Wow! #UK #RoyalMail is going all out in its celebration of brilliant Welsh singer Shirley #Bassey. Known for her #JamesBond movie themes (and for the dance hit #History Repeating), the 86-year-old Bassey has had albums hit UK Top-40 charts in seven consecutive decades. Stamps available on Sept. 21.

https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/dame-shirley-bassey

#philately #stamps

🤦 It looks like I missed the bit on the #RoyalMail website where it says they'll charge £0.16 if you drop off "Royal Mail Tracked 24" at the #PostOffice rather than booking a free collection 🙄 .

Last month, I've tooted how it took from to weeks up to a month for my letters to go from Paris to Kent.

Some people had it difficult to believe me, here you go :

"Royal Mail’s future in doubt after delivery targets missed in every postcode

Next three months ‘make or break’ for the company, which has lost a tenth of its business to rivals and delivered a £750 million loss

The future of the Royal Mail is in doubt after it failed to hit its delivery targets in every UK postcode this summer.

Households in postage blackspots are waiting up to two weeks for deliveries, putting the NHS under strain as missed hospital appointments become a “continuous occurrence”.

A cancer sufferer who underwent surgery last month said it was “shocking” that letters from his doctor had arrived after he was expected to attend appointments.

A source close to the company said the next three months were “make or break” for Royal Mail after it lost a tenth of its business to rivals in a year of strikes, and delivered a £750 million loss..."

#RoyalMail #Privatization #PublicService #England

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/royal-mail-delivery-targets-missed-every-postcode-kqmb2pcss

RT from Archoptical (@archoptical)

Demolition applied for, of the rear part of this old sorting office in #Sydenham. #se26 #royalmail #sortingoffice

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/archoptical/status/1697324136291332250

Our postal workers should be allowed a cup of tea now and again. What type of Victorian manufactory are #RoyalMail running? #CWU #TeaBreak

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-66486405

Drone News of the Week pt.2 - The UK's first permanent drone delivery service has been launched in Orkney and the islands of Hoy and Graemsay. The drones can carry 6kg of mail to the islands.

#GoodNews #Drones #Tech #RoyalMail #Post #Orkney

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/01/royal-mail-uses-drones-to-deliver-post-in-the-orkney-islands

"The UK’s Royal Mail today shared images of the eight Special Stamps they are issuing to celebrate Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, marking the 40th anniversary of The Colour of Magic, first book in the series. The stamps can be pre-ordered now, and will be available for general purchase on August 10."

https://file770.com/royal-mail-to-issue-terry-pratchetts-discworld-stamps/

#TerryPratchett #RoyalMail #UK #Stamps #Discworld

If any fellow #TerryPratchett fans fancy the soon to be released #Discworld 40th anniversary #RoyalMail special #stamp releases, order ASAP if you want a limited edition print. Because some are already selling out. I nabbed me a couple of framed prints tonight in a preorder, one limited edition. More will sell out in the coming days. https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/terry-pratchetts-discworld?iid=SC0723_TPD_HP_01 #stamps #stampIssues #stampCollecting #philately

New #RoyalMail special #stamps coming soon celebrating 40 years of #Discworld by #TerryPratchett https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/terry-pratchetts-discworld #stampIssues #stampCollecting #philately #specialStamps #Pterry

The Royal Mail used to be a truly wonderful company, until it was privatised...... we've had post being delivered at 8pm, several days with no post whatsoever and then mass-drop through the letter box.

Feeling very sorry for the posties in a what is now a vastly resource-depleted company that only cares for its shareholders.

Both Tories & Lib-Dems are to blame for this one, fuck you Vince Cable.

#GTTO #Privatisation #VinceCable #LibDems #RoyalMail

Anyone else seeing #RoyalMail weirdness ATM?

I sent 1st tracked mail to Canada on the 17th, RM tracking has been saying "Sorry, there was a problem, please try again" for days but Canada Post received it on the 20th and it's due to be delivered tomorrow.

An untracked 1st UK Large Letter hasn't arrived a week after posting.

Another signed for 1st UK LL is still "In Transit" after 2 weeks.

@velobetty classic. Sender should be able to claim but small biz cannot afford the time to do that. Win win win for Royal Mail (third win is that they get paid to send the second package)

#royalmail

Got a package via #RoyalMail which was sent on the 14th *June* on 48 hour special delivery.

The company have already sent me a replacement so I'll return this one but it's absolutely ridiculous they've had it for 35 days! No apology. Just delivered it as if they did their job.

Another evening where #RoyalMail website is broken and you can't buy postage. ;(

England's folks..... is anyone getting a post delivery on a Saturday these days? We haven't had one for yonks.

#RoyalMail #PostalService #England #RandomToot

British postal workers send greetings to founding meeting of UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee

>The outcome of a fight pitting 340,000 #UPS workers against the largest postal and shipping company on Earth will be felt by workers far beyond the borders of the United States
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/14/upsr-j14.html #Union #Labour #solidarity #workersrights #unions #labor #RoyalMail #UK

#UK - #RoyalMail workers indict CWU leadership for rotten sellout of their year-long fight

>the national agreement betrays “everything we fought for”, while preserving the CWU bureaucracy’s “topflight salaries” and partnership with Royal Mail.

There is widespread reporting of mass resignations from the CWU, as it turns back the clock on all workers’ [..] a benchmark for Amazon-style sweatshop conditions. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/13/fvat-j13.html #Union #Labour #solidarity #workersrights #unions #labor

The #CWU’s deal with the #RoyalMail seems like a cop out – and some members think it is https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/07/12/the-cwus-deal-with-the-royal-mail-seems-like-a-cop-out-and-some-members-think-it-is/

#RoyalMail website shafted again, its broken so regularly it is stupid.

Seemed the best way to pay a #RoyalMail #FeeToPay when they won't let me pay online 😆