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Postal service

August 2024

  • Daniel Křetínský speaks at a conference in Prague, October 2023: he is in his late 40s with short-cropped fairish hair and glasses, and is seen against a black backdrop wearing a dark blue suit, white shirt and pale blue tie; his hands are held up in front of his body with fingers pushed together as he speaks

    UK calls in Czech billionaire’s Royal Mail bid for national security review

    Daniel Křetínský’s potential Russia links to be examined in scrutiny of bid’s effect on UK economic infrastructure

July 2024

  • Kirsteen Hobson at Oban post office

    The sinister, shocking rise of dog attacks on postal workers: ‘It lunged at my face – then my lip came off’

    In the past five years, 1,000 postal workers have had a finger partly or fully bitten off through a letterbox. Many others have experienced horrific, life-changing injuries, too. Why is this problem suddenly so much worse?
  • A van carrying Royal Mail postal deliveries in Bury, Greater Manchester, with ‘local, national, global’ written on the side.

    Brief letters
    How to get the postal service back on track

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    • Royal Mail goes ahead with cuts to UK flights despite takeover

    • Close election results ‘could be challenged over delayed postal votes’

    • Starmer urges minister to meet Royal Mail over postal vote delay fears

June 2024

  • Back view of postal worker near a Royal Mail van

    Union calls for Royal Mail staff to get ‘serious stake’ in service after takeover

  • Hand putting mail through letter box in light blue door

    Royal Mail owner faces £900m class action claim for ‘abusing dominant position’

May 2024

  • The exterior of a Royal Mail delivery office.

    What will Royal Mail’s takeover mean for customers and postal workers?

  • A man in a hi-vis jacket looks up at a Royal Mail logo and insignia on a warehouse

    Viewpoint column
    Royal Mail’s foreign sale could put a 500-year-old national service in jeopardy

    Phillip Inman
  • Royal Mail lorries

    Royal Mail owner agrees to £3.57bn takeover by Czech billionaire

  • A man pushes a red letter-carrying wagon next to a post box

    Royal Mail owner warns Czech billionaire’s offer could create risk around finances

  • UK to look at security implications of Křetínský Royal Mail bid

  • Nils Pratley on finance
    Czech billionaire’s bid for Royal Mail is problematic from every angle

    Nils Pratley

April 2024

  • A Royal Mail delivery worker pushes a red mail cart down a street of Victorian houses in London, past a red postbox

    Union appears to accept Royal Mail proposal to cut most Saturday deliveries

  • A Royal Mail post delivery cart parked next to a post box in central London

    Regulators leave Royal Mail vulnerable to ‘corporate predators’, says investor

  • Royal Mail vans

    Royal Mail owner received takeover offer from Czech billionaire

  • First- and second-class stamps

    Royal Mail urged to investigate claims of Chinese-made fake stamps

  • Patients let down by an out-of-touch NHS

  • Why I quit
    Working for the Royal Mail sounded like an ideal job. But I discovered it’s falling apart, just like its vans

    Gareth Roberts
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