAIL’S referral to regulators for failing to deliver letters six days a week is “vindication of why staff have lost total confidence” in the firm’s leadership, a union leader said today. Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Dave Ward welcomed the business, energy and industrial strategy committee’s decision to refer the strike-hit privatised…
[ad_1] MPs have referred Royal Mail to the communications watchdog for not delivering letters across the country six days a week. The company was accused of having “systematically failed to deliver” its universal service obligation in a report by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee. The scathing document also suggested Royal Mail chief…