Tag Archives: Royal Mail

People will be charged up to £3.50 to get their post when Royal Mail bans the use of traditional stamps. The postal service is introducing barcoded stamps next January and says it will not deliver letters and parcels bearing the old ones. They will be left at sorting offices with …

A man was left ‘disgusted’ after he saw a postman pushing his fragile parcel over a high gate on his home security camera. Michael Hamill, who lives in Harehills, Leeds with his wife Sara Shepherd believed the delivery bloke’s actions chipped the ‘irreplaceable’ ashtray inside. But the couple were left …

A postman has been caught on CCTV dropping a parcel over a man’s wall – even though the package was clearly marked as fragile. The £100 antiques inside, bought from eBay, have been left damaged and devalued. Michael Hamill said he was ‘disgusted’ by the actions of the delivery man …

Opening an unclaimed package with no return address resulted in a fleet of postmen working for the Royal Mail getting really high on Wednesday morning. The incident happened in Clapham, South London, where a bunch of postmen are being said to have accidentally eaten brownies laced with cannabis and then …

Eight new stamps celebrating the Queen’s dedication to service have been issued by the Royal Mail to mark the monarch’s Platinum Jubilee.  The new set features photographs of the monarch throughout the decades of her reign, illustrating the different facets of her official duties, from Trooping the Colour and walkabouts …

The longest mail round ever… In a video you can’t help but chuckle at it, a Royal Mail postman has to be picked up from his round after he can barely stand up – let alone walk – after accidentally eating weed brownies. The clip itself was originally posted on …

Britain’s postal service the Royal Mail announced on Tuesday that special barcodes will be added to its ordinary stamps, to improve mail processing but also allow people to send animated videos and messages to be sent to recipients. A pattern similar to a QR code will appear next to the …

Post Office workers caught a whiff of something suspicious coming from a parcel which they discovered was packed with cannabis. The smelly substance was detected by staff at the Swadlincote branch of the Post Office, near Ashby, earlier this week when sorting through packages for delivery. The parcel, which had …

Postman Pot! Royal Mail launch probe into video showing delirious looking Clapham posties staggering in street after ‘accidentally eating HASH BROWNIES’ they were unable to deliver to address Postmen stagger after they were said to have accidentally eaten hash brownies One postman can be heard telling colleagues that he consumed ‘four’ …

A Royal Mail worker who was seen taking photos up a schoolgirl’s skirt in a supermarket was handed a community order. Benjamin Harrison, 39, was spotted by staff at the Co-op store in Poynton leaning over and putting his phone near the child. After checking CCTV footage, they saw him …