The Post Office is to launch a low-cost home insurance product as part of its crusade to position itself as a consumer champion.
The product, branded Post Office Home Insurance, will be a low-cost contents insurance package aimed at consumers who rent properties and those who do not need high-value cover.
Britain’s postal workers voted Thursday in favor of striking to back demands for a pay increase, though no dates have been set for a walkout.
Members of the Communication Workers Union employed by the Royal Mail voted 63 percent in favor of a strike. Sixty-five percent of the union’s 145,000 postal members took part in the ballot.
Members of the Communication Workers Union have voted overwhelmingly to support an executive council recommendation to take strike action over Royal Mail pay. 145,000 ballot papers were sent out to members and the results were as follows. here was a 65 per cent return 63 per cent voted in favour of taking industrial action 37 per cent voted against.
Read MoreIncreased demand has led George at Asda, the clothing retailer, to open two new distribution centres, in Oldham and Essex, to be managed separately by Tibbett & Britten and DTS Logistics. The new warehouses will allow an extra 600,000 units per week to be moved. Tibbett & Britten will handle 50% of the retailer’s distribution, while George and DTS Logistics will each deal with 25%.
Read MoreIT’S A VERY British tragedy. A combination of conservative ideology and near complete ignorance of how organisations are changed is set to lay the universal British postal service low. We are to enter a brave new world in which the rich, businesses and city dwellers will enjoy a first-class postal service and the rest of the country will be consigned to second- and third-class status.
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