A cleaning company based in Newbury has donated 50 USB memory sticks to the town’s talking newspaper. Kennet Cassette is a free voluntary service which has provided blind and visually impaired people with audio recordings of extracts from the Newbury Weekly News for nearly 50 years. Managing Director Andre Gottemaker …
Read More »Management changes and backlog cleared at Thatcham Sorting Office, says Royal Mail
Royal Mail has said the backlog at Thatcham Sorting Office has been cleared. Earlier this year a Thatcham councillor said the least Royal Mail should do is apologise after the town became what he called a ‘letter free zone’. Missed hospital appointments and late wedding invitations were the consequences of …
Read More »CWU ‘deliberately holding Christmas to ransom’ says Royal Mail amid queues at Thatcham sorting office
Royal Mail is feeling the pressure as queues line up outside Thatcham’s sorting office ahead of the festive period. A number of people were at the sorting office on Station Road today (Thursday). Thatcham resident Philip Williams said he had been waiting three weeks before some ‘important mail’ fell through …
Read More »Residents say Royal Mail should have made ‘contingency plans’
Many households in and around Newbury and Thatcham have been missing out on vital letters due to postal worker sickness absences. The Royal Mail have admitted it hasn’t had “enough boots on the ground” following on from the Christmas period, as reported in this weeks Newbury Weekly News. A nearly …
Read More »Thatcham resident calls Royal Mail service ‘disastrous’ after hospital appointment letters ‘stuck in the postal system’
Not receiving letters has meant some residents have had to take their mail matters into their own hands, from visiting sorting offices to pick up post to managing their own appointments and bookings. Thatcham resident Dorothy Le-Cornu hasn’t been receiving her mail on time since mid-December and hasn’t received any …
Read More »Royal Mail have “not enough boots on the ground” in Newbury and Thatcham
Royal Mail has explained why some residents of Newbury and Thatcham may be experiencing delivery disturbances since New Year’s Day. In addition to limited deliveries over the Christmas and New Year period, the past few weeks saw continued delivery delays as members of Royal Mail staff fell ill. After receiving …
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