Royal Mail listing draws closer as Britain seeks advisers

Britain said it expects to appoint lead bank advisers for a possible stock market listing of Royal Mail Group by the end of May, as it pushes on with plans to privatise the firm. In what would be one of the most...

Dog with intense hatred of postmen scares off Royal Mail

Royal Mail bosses have declared a suburban street out of bounds because of a dog with an “intense hatred of postmen”. Householders say that Jarvis the dog is generally friendly and even plays with the...

Nearly half UK daily postbag is now Junk mail

Almost half of all postal deliveries are junk mail, it was revealed yesterday. And Royal Mail admitted the volume of unwanted letters will only grow in its drive to make bigger profits. The revelation means up to...

GB's First 2012 Gold Medal Win Celebrated with New Stamp

To celebrate Team GB’s first gold medal moment at London 2012, Royal Mail will produce a stamp in 24 hours to honour Helen and Heather’s gold medal triumph in the Women’s Pair Rowing.The gold medal win makes...

Royal Mail first-class letters to rise from 46p to 60p.

The price rise, which comes into force on 30 April, marks the biggest annual increase in the cost of stamps in percentage terms since 1975. It was accompanied by a hike in the cost of second-class stamps from...

Royal Mail; EC investigates plans to privatise

29th July 2011 The European Commission has opened an investigation into the UK government's plans to privitise the Royal Mail. It will look at plans to relieve the postal operator of a pension deficit of ...

Royal mail timeline

News 19 10 2009: Last-ditch talks in Royal Mail postal dispute A Royal Mail boss said that a 30,000-strong recruitment blitz was not designed to "break" a union as last-ditch talks aimed at preventing this week's crippling strikes went ahead. Operations director Paul...

Union Anger as Royal Mail Plan to Hire 30,000 Temps During Strike

Royal Mail have reveled plans to hire upto 30,000 temporary workers as strikes and Christmas aprocahes to help keep mail flowing. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) have expressed this as a "stupid move" but...

British postal workers vote to strike on a national scale

For the second time in two years Royal Mail postal workers are to strike regarding working conditions and pay.Out of 80,830 votes counted 61,623 said yes to the industrial action.Royal Mail have been loosing money and said this strike will hit them hard, today they...

Charles Darwin turns 200 - celebrations in the UK

Charles Darwin would have been 200 today, and celebrations are taking place all over the world to celebration the 200th anniversary of the naturalists's birth. No country is taking these celebrations more seriously than the UK. Darwin Day has a list of over 650 events in 42...

Wildcat Strikes Persist...It's supposed to be over!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7037052.stm unofficial strike action taking place in liverpool and london. Is it never going to end? 

Postal Strike Support Growing

With Europe opening up alternative postal services to Royal Mail a strike will be good news for their competitors. The decapitation of Britons postal services and closure of thousands of post offices rest blame...

Royal Mail gives Harry Potter stamp of approval

"Britain's Royal Mail will issue 11 stamps to honour the extraordinary success of the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling just before the final volume of the series goes on sale. The postal company announced Monday...

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