[ad_1] 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. Royal Mail said the…
[ad_1] 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 character stamps are new…
[ad_1] 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 Aditya Soni [ad_2] Source…
[ad_1] 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 of 72p on top…
[ad_1] The Royal Mail is under pressure to offer free postage to and from care homes in the UK this Christmas. The calls from the Lib Dems come in a bid to ensure that no vulnerable person goes without love this Christmas. The move comes after An Post—Ireland’s postal service—announced it will carry letters, large envelopes,…
[ad_1] 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 it comes to letters….
[ad_1] 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 we have a fantastic…
[ad_1] 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 major infrastructure projects to…
[ad_1] Royal Mail has announced its latest recommended international posting dates for overseas destinations to ensure mail and parcels arrive in time for Christmas. With global coronavirus restrictions expected to be in place over the festive season, Royal Mail has provided a number of tips to ensure Christmas does go smoothly. With the indication that…
[ad_1] A supermarket customer was told her weekly shopping slot would be removed due to an influx of new shoppers. Susan Morris has relied on her Asda delivery every Friday afternoon for more than six years – and it was paramount during the coronavirus lockdown. But the 55-year-old said the supermarket giant has taken “the…