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Around a third of the UK’s 1,400 delivery offices have introduced geomapping technology to redraw postal routes, which has also “caused some problems,” explains Mark Baulch, assistant secretary at the Communication Workers’ Union, which represents almost 200,000 members. Those in charge are typically in an office, hundreds of miles away …

A spokesman said: “We are providing targeted support to the local offices affected by these issues and we apologise to customers for any inconvenience they may have experienced. “Our postmen and women are continuing to work incredibly hard, as they have done throughout the pandemic, and we are thankful for …

Texts claiming to be from Royal Mail were lighting up my phone screen every other day, asking me to pay an extra fee for a missed delivery. Source link

She also recently founded Welfare for Healthcare, an initiative to support communities during the Covid pandemic. Ms Colston was as pleased as her husband to be addressed in such complimentary terms. “She thought it was very amusing and was happy for me to tweet it,” said Dr Inge. “I’m all …

SIR – The Health Security Agency UK tells us some two million lateral flow and PCR tests are performed each day and just under 200,000 of these are positive for Covid. That’s 10 per cent of the tests undertaken. Of people with positive tests, 2,200 (1.1 per cent) go to …

As the pandemic continued to turn the norm upside down in 2021, the world became even more dependent on technology. Consumers now don’t think twice about relying on apps to deliver groceries, invest chunks of money or prove their Covid status for travel and even work. The year spawned previously …

The Duchess of Sussex has agreed “financial remedies” with the Mail on Sunday newspaper, bringing to an end a bitter, three-year legal battle. The Sunday newspaper printed a statement on its front page acknowledging that the Duchess had won her copyright infringement claim after the paper and the Mail Online …

Judges have been told to refer to postmen as “postal operatives” in a push for the court system to use gender-neutral language. The Equal Treatment Bench Book, most recently revised this month by the Judicial College, provides guidance to judges to ensure defendants, victims and witnesses are handled fairly. It …

Arrival was launched by Russian entrepreneur Denis Sverdlov and was largely self-funded from his personal $500m venture fund Kinetik until investment in 2020 by BlackRock and Fidelity. Sverdlov had founded several internet companies in the 2000s, before briefly becoming deputy communications minister under Vladimir Putin’s prime minister Dmitry Medvedev in …

Andrew Lloyd Webber has decided to shut down Cinderella, his latest musical, until February at the earliest, blaming “this wretched virus” for putting paid to “the joy of entertaining audiences”. Covid also forced the cancellation of the Royal Opera House’s Christmas ballet, Nutcracker, until the New Year, with reports suggesting …