Tag Archives: Royal Mail

Royal Mail has finally opened a scheme that will let you swap out current stamps before new barcoded versions are rolled out. The postal giant announced that millions of its so-called “definitive” stamps featuring the portrait of the Queen will become worthless after January 2023. They will be replaced by …

April is a month of financial change bringing with it energy price hikes, a rise to benefits delivered by both the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), increases to the National Living Wage, Council Tax and National Insurance Contribution deductions. But there’s a lot …

The elderly could be left out of pocket and isolated by an impending shake up of the postal system, campaigners have warned. First-class stamp prices will rise by 10p to 95p while second-class ones by 2p to 68p, as of next week. The previously state-run institution is also phasing out …

Tomorrow the energy cap is set to be increased at a time where people have already noticed a change in their energy bills. In addition to this, food shopping is said to have increased too with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) stating that the cost of a pint of …

Royal Mail has rolled out its first fully-automated parcel sorting machine (PSM) in Wales. The new machinery has been installed at the postal service’s Cardiff Mail Centre. The installation is part of Royal Mail’s multi-million pound investment programme to replace significant manual sorting processes to help the company meet the …

R oyal Mail is being warned it could be hit by strikes over plans to cut managers’ jobs. Unite said the company is aiming to sack nearly 1,000 managers and bring in lower rates of pay in another case of “fire and rehire”, which Royal Mail denies. The union is …

Shares in Royal Mail (LON:RMG) are currently trading at 355.3p but a key question for investors is how ongoing economic uncertainty will affect the price. One way of making that assessment is to examine where its strengths lie… The Royal Mail share price has moved by -31.9% over the past three months. In …

A man is fighting to prove he exists after being WIPED from official records in an address change row. Frustrated Graeme Smith, from Paisley, has been left in limbo after a change in the format of his flat number led to issues with credit agencies and the electoral roll. But …

A House of Lords report has highlighted concerns that the police use of advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence – AI – could undermine people’s human rights and the rule of law. The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee has revealed that the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence tools …

There are a number of important rule changes set to come into force next month. Laws on things such as minimum and living wage will be altered from the end of this week with changes to Scotland’s Covid rules also set to come into force before the end of April. …