Hints and tips:
...There was no reply. I called again, to see if they could confirm the fax had been received. No such confirmation was possible: the matter would be “handled according to the relevant regulations”....
...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...
...Her confirmation cements the court’s 6-3 conservative majority ahead of possible election-related cases....
...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....
...His two top, and interlinked, priorities should be the EU’s relations with the US and with China.”...
...No, not prime minister Theresa May’s priorities, in reverse order. But three things that — for many — do not go far enough....
...The FBI said all the devices were mailed in manila envelopes with bubble wrap....
...But external mediation with the union is underway. “Our priority is to reach agreement with the CWU to help underpin the sustainability of the business,” it said....
...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...
...The announcement follows Whistl’s confirmation last week that it would pull out of delivering letters, with the loss of 2,000 jobs....
...Those institutions had no expectation of ever receiving anything like that quantum of stock....
...But retaining the status quo, with an overwhelming dominance of middle-aged men in charge, seems equally unsatisfactory. There is no easy solution....
...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....
...“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....
...I’m taking Royal Mail on a £3bn roller-coaster ride into the private sector and no one can stop me.” “Think again!” bellowed a man with a shaved head, bursting in. “Dave Ward from the CWU here....
...They will have priority if they want to buy extra shares in the retail offer. He told the Commons that privatisation would “give Royal Mail the real commercial freedom it’s needed for a long time”....
...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....
...In strode another customer wearing training shoes and woollen ear muffs, in contravention of the dress code appended to all e-mail booking confirmations. He was neither stopped nor reprimanded....
...Contrast that with the loving care Osborne lavishes on the wealthy and it is clear where this government’s priorities lie....
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