Last week, the annual British Social Attitudes survey found that public satisfaction with the NHS had dropped to its lowest level on record, with fewer than one in four happy with the service. The public’s unhappiness was driven by GP and dental practices but reflected across all services. New data …
Read More »Royal Mail delivers card 27 years after it was posted
Her plea reached Ms Meleyal, who now lives in Hull, who said she “was shocked but pleased as punch that someone was thinking of me all that time ago”. “At first I thought it was a joke but when I got the letter I was excited and when I found …
Read More »Royal Mail delivery worker explains: “The Communication Workers Union is facilitating a race to the bottom”
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with Ian, a member of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) in the south Midlands, England, about the decimation of conditions for frontline workers at Royal Mail delivery offices. The interview was conducted prior to Wednesday’s announcement of Royal Mail proposals to reduce the …
Read More »Royal Mail wrongly fines customer over ‘counterfeit’ stamp that is genuine
Royal Mail has wrongly slapped a customer with a counterfeit stamp charge for a GENUINE stamp. Royal Mail has admitted to incorrectly branding a genuine first-class stamp as “counterfeit”, as the investigation and probe continues. It told GB News: “Royal Mail takes the illegal production of counterfeit stamps seriously. Since …
Read More »Small businesses and greetings card firms blast ‘drastic’ Royal Mail plan to end daily second class deliveries and cut the 85p-a-letter service to five times a fortnight
Royal Mail has come under fire from small businesses and greetings card firms over plans to slash daily second-class letter deliveries. The company revealed plans yesterday to scrap the deliveries on Saturdays and cut the service to just five times every two weeks. But critics including the Federation of Small Businesses …
Read More »Royal Mail warns it ‘will not survive’ without changes – full letter to customers
Royal Mail has written to customers explaining major changes it has proposed amid “huge financial pressure”. The postal delivery service has warned that it “will not survive without urgent reform” to its operation. This morning Royal Mail revealed plans it has put forward to the industry watchdog Ofcom, proposing to …
Read More »Five-bedroom mansion once owned by mastermind of £70m Royal Mail fraud can be yours for £2.75million – and you’ll have Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne for neighbours too
A five-bedroom mansion once owned by a scammer who fleeced the Royal Mail out of £70million has gone up for sale after being seized. Complete with a detached pool house, the sprawling property is the former home of Narinder Sandhu, 62, who used the proceeds of an elaborate postage scam to buy …
Read More »Royal Mail warns of jobs chop under plans to scrap second-class deliveries on Saturdays
ROYAL MAIL has warned that up to 1,000 jobs could be axed under plans to scrap second-class letter deliveries on Saturdays. In its submission to a consultation on the future of the universal postal service (USO) by industry regulator Ofcom, the privatised company also proposes to cut the service to …
Read More »Why Royal Mail’s second class post shake-up won’t save it from losses
In a further headache, Royal Mail risks another clash with unions after bruising strikes last year that cost the company £1m a day. The changes are expected to cut the number of delivery routes by up to 9,000 – a move that is expected to lead to around 1,000 redundancies. …
Read More »Royal Mail faces a reckoning with a public it holds in contempt
If you’ve ever rummaged through a box of old postcards at an antiques fair, you might have noticed not only the quaint images from the 1890s or 1900s, but the extraordinary messages on the back: “Dear Cissie, Elsie and I will come for tea today. Will arrive about 4.30. Yours, …
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