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Royal Mail said it was on track to return to profit for the full year once the cost of redundancies is removed from its balance sheet. However, bosses warned that reform to Royal Mail’s universal service obligations, which include a requirement to deliver letters six days a week, was even …

Such savings would require card senders to seek out specific deals, Skyscanner said. Flights from Luton to Belgrade, Serbia, can cost as little as £33. The cost of sending 100 Christmas cards abroad from the Serbian capital is just £78 – less than half the cost of first-class postage via …

A Black Horse spokesman said: “We are required to acknowledge every complaint that we receive. Currently, the best way to do this quickly is to issue a letter back to the claims management company, so it can be easily forwarded on. “However, we always recommend that customers contact us directly …

Airline bosses have launched a crackdown on passengers who hover around the departure gate in a bid to board their flight before they are given the green light by airport staff. Nicknamed “gate lice” by industry insiders, such pushy passengers have become an increasing irritant for carriers as travel demand …

Delivery giant Evri has been named the UK’s worst parcel distribution company for the second year running, with around one in two customers reporting a problem with its service. The courier, which rebranded from Hermes two years ago following a wave of parcel mishandling allegations, has been dogged by complaints over …

The new coat of arms will eventually appear on ministerial letters but existing stocks of paper will be used up first. Mr Noad said: “It has been a great privilege and an exciting challenge to provide the new artwork for the Royal Arms. “Having designed the Royal Cypher for HM …

A Telegraph investigation in April found Chinese factories were offering to flood Britain with forged stamps in what security experts described as an “act of economic warfare”.  The data log, obtained under Freedom of Information laws, shows the Post Office recorded 27 accusations that postmasters were selling fake stamps between …

The documentary that built the mystique of the Royal Mail's night-time rail service contains almost as much fiction as fact. Source link

Just possibly all is not lost. Maggie Simpson, director general of the Rail Freight Group, the umbrella organisation for the industry, reckons several companies may be interested in carrying mail: “I am optimistic that some of this traffic will eventually find its way back. Rail has so many advantages, notably …

Prof Mariarosaria Taddeo, an Oxford University academic specialising in the ethics of defence technologies, told Politico: “It’s not a problem if AI is used to support decision-making, but the question is if it is used to support decision-making or if the AI is adopted without any critical thinking.” She added: …