Hints and tips:
...There are people dealing with us since his time who won’t do business with us any more.”...
...Investors should wait for signs the postal service is actually delivering....
...For postal services, the requirement to screen and apply VAT to potentially most of the 1bn packages that come in would gum up the efficient movement of packages....
...“This network and our strong brand, coupled with the high service quality delivered by our people enable us to take full advantage of the growth in UK e-commerce to further enhance our pre-eminent parcels...
...Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with archive shots – Beatrix Potter at Hill Top Farm, for example....
...We need to promote growth of high productivity jobs in manufacturing ,in creative arts and other areas which will surprise us – not possible to pick in advance – the future Dysons and Harry Potters....
...Into this cosy world, in 1987, strode one John Birt, first as deputy and then, from 1992 to 2000, director-general....
...Canvas will help us get services like iPlayer to every household in the land....
...Bankers will see similar thinking behind Sunday’s pledge by Gordon Brown, Britain’s prime minister – less than three weeks before a general election – that UK regulators also investigate....
...Potter, the postmaster-general, in testimony to Congress....
...Often the butt of jokes about inefficiency, the US Postal Service is bleeding red ink just two years after it was put on a more independent footing by Congress....
...It’s OK to mandate universal service. We did it 100 years ago, 200 years ago for postal service. We did 100 years ago for telephone. It’s OK to mandate that....
...If you wish to comment on this or any other topic please e-mail: ftfmwebeditor@ft.com...
...“The Grundys changed in the 1970s, and again, in the 1990s, when the farm went bankrupt and they lost it - that gave us a very poignant story....
...Frank Hanecak, the general manager at Hanex Group real estate services in Prague, says the strength of the market stems from the fall of communism in 1989....
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