Royal Mail is losing more than 6p for every stamped letter and parcel which it carries through the post, new figures show

The pension black hole at Royal Mail has increased to more than £10billion, its trustees are set to admit this week.

Royal Mail is likely to be partly or wholly in private hands within two to three years, giving it freedom to escape the Treasury's control and raise money to invest, according to the minister in charge of privatising the service

Foreign firms should be banned from buying Royal Mail, the leader of the men and women who run Britain's 12,000 post offices has said.

Umm, OK then: How about going a different way – not back to nationalisation or further into privatisation? How about real public ownership and workers’ control? Imagine if the Royal Mail became the People’s Post, owned by each and every person in the UK, secure beyond the grabbing hands of politicians and their

Postmen could be given shares in Royal Mail and a say in how it is being run as part of the Government's privatisation plans, it emerged last night.

The man who recommended the part-privatisation of Royal Mail is to review the service again as conditions worsen.

Vince Cable, business secretary, is to announce on Thursday that he has commissioned Richard Hooper, author of a seminal report on the future of the postal service, to update his findings and help shape the coalition's ambitious privatisation plan for Royal Mail

Royal Mail's finance director has departed abruptly, leaving the state-owned postal operator in search of a pivotal figure in what is likely to be one of the biggest privatisations in years

The Royal Mail could be sold off entirely on the stock market under radical coalition plans, The Daily Telegraph has exclusively disclosed. Here we take a look at the turbulent but distinguished history of the British postal service.