CHILDREN can once again write to Santa for Christmas 2020 and get a response from the big man himself. It was 1963 when Royal Mail first started helping Father Christmas add some extra magic to children’s Christmas. 1 Father Christmas is once again responding to children’s letters in the postCredit: …
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A specialist East Yorkshire business has overseen the multi-million pound refit of a former South Atlantic ferry ready for its new role as a floating motor racing paddock. The former Island of St Helena Royal Mail ship is in the final stages of a transformation into an ultra-efficient floating hub …
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Royal Mail have launched a parcel collection service which will see parcels and mail collected from people’s homes reports the BBC. This comes as there has been an increase in online shopping – especially throughout the pandemic – and as Royal Mail are set to make a loss this year. …
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Royal Mail is set to release a new set of stamps to celebrate 50 years of the Star Trek TV and film franchise. The long-running space adventure has so far produced more than 780 TV episodes and 13 movies after its first broadcast in the UK in 1969. The main …
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Oct 21 (Reuters) – Royal Mail Plc, one of the world’s oldest postal companies, on Wednesday launched a new parcel pick-up service across Britain, in a move that would enable postmen and postwomen to collect and deliver parcels on their daily rounds. Reporting by Yadarisa Shabong in Bengaluru; Editing by …
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Royal Mail postal workers will for the first time collect parcels on the doorstep, in one of the biggest changes to the service as it adapts to the decline in letters and rapid growth in online shopping. From Wednesday customers across the UK will be able to pay a fee …
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Italy provides a more recent example. Despite being privatised after Royal Mail, in 2014, the business has flourished. Parcels are now delivered seven days a week. Since being floated it has overtaken, rather than fallen behind, its rivals. Royal Mail, meanwhile, is looking to shorten its current six-day delivery schedule when …
Read More »Royal Mail eyes PM’s £800m home Covid tests contract
The Government’s testing regime has come under pressure in recent weeks amid reports testing centres have been overwhelmed by demand. Mr Williams said: “[Moonshot] is an opportunity for Royal Mail to show what we can do after the rapid change of the postal market in 2020. “We have challenges, but …
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The University of Bristol’s new Temple Quarter campus could be delayed by up to five years without £150million of government help, an MP told Parliament. The warning came as four cross-party local MPs put their case directly to the housing minister for huge amounts of Whitehall cash for the city’s …
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