Tag Archives: Royal Mail

Royal Mail is agitating to end Saturday deliveries as it hits customers with yet another increase in the price of First Class stamps.  The move would fundamentally change the 500-year-old postal service, which is currently obligated to deliver letters to every address six days a week. There are fears that …

In a letter to the Business Select Committee in June, he wrote: “The ability to send and receive letters and parcels is important both socially and economically. This is particularly true for consumers who might be more vulnerable.” Ofcom will publish evidence later in the year on how demand is …

A man in his 40s has been hospitalised with serious injuries following a crash on the A30. The crash involved a red Royal Mail truck and a red Bateman agricultural crop sprayer at around 8.10pm on Friday, August 25. Officers from Devon and Cornwall Police were first alerted to the …

The future of the Royal Mail has been cast into doubt after new figures showed that it is failing to meet delivery targets for any postcode in Britain. Industry experts believe the company – which was partially privatised in 2013 before being sold off completely two years later – is …

A Royal Mail lorry driver was today jailed for four years after he wasted his sleep breaks on a nightshift to watch videos then nodded off at the wheel and killed a grandfather. Stefan-Alexandru Bloj was on his first ever night shift for the postal service and had only three …

This exclusivity, which dated back to the spin-off of the Post Office in 2012, ended under the terms of a new partnership signed in 2020, which allowed the company to open up its network to other providers. The Post Office has since also struck click and collect deals with Amazon …

The bizarre closure of Royal Mail postboxes in a Cornish village has been branded “daft” and “inconvenient”. A Marazion business owner contacted Royal Mail about the unusual closure of a postbox after a metal telecomms pole was installed nearby – only for another to close days later because snails keep …

Last week the World Socialist Web Site wrote to Charles Falconer, a partner at law firm Gibson Dunn, requesting information about the legal review he is heading into the sacking and suspension of hundreds of union reps and other postal workers during the Royal Mail dispute. The Falconer Review was …

Six workers remain sacked from Royal Mail’s Prenton Delivery Office in the Wirral. Eleven posties were initially suspended for taking their legally entitled tea breaks at two local pubs. Their treatment is part of a wave of company victimisations, with reports confirming that Royal Mail is targeting workers to enforce …

We live in one of the most beautiful parts of the UK. So getting out and about in our countryside, whilst also enjoying plenty of exercise, working for the Royal Mail is a relatively attractive proposition. The popularity and convenience of online shopping isn’t fading – our posties are being …