Tag Archives: Royal Mail

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has announced a five-week “mass engagement exercise” to ram through its pro-company “Business Recovery, Transformation and Growth Agreement” with Royal Mail. The postal ballot will run from June 22-July 11. CWU General Secretary Dave Ward and his deputy Andy Furey announced a revised ballot timetable …

An attempt by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) to smear the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on its coverage of the Royal Mail dispute and undermine its standing among postal workers has failed miserably. After the CWU Postal Executive twice suspended the ballot on its sellout deal with Royal Mail …

Royal Mail has announced its successful imposition of “the biggest revision ever in the history of this business” delivering a barely concealed tribute to Communication Workers Union (CWU) officials for “working together” to make the company competitive with Amazon. Royal Mail’s statement explodes the lying claims of Dave Ward and …

A scammer sent thousands of people fake Royal Mail texts requesting a ‘settlement’ fee for their parcel to be delivered. Mohammed Gulzar was caught with a ‘smishing’ kit when police raided his home in Birmingham. The 22-year-old university student duped at least one elderly woman and spent more than £2,500 …

UK postal workers have written in to outline their crippling workloads and Royal Mail’s trashing of its statutory obligation to deliver six days a week. Increased walks and impossible targets are being enforced by management intimidation and use of overtime to clear back logs, forcing postal workers into a longer …

Residents have said they’re “not happy” at a post office being downsized in an Essex town. In West Mersea, the main post office closed on Friday, June 9, to be replaced with a new ‘local service’ branch inside the Premier Mersea Island Supermarket. While the new branch offers longer opening …

Thefts of post boxes have been reported in eight places in Cambridgeshire. Cambridgeshire Police had asked members of the public to contact them with any information. A Cambridgeshire Police spokesperson said thefts have been reported in Ramsey, Huntingdon, Old Hurst, Wistow, Ely, Aldreth, Wilburton, and Haddenham. They said: “We’re asking …

A Scottish postman was not racially discriminated against by an English colleague who told him “I can’t understand you” –  because he was just talking too fast, an employment tribunal has ruled. Pete McCalam accused Royal Mail manager Alan Wiggs of being a “little bit racist” because he repeatedly told …

Royal Mail has issued a warning to its customers over extra charges due to a stamp change. The postal company introduced barcoded stamp which will replace traditional ones, which will see the latter soon to be no longer valid. Originally, Royal Mail gave a deadline of January 31 for customers …

Postal workers have continued to write-in from across the UK, exposing punishing revisions to terms and conditions being imposed by Royal Mail with the complicity of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) leadership. Postal workers are demanding action against CWU leaders Dave Ward and Andy Furey for pulling the ballot of …