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Months after ministers said they would launch a national security probe into Royal Mail’s parent company, the group today confirmed there would be no further action. International Distributions Services (IDS), which changed its name from Royal Mail Group earlier this year, had faced potential intervention after the firm’s largest shareholder, …

Planned strikes by Royal Mail workers in the next two weeks have been called off following a challenge by the company. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are involved in a long running dispute over pay and conditions. A series of strikes have taken place in recent weeks and …

Following Queen Elizabeth ‘s death, a touching note to her grandson Prince William has gone viral. The message was reportedly written in the early 1990s to accompany a calendar that she gifted William. After being shared on Twitter by the Royal Household Mail account, the post has racked up thousands …

Existing Royal Mail stamps will become unusable in 100 days after a new barcode system is rolled out, and people have until January 31, 2023 to use them. People risk being charged for using the old 1st and 2nd class stamps once they become outdated. If stamps that have passed …

Royal Mail has been accused by a judge of “destroying” a female employee’s life after she was the victim of a lengthy bullying campaign for blowing the whistle on potential fraud. In an extraordinary judgement, the postal service was told that if it had a “shred of decency” it would …

Royal Mail staff are poised to walk out again as a dispute over pay continues. From Thursday (October 20), workers will walk out on 18 days from October to December, covering the busy pre-Christmas period which includes Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Over summer more than 100,000 postal workers took …

Until the death of the Queen, one source has told The Telegraph, plans for the Coronation were sketched out rather than signed-off. It has “deliberately been kept quite unplanned to ensure it can best reflect the climate at the time at which it happens”, they say. “There will be people …

Existing Royal Mail stamps will become unusable in the new year, after a new barcode system is rolled out. However, households will have until January 31, 2023 to use old stamps that don’t have the new barcodes – and, after that will be able to exchange them. The Royal Mail …

A Royal Mail driver has impressed everyone with an absolutely heartwarming gesture for a man who often waves to them as they drive by. 27-year-old Alex Chesters, who has quadriplegic cerebral palsy, likes to go to Ash Flats Lane bridge near Stafford so he can watch and wave at the …

What sports events are cancelled? All horse-racing has been cancelled on the day of the funeral. No other major sporting events were planned for this Monday.  What else is impacted by the funeral? Center Parcs  Center Parcs had originally announced that it would order holidaymakers to leave its UK sites …