Royal Mail

UK strike calendar – service stoppages planned for March and April
All the dates for strikes and stoppages across health, transport and education networks
Joe Middleton, Mabel Banfield-Nwachi, Anna Leach, Garry Blight, Safi Bugel and Casper Hughes
23, Mar, 2023 @4:08 PM

Royal Mail CEO accused of ‘incompetence or cluelessness’ by MPs
Remarks come as regulator Ofcom asked to investigate if firm broke legal obligation on letter deliveries
Alex Lawson
17, Mar, 2023 @12:01 AM

First stamps to bear King Charles’s silhouette to be released
Special set with UK’s favourite flowers including the sunflower and purple iris to feature on collection of 10 stamps
Caroline Davies
14, Mar, 2023 @12:01 AM

Cost of first class stamp to rise above £1 for first time, Royal Mail announces
First class stamp £1.10 from April and second class 75p as firm predicts £450m operating loss
Julia Kollewe
04, Mar, 2023 @8:50 PM

Royal Mail makes its political headache worse | Nils Pratley
Chief executive’s answers to MPs suggest regulatory headaches may await firm beset by industrial action
Nils Pratley
22, Feb, 2023 @7:05 PM

Royal Mail boss blames rogue managers for tracking devices on workers
Simon Thompson says monitors were used to pressure staff to work faster in breach of its policy
Mark Sweney
22, Feb, 2023 @6:51 PM

Royal Mail resumes overseas deliveries via post offices after cyber-attack
Branches to get payments to cover lost international income as postal workers threaten further strikes
Mark Sweney
21, Feb, 2023 @1:59 PM

Letter lost in 1916 delivered in London more than 100 years later
Royal Mail ‘uncertain what happened’ to delayed letter from Bath, which arrived in Crystal Palace in 2021
Caroline Davies
16, Feb, 2023 @4:30 PM

‘All we have had is losses’: Royal Mail dismisses ‘absurd’ $80m ransom demand
‘Under no circumstances will we pay that absurd amount,’ delivery firm says, telling hackers it is not the booming company they think
Rob Davies
15, Feb, 2023 @4:59 PM

Royal Mail reveals image of King Charles to be used on stamps
First and second class designs reflect monarch’s desire for continuity and will be on sale from 4 April
Mark Sweney
08, Feb, 2023 @6:00 AM

Royal Mail staff to stage 24-hour strike on 16 February
Action is latest in bitter row between CWU union and company over pay and working conditions
Julia Kollewe
02, Feb, 2023 @5:14 PM

No 10 declines to say Sunak confident Zahawi has always told him truth about his tax affairs – as it happened
Downing Street spokesperson also says inquiry into former chancellor’s affairs to be ‘conducted swiftly’
Andrew Sparrow
24, Jan, 2023 @6:43 PM
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