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Royal Mail has admitted parts of the UK could still be experiencing a reduction in postal services due to higher volumes of mail during the lockdown, Covid-related staff absences and social distancing measures at delivery offices. Almost one in three people in Britain experienced a delay in sending or receiving …

As part of its latest efforts towards sustainable operations, has begun to roll out telemetry technology into an additional 11,000 small vans to encourage fuel efficient driving styles. It’s latest expansion will be harnessing ’s Telemetry system. With ambitions to complete the initiative later this year, Royal Mail details that …

People across the country could be asked to take a Covid test as part of a new plan to get the country out of lockdown, according to reports. The scheme would see tests sent to hundreds of thousands of homes across the country, and has provisionally been called ‘Are you …

A postman filmed saying he was too “knackered” to help a pensioner who slipped over in the snow has been suspended by the Royal Mail pending further investigation. Patricia Stewart, 72, had just been delivered two parcels when she fell from her doorstep and asked the Royal Mail worker to …

This is the ‘arrogant’ postman who claimed he was ‘too knackered’ to help a frail pensioner who fell in the snow. Thomas McCafferty has been suspended by the Royal Mail for refusing to assist Patricia Stewart, 72, when she lost her footing and fell down her icy front steps as …

The family of a pensioner who was left sprawling in her driveway by a postman say Royal Mail chiefs have ignored their complaints. Footage last week showed a Royal Mail postie refusing to help Patricia Stewart, 72, who had fallen outside her home near Falkirk in sub-zero temperatures Patricia, who …

The Royal Mail has apologised after a postman left a pensioner lying in the snow because he was too “knackered” to help. Patricia Stewart, who suffers from osteoporosis, slipped and banged her head on Wednesday as she bent over to pick up two parcels left on the doorstep of her …

‘I can’t help. I’m knackered’: Outrage as postman leaves vulnerable pensioner, 72, lying in the snow after she fell outside her front door Royal Mail postman left Patricia Stewart, 72, lying in snow after fall this week He told the pensioner he was ‘too knackered’ to pick her up in …

A teenager used Bitcoin to buy ecstasy tablets on the dark web from a supplier in Holland who sent them to him concealed in a DVD case. And after the package – which had Dylan Bailey’s name and address on it – was intercepted at the Royal Mail’s international logistics …

More than 16m people were left waiting for post in January as Royal Mail suffered staff crisis amid Covid-19 pandemic Nearly one in 20 households said they had not received a single item last month Citizens Advice survey showed households in London were worst the affected There was a 365% …