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A wide range of officially licensed and unlicensed private posts operated during the strike to fill the gap left by the withdrawal of official postal services. Some were genuine commercial services that provided local, national and international deliveries, but many were set up by stamp collectors and stamp dealers to provide philatelic ...
Deliveries are made at least once every day except Sundays and bank holidays at uniform charges for all UK destinations. Royal Mail generally aims to make first class deliveries the next business day throughout the nation. [4] For most of its history, the Royal Mail was a public service, operating as a government department or public corporation.
Wednesday 17 October from midday for Royal Mail drivers; Thursday 18 October from midday for Manual data entry centres; Thursday 18 October from 2pm at Heathrow world distribution centre. In late afternoon 12 October, Royal Mail succeeded in obtaining an injunction at London's High Court banning the scheduled strikes starting on 15 and 16 ...
Members of the CWU are set to strike again on Thursday and Friday in a long running row over pay, jobs and conditions.
A Royal Mail spokesman said: “The CWU can be in no doubt of the impact its reckless pursuit of 19 days of industrial action has on our weakened financial position and the job security of its ...
DX (trading as DX and DX Freight) is a British mail, courier and logistics company, with operations throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland based in Datchet, England. [ 1 ] They employ more than 3,000 staff, and their network covers most UK and Ireland business and residential addresses.
The Postal Services Act 2000 (c. 26) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, relating to the postal industry. It established an industry regulator, Postcomm (s.1), a consumer watchdog , Postwatch (s.2), required a " universal service " of post to be provided (ss.3-4) and set up rules for licensing postal services operators (ss.6-41).
Royal Mail, one of the U.K.'s oldest institutions, began in the 1500s as a service exclusively for the monarch and the royal court. It became a public postal service in the 1600s.