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Given that there are no signs of online shopping slowing down any time soon – our posties are being kept busier than ever. Delivering our packages and letters, Royal Mail staff were rightly classed as key workers during the pandemic and gave some businesses the lifeline to keep going without …

A set of special stamps are being issued to celebrate 65 years of Paddington Bear. ADVERTISEMENT The marmalade-loving Peruvian bear will feature on six postal stamps taken from Ivor Wood’s cartoons, which were originally published in the London Evening News in the late 1970s as the character became a star …

Royal Mail customers can take advantage of a big change in delivery options. The new service will be available to those people who use the Royal Mail App. The new service means customers can now set up a safe place delivery preference in the Royal Mail app for all future …

The trial involving a £70m fraud against Royal Mail has come to an abrupt end after a dramatic change of plea. It involved an alleged fraud carried out over more than a decade by connected mailing and logistics businesses, with the perpetrators accused of manipulating docket spreadsheets on the …

Royal Mail has announced it will be changing the parcel delivery options which will help to keep them more safe and secure. The postal service will soon allow customers who have the Royal Mail app to choose a designated ‘safe space’ for their mail to be left if they aren’t …

Postal workers have contacted the World Socialist Web Site to share their views in response to last week’s article, “Royal Mail’s new regime: PDAs used to sack workers for tea break at local pub.” Six workers remain sacked from Prenton DO in the Wirral. Eleven posties were initially suspended for …

Post Office officials have been urged to ensure the withdrawal of services from five Exmoor villages is as short-lived as possible. Current outreach facilities provided by the Dulverton postmaster are due to cease on October 1st, leaving villagers in Brompton Regis, Oakford, West Anstey, Rackenford and Hawkridge with no access …

Three companies who fleeced Royal Mail of at least £70million over ten years have changed pleas just one week into their trial. Millions of pounds were pocketed in the fraud, which involved the under-declaration of mail that was posted through a network of logistics companies in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. On …

Work is being done to improve an “awful” Royal Mail service in the Yeovil area as the local MP declares “we need action fast”. Residents in parts of Yeovil and the surrounding villages have become exasperated by infrequent post in recent months. Some locals claim there have been occasions where …

Staff at a Stoke-on-Trent Royal Mail office have paid tribute to a much-loved colleague by naming their new building in his honour. Steve Cooper, of Chesterton, died unexpectedly in March last year of a massive heart attack, leaving his family, friends and colleagues devastated. The 62-year-old, who had three children …