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T he UK’s first drone delivery service has been launched in Orkney to provide residents with their mail. Royal Mail and Skyports Drone Services have launched Orkney I-Port to distribute letters and parcels between the islands. Mail will be transported from Royal Mail’s Kirkwall delivery office to Stromness. The drones …

Anyone sending letters with stamps have been warned that some are now worthless – and could end up costing you money. Now it is August, you can no longer use non-barcoded stamps, and you could face a surcharge if you do so. This means anyone with a stash of 1st …

Communication Workers Union (CWU) leaders Dave Ward and Andy Furey have publicly welcomed Martin Seidenberg as Group CEO of International Distribution Services, the parent company of Royal Mail. Less than two weeks after the CWU ended the year-long Royal Mail dispute, pushing through acceptance of their pro-company Business Recovery Transformation …

A 24-hour warning has been issued to anybody who owns Royal Mail stamps. Monday July 31 is the last day to use old Royal Mail stamps before a surcharge applies. From Tuesday, letters posted without barcodes will be treated as having “insufficient postage”. This means recipients will be forced to …

Letter senders have just hours to use old stamps before they expire at the start of a new month. After Monday, July 31, only new versions of Royal Mail stamps with barcodes will be considered valid. If you send a letter with a non-barcode stamp, you may be tacked with …

Royal Mail has warned that letters posted on Monday with an old-style stamp could incur an extra charge if they do not make final collection times. July 31 is the deadline to use stamps without barcodes. From Tuesday, letters posted without barcodes will be treated as having “insufficient postage”, meaning …

The Royal Mail has issued an urgent warning to all service users that if old stamps are used from tomorrow (Monday, July 31) then it’ll cost you £1.10. This is because the Royal Mail has added barcodes to its regular stamps, making its old ones out of date. The deadline …

Anyone still with an old-style stamp has only until tomorrow to use it, says Royal Mail. The traditional stamps will no longer be accepted after July 31 as the postal service completes the transition to the larger barcoded stamps which have been in circulation some time. But those who find …

Only two more days to use old barcoded stamps before they become invalid – as alcohol prices also set to rise on Tuesday in double whammy hit Stamps without barcodes will no longer be valid from tomorrow People who are stuck with now-useless stamps can exchange them for free By …

A Royal Mail lorry driver who fell asleep at the wheel and killed a grandfather has told a court he suffers from a ‘severe’ sleep condition. Stefan-Alexandru Bloj told jurors that since his 44-tonne HGV ploughed into the back of David Sullivan’s Citroen on a motorway he has been diagnosed …