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Maybe it’s from our English forebears, whose Royal Mail Service was started in 1516, that our nation’s founders were inspired to establish the U.S. Post Office, which they did definitively by making sure it was part of our federal Constitution (Article II, Sec. 8, #7). Since then, the U.S. Postal …

A young mum was alarmed when her little boy found a knife seemingly dumped or even hidden in Cheltenham town centre. The 27-year-old was walking with her six-year-old son at the lower end of the High Street when the boy went behind one of the trees in Poole way. The …

Around a third of the UK’s 1,400 delivery offices have introduced geomapping technology to redraw postal routes, which has also “caused some problems,” explains Mark Baulch, assistant secretary at the Communication Workers’ Union, which represents almost 200,000 members. Those in charge are typically in an office, hundreds of miles away …

A regular Royal Mail customer has compared the postal service to that of a ‘third world country’ following delays in getting deliveries. Mike McCusker claims the service has been declining since before Christmas. After being struck down with Covid-19 on January 8, he was confined to his home as he …

Traffic has been slowed up in the city centre by an anti-Covid restrictions protest on the first day after the government lifted most of Ireland’s lockdown measures. Dublin City Council have warned travellers heading into town to expect delays on O’Connell Street as the protest makes its way from the …

An urgent warning has been issued to the British public after the emergence of millions of scam messages. Consumer group Which? has warned that people should keep an eye out for “extremely convincing” scam texts that could steal your bank information and personal data. Variations of the same text have …

The Post Office says it ‘recognises that there is a need’ for a service in the south of Tamworth after a petition was launched by concerned residents. A new branch will open inside WH Smith in Ventura Park in February, however residents would also like one in the south of …

A staff sickness crisis at the Royal Mail has hit deliveries for more than 250,000 homes across the country.  During one week in January it was reported that up to 15,000 employees – nine per cent of the workforce – were off sick, severely impacting on the postal service. There …

A fresh warning has been issued to millions of people in the UK as criminals target the Post Office in a new fake text scam. Consumer watchdog group Which? said the scam uses a clone website to lure bank details off customers with thousands of reports being logged. It has …

Scammers are redirecting victims to the official Post Office website as part of an “extremely convincing” scam, consumer group Which? has warned. It said it has seen variations of texts claiming a parcel delivery has failed and asking recipients to click a link to book or reschedule a delivery. Clicking …