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...He earned the trust and business of delivery drivers, who often lacked food, by providing them with free meals through the gates....
...No, not Santa Claus. Those who really deliver the presents: Britain’s posties. Locked in a pay dispute with employer Royal Mail, postmen and women will strike again over the coming weeks....
...No company or organisation is immune. Last year LastPass, the password manager provider, suffered a data breach. In January hackers disrupted Britain’s Royal Mail parcel delivery service....
...With no exit route apparent, there is no way to disguise that new equity is needed to keep the lights on. Where does that leave the airlines?...
...Royal Mail claimed its introduction of “contact-free” delivery — where a postman or woman leaves items outside a door and stands back two metres after knocking, with no need for a signature — was a first...
...The relevance of this is that Royal Mail is the leading parcel operator in the UK with more than 50% market share of total parcel volumes....
...Vonovia responded with a statement that’s more confirmation than denial, but isn’t exactly either....
...Meanwhile, growth in parcels – including deliveries for Amazon and “import parcels” – contributed to a six per cent increase in UK parcel volumes....
...Putin on the policy priorities It is that time of year again: On Thursday, several hundred reporters will squeeze into a room with Vladimir Putin to bombard the Russian president with questions for at least...
...Royal Mail is to face a “fundamental review” after the withdrawal of rival Whistl from the direct delivery market left it with no competition, Britain’s communications watchdog announced on Tuesday....
...It was an almost impossible task to reconcile demands from all the competing stakeholders – and sell a declining business such as post and parcel delivery to the stock market – but she pulled it off....
...“It is simply not practical that mail room staff time is eaten up with personal packages when the priority is handling mail from customers and claimants,” the spokesperson said....
...Still, Royal Mail’s much-discussed privatisation has chugged a big stage forward with confirmation that an initial public offering of most of the government’s shares will take place within weeks....
...Vince Cable, business secretary, said Royal Mail’s 150,000 UK employees would be eligible for a free 10 per cent stake in the delivery company as he confirmed the government would sell off a majority holding...
...Customers in Europe, where it is the sector leader, are switching from priority delivery to slower, cheaper products....
...In the meantime, the big story of the morning is confirmation that the Age of Austerity has grown longer....
...The most pressing operational issue is to stem the ever-increasing losses in Deutsche Post’s US parcel delivery, or express, business....
...Selling small numbers of shares in private limited companies is not at all like selling a parcel of shares in a quoted company and there is no market for them as such....
...of parcel deliveries in China....
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