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HISTORICAL FACTS: 16 - Caught on Camera

Royal Mail delivers for its shareholders, but not for us

Letters: Readers respond to Aditya Chakrabortty’s piece on the slow demise of the postal service

The Guardian - UK

Government to discuss handing ownership of Post Office to its operators

Post office operators’ union calls meeting after miscarriage of justice that saw more than 700 branch managers prosecuted

The Guardian - UK

So this is how the Royal Mail ends: killed by lying politicians, lousy managers and ruthless moneymen

The decline of this great institution is a story in microcosm of how so many aspects of British life have been degraded, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

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Stop mithering, Owen, and let us enjoy watching the Tory Death Star explode

Brief letters: Marching to victory | Delivery delays | Fresh from the oven | A communist plot | Michelle Mone quote

The Guardian - UK

Royal Mail is failing to deliver any service at all

Letters: Privatisation, overseen by the coalition government, is to blame, writes Colin Montgomery. Plus letters from Ruth Brandon, David Hague and John Barstow

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Royal Mail: when letters arrive is a social, not market, decision

Editorial: Privatisation has not seen consumer and staff interests properly protected. It is time to consider a different approach

The Guardian - UK

Ofcom’s ‘snail mail’ plan isn’t the solution that Royal Mail needs

The regulator’s proposal to slow down deliveries to three days or longer will erode the service almost to the point of surrender

The Guardian - UK

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UK PM Sunak Defends Royal Mail Delivery Obligation

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday pledged to maintain Royal Mail's obligation to deliver letters six days a week, despite calls for less frequent service to slash costs.

International Business Times

UK Says Royal Mail Delivery Obligation 'Unsustainable'

An obligation that Royal Mail delivers letters six days per week risks becoming "unsustainable", a UK regulator said Wednesday as it proposed less frequent service.

International Business Times

Royal Mail could deliver post just three days a week under shock Ofcom proposals

Cost cutting options laid out by regulator could save the company up to £650 million a year

Evening Standard

Royal Mail could save £650m by moving to three-day-a-week service, says Ofcom

Regulator sets out possible ways forward in review of requirement to deliver across Britain, six days a week

The Guardian - UK

UK factories hit by Red Sea crisis, but recession could be avoided – as it happened

Manufacturing supply chains were impacted by longer wait times for container freight during January in the wake of the Red Sea crisis

The Guardian - UK

Royal Mail services may be about to change: how do other countries handle postal services?

UK’s Royal Mail braced for review result as Saturday letter deliveries expected to be cut

The Guardian - UK

Royal Mail’s Saturday letter service should stay, says Downing Street

Regulator due to lay out options for future as operator claims six-day service is unsustainable

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Ofcom to set out possible Royal Mail reforms – and Saturday deliveries could end

Regulator’s review will look at evidence and options on how universal postal service ‘might need to evolve’

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak opposes potential end to Saturday post by Royal Mail

The Government previously rejected a request from the Royal Mail to halt Saturday deliveries

The Guardian - UK

Royal Mail hails best Christmas for four years – but staff miss £500 bonus

Delivery company says nearly all festive deliveries arrived on time and its revenues rose

The Independent UK

‘An honour’: Spice Girls react as Royal Mail releases stamps celebrating band’s 30th anniversary

Record-breaking girl group have been honoured by a special collection of stamps from the Royal Mail

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The Guardian - UK

Now claw back Vennells’s bonuses from the Post Office. The rules allow it

Clauses in the former CEO’s contract could easily be enforced – but the whole rotten saga goes deeper

Woman & Home

Spice Girls stamps: Are they real, why are they being released and how can you buy them?

Victoria Beckham has shared a special post admiring Spice Girls stamps but you might be wondering if they're real and how to buy them

Marie Claire

Spice Girls stamps are now a thing and it's the 2024 merch we never knew we needed

Zig-ah-zig yes please

Evening Standard

Who owns the Post Office? Postmasters could be exonerated in Horizon IT scandal

More than 700 sub-postmasters were prosecuted during the scandal, which is the subject of a hit ITV drama

The Guardian - UK

Dead letter office? Royal Mail wrestles with a difficult future

In private hands, the postal service has become a graveyard of management ambitions, beset by discontent and decline. Can yet another new boss save it?

The Guardian - UK

Royal Mail’s Spice Girls stamp collection marks band’s 30th anniversary

Collections featuring images from 1997 Brit awards are postal service’s first dedicated to an all-female pop group

The Guardian - UK

Royal Mail fails to hit first-class delivery target in every UK area

One-third of letters in some parts of the country don’t arrive the next day – despite the rise in stamp prices

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