LOCAL politicians are turning up the heat on bosses at Royal Mail over delays to deliveries which have affected homes and businesses across Inverclyde. The area’s MP, Martin McCluskey, and MP Stuart McMillan have both renewed their criticisms of the service after vital mail, including details of residents’ NHS appointments …
Read More »‘We don’t want to be the town without any post’
Delays to postal deliveries have caused concerns to Worcestershire residents with one man having to go to the sorting office to pick up his mail. One woman received her birthday cards a week after the event, in a bundle held together by an elastic band. Hospital appointments and other urgent …
Read More »Royal Mail issues service update after blaze at sorting office
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 …
Read More »Inside secret underground tunnels you’d never know run under Birmingham city centre
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 …
Read More »Royal Mail apologises over Llandudno delivery delays amid ‘sickness absence’
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 …
Read More »‘The fact there were 400 people at his funeral tells you what kind of bloke he was’
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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