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Royal Mail workers, university lecturers and teachers are walking out on strike in coordinated action as industrial unrest continues to spread across the country in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. Picket lines are being mounted outside postal delivery and sorting offices, universities and schools as unions edge closer to …

Royal Mail workers are to strike on Christmas Eve as well as five more days throughout December as a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions continues. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) will walk out on December 9, 11, 14, 15, 23 and 24. This is on top …

Royal Mail has slumped to a first-half loss and reiterated warnings it will tumble deeper into the red for the full-year after strike action cost it around £100 million. Owner International Distributions Services (IDS) said Royal Mail fell to a £219 million underlying operating loss in the 26 weeks to …

The issue comes a day after Royal Mail’s labour union rejected a new conditional pay offer. (File) London: Royal Mail on Tuesday temporarily stopped access to its online postage and parcel tracking service after reports some customers were able to see information on other users’ orders, the British company said. …

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 People risk being charged for using the old 1st and 2nd class stamps once they become outdated.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 …