Tag: UK

Far-right Italians deliver embarrassment to UK Royal Mail

Posted by | Sep 19, 2003 | |

The Royal Mail is considering legal action against a far-Right party in Italy that plans to sell British stamps bearing the face of its leader next to the Queen’s head.

To the embarrassment of the Post Office, the Northern League, a populist right-wing party in Italy’s coalition Government, announced that it was to sell Royal Mail stamps bearing not only the head of the Queen but also the face of Umberto Bossi, its leader. The Northern League had used a Royal Mail service that allows customers to customise stamps.

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UK Royal Mail cuts losses with outsourcing deal

Posted by | Sep 19, 2003 | |

A deal to outsource the management of Royal Mail’s online platforms to IT services group Sapient has helped to reduce losses to GBP611m this year, the organisation said.

Agreed last year, the contract, part of a three-year recovery plan aimed at slashing its GBP1bn business losses, has saved millions of pounds, according to Royal Mail.

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UK Postal Workers Reject National Strike

Posted by | Sep 19, 2003 | |

The threat of the first national mail strike for seven years has evaporated after postal workers narrowly rejected calls to take industrial action over pay. In an embarrassing reverse for union leaders, members of the communication workers union (CWU) voted by a majority of fewer than 2,000 against staging a series of walkouts.

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Palletforce passes 1m pallets

Posted by | Sep 18, 2003 | |

Records are tumbling this month at Palletforce. Its millionth pallet was handled on the 8th, two years almost to the day after it started operation. Lichfield International Freight – based 10 minutes from the hub – broke the record for pallets sent in one wee, at more than 1,000 and Wm Armstrong from Cumbria set a new record for pallets received, at 734.

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