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The Emergency Flooding Payment Scheme has been activated in Northern Ireland after Storm Bert brought flooding across the region on Saturday. The Department of Infrastructure’s Roads and Rivers Teams have been responding to over 500 incidents since the yellow weather warning for Storm Bert came in last night. They say …

Shares plunged 14.92% on Thursday. Meanwhile, the group behind Royal Mail has warned it cannot rule out job cuts or price hikes in the face … Source link

Communication Workers Union (CWU) leaders Dave Ward and Martin Walsh issued a statement Wednesday calling on postal workers to get behind their “engagement plan” and establish a “favourable outcome” in Royal Mail’s takeover by billionaire Daniel Kretinsky. Ward and Walsh described the £3.5 billion takeover by Kretinsky’s EP Group in …

Royal Mail has signalled potential further increases in stamp prices following a £120million national insurance impact from the recent Budget. Martin Seidenberg, the chief of Royal Mail’s owning company, has also not dismissed the possibility of additional job cuts due to the rising costs. “We are looking at all areas …

Management gets extra points too for announcing the ploy just as many households begin to think about writing this year’s batch of Christmas cards. According to a recent analysis by The Telegraph, a first-class stamp is now so expensive that it would be cheaper to fly to some European cities …

An inquest has been opened into the death of a Plymouth man who died while on holiday in Germany. The passing of 64-year-old Peter Cullen was recorded at a public hearing on November 18 by area coroner Alison Longhorn at Exeter County Hall, now the main coroner’s court for Devon, …

Royal Mail’s top brass has signalled potential further stamp price increases following a £120million National Insurance escalation as a result of the Budget. Martin Seidenberg, the head honcho of the postal behemoth’s parent company, has not dismissed additional job cuts due to the rising expenses. “We are looking at all …

Royal Mail has warned stamp prices will rise AGAIN due to a £120 million hit from the Labour Party Budget. The boss of the postal service told reporters this morning that he could not rule out hiking stamp prices even higher. It comes as it faced the enormous burden of …

By Yadarisa Shabong (Reuters) -The parent firm of Britain’s Royal Mail warned of a worsening cost environment following last month’s budget and said it could not rule out price hikes and higher automation as it looks to cut costs after returning to a first-half profit. International Distribution Services, which owns …

Royal Mail said it was on track to return to profit for the full year once the cost of redundancies is removed from its balance sheet. However, bosses warned that reform to Royal Mail’s universal service obligations, which include a requirement to deliver letters six days a week, was even …