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Postal service

July 2024

  • Red aircraft at night on the tarmac

    Royal Mail goes ahead with cuts to UK flights despite takeover

    Three more freight flights to go this month as parent company’s CEO Martin Seidenberg pursues transformation
  • The opening and sorting of postal ballots at a centre in Ingliston, Scotland.

    Close election results ‘could be challenged over delayed postal votes’

    Experts say cases could go to high court after thousands of voters complain of not receiving ballots
  • Sorting postal ballots in Scotland

    Starmer urges minister to meet Royal Mail over postal vote delay fears

    Labour leader says Post Office minister should urgently ‘get on with the job’ of sorting out problem

June 2024

  • Back view of postal worker near a Royal Mail van

    Union calls for Royal Mail staff to get ‘serious stake’ in service after takeover

  • Hand putting mail through letter box in light blue door

    Royal Mail owner faces £900m class action claim for ‘abusing dominant position’

May 2024

  • The exterior of a Royal Mail delivery office.

    What will Royal Mail’s takeover mean for customers and postal workers?

  • A man in a hi-vis jacket looks up at a Royal Mail logo and insignia on a warehouse

    Viewpoint column
    Royal Mail’s foreign sale could put a 500-year-old national service in jeopardy

    Phillip Inman
  • Royal Mail lorries

    Royal Mail owner agrees to £3.57bn takeover by Czech billionaire

  • A man pushes a red letter-carrying wagon next to a post box

    Royal Mail owner warns Czech billionaire’s offer could create risk around finances

  • UK to look at security implications of Křetínský Royal Mail bid

  • Nils Pratley on finance
    Czech billionaire’s bid for Royal Mail is problematic from every angle

    Nils Pratley

April 2024

  • A Royal Mail delivery worker pushes a red mail cart down a street of Victorian houses in London, past a red postbox

    Union appears to accept Royal Mail proposal to cut most Saturday deliveries

  • A Royal Mail post delivery cart parked next to a post box in central London

    Regulators leave Royal Mail vulnerable to ‘corporate predators’, says investor

  • Royal Mail vans

    Royal Mail owner received takeover offer from Czech billionaire

  • First- and second-class stamps

    Royal Mail urged to investigate claims of Chinese-made fake stamps

  • Patients let down by an out-of-touch NHS

  • Why I quit
    Working for the Royal Mail sounded like an ideal job. But I discovered it’s falling apart, just like its vans

    Gareth Roberts

  • Plans for Royal Mail delivery cuts could risk patient safety, NHS leaders warn

  • Royal Mail owner proposes second-class post deliveries every other weekday

  • Drop a midweek post day instead of Saturdays, greetings card firms urge

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