Source: Independent.co.uk
The Royal Mail ended the few remaining Sunday mail collections across the UK yesterday in a further bid to cut costs. Demand for the Sunday service was said to have been low, with over 80% of post boxes in the UK already not having a Sunday collection.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
The Post Office is expected to launch its own broadband service next week. It aims to persuade 1 million of the 24 million people that visit a post office each week to sign up to the service over the next four years.
Many years ago we wrote all over the globe letters. I personally have been in pens to Japan, France and Zaire. So there around 1984 I got Formula 1 calendar for next coming year and I immediately sent back to Japan calendar with pictures of my country.
Source: The Times
After the end of official Royal Mail strikes, 30 unofficial ("wildcat") strikes took place across the country yesterday. The Royal Mail and the CWU are expected to continue talks today. Talks will centre on pay, pensions and working practices.
Source: The Times
Quarterly growth slowed by 29% in Carphone Warehouse's broadband business. Carphone Warehouse's AOL and Talk Talk services signed up 89,000 new customers in its latest quarter.
Source: the Mail online
Emerging from a cramped flat in the run-down Scottish town of East Kilbride, the dowdy middle-aged woman does not look out of place.
Source: Metro UK
Globetrotting Britons are being left with a holiday headache when it comes to leaving a tip abroad, according to new research. The problem of how much to leave without causing offence can be hard to fathom, with every country seemingly having its own customs.
Source: RealClearPolitics
Michael Moore loves government. OK, he doesn't love a government headed by George W. Bush, but he believes that once the Democrats are in charge, government will do a better job providing health care.
Source: NBC29.com
The main post office for Charlottesville on Route 29 was closed for about six hours Monday when employees contacted police after finding a white powder on the counter early Monday morning. Tests from a Richmond lab later showed that the powder was a glucose-based substance.
Source: LewRockwell.com
A few weeks ago, as I waited in a line about 25 people long in the largest post office in the section of town I happened to be in, I began to wonder: What about the operation of this place would change if there was actually competition for their business? For those who don't kn …
Source: dailycognition.com
We all know you need stamps to mail a letter right? Well this guy decided to challenge that assumption by taping loose change that totaled 39 cents onto the envelope and mailing it! He even taped an extra 5 cents for a tip! Find out if the letter got to it's intended recipient...
Source: BBC News
Bomb squad officers called in to blow up a suspicious package found it contained a packet of chocolate buttons and a vibrator. Post Office staff in Harland, Chesterfield called in police when they heard the package making a noise.
Source: The L.A. Times
A decline in first-class mail volume and higher health benefit costs are to blame. Fuel prices also are taking a bite.
Source: nycjewishnews.com
A 3-alarm fire severely damaged a Bronx post office and 15 firefighters suffered minor injures battling the fire Saturday afternoon.
Source: brink.com
Source: The Hartford Courant
A federal judge has ruled that post offices across the country that are run by churches and other organizations cannot promote religion through displays or other promotional materials.
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...Police are searching for two would-be bandits after Postal Annex employees got the giggles and foiled an attempted armed robbery...
Source: ABC News
The bomb squad was relieved to find it was only Winnie the Pooh. Oh bother!
Source: the Mail online
It was the only way Walter Butler could let his fiancee know he was still alive. But the hastily signed field service card he sent from the Flanders trenches never made it to Amy Hicks.
Source: gladwell.com: the new yorker archive
Don't believe the Internet hype: The real E-commerce revolution happened off-line. An informative historic romp through time offering evidence that the real revolution of E-commerce began on the dirt roads of Missouri during the turn of the century...
Source: Media Matters for America
Summary: While NBC has aired a segment on President Bush's "signing statement" on a postal reform bill that "quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant," ABC, CBS, and CNN have largely ignored the story, and ABC reported that Bush "a …
Source: The Sun Newspaper Online
With a map drawn on the envelope, British postal carriers delivered a Christmas card.
Source: BBC News
The price of a first class stamp is to rise by 2p to 34p from next April, the Royal Mail has announced. The cost of a second class stamp will also increase, by 1p to 24p. The hikes come after the price of both stamps rose 2p last April.
Source: BBC News
About 2,500 post offices are expected to close by 2009 because of rising losses and fewer people using the network, the government has announced.
Source: businessday.co.za
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has broken her silence on the chaos brewing at the South African Post Office, confirming that she is investigating "the actions of both the board and management" of the government-owned institution.