Royal Mail

UK approves Daniel Kretinsky’s £5.3 billion bid for Royal Mail parent, FT reports

2024-12-16T01:49:03.000Z
Royal Mail has been trying to transform itself into a parcel-led business as letter volumes declined sharply over the years.

Royal Mail owner agrees to US$4.6 billion takeover by Czech billionaire Kretinsky

2024-05-29T07:14:30.000Z
Some 76 per cent Royal Mail works vote in favour of the pay agreement.

UK postal workers vote to accept Royal Mail pay deal

2023-07-11T16:10:00.000Z
International Distributions Services, which owns the UK postal service, said industrial action, a weak online retail market and severance costs from redundancies had hit performance.

Royal Mail plunges to £1 billion loss after fight with union

2023-05-18T08:13:04.000Z
Simon Thompson draws heavy criticism from the CWU and its postal workers over his handling of the pay dispute, which is causing financial distress and major disruptions to mail deliveries.

UK’s Royal Mail CEO Thompson to step down after union clash

2023-05-12T15:55:00.000Z
The new King Charles III 1st class stamp.

UK’s Royal Mail unveils first King Charles stamps

2023-02-08T00:45:55.000Z
Royal Mail will be resuming its International Tracked and Signed, and International Signed services to all destinations for business account customers and customers buying postage online from Jan 26.

Royal mail resumes more services after cyber incident

2023-01-26T15:55:00.000Z
Royal Mail said it had asked customers to stop sending international mail until the problem is resolved, and warned that items already shipped “may experience delay or disruption.”

Royal Mail hit by cyber-incident

2023-01-11T22:43:20.000Z
Royal Mail will make Sunday working optional and offer “more generous” voluntary redundancy terms and no compulsory layoffs until the end of March.

UK's Royal Mail makes 'final' offer of up to 9% pay hike to union

2022-11-23T13:17:35.000Z
Royal Mail will be starting the process of consulting on the cuts “in response to the impact of industrial action, delays in delivering agreed productivity improvements and lower parcel volumes.”

Royal Mail to cut 10,000 jobs as strikes blamed for loss

2022-10-14T07:22:36.000Z