ROYAL Mail has issued an update after a blaze broke out at Hereford’s Station Approach sorting office this morning. Emergency services were on scene earlier today after the fire took hold in a number of vehicles in the sorting office car park. ALSO READ: Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Two crews …
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These mesmerising photos unveil the secret postal railway system that functioned beneath Birmingham’s streets for many years. The spooky 400m-long tunnel was utilised by Royal Mail employees to shift deliveries between a sorting office and New Street Station. Constructed in 1970, it allowed electric trucks to haul cages brimming with …
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Royal Mail has apologised to customers experiencing slow deliveries in Llandudno. Last week, Aberconwy MS Janet Finch-Saunders said “whistleblowers” had said letters – including for NHS appointments – weren’t being delivered on time from Llandudno’s sorting office. The MS even claimed some customers were being told to collect their own …
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It was no surprise that Andrew Farnsworth got a first class send off. For 40 years he was a dedicated and much-loved Royal Mail worker. He joined at the age of 15 as a cadet and did everything from postman, working in the sorting office, and driving a 7.5 tonne …
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