Following media reports over the Christmas/New Year period of our forthcoming campaign on the Post Office and Royal Mail, we're today asking for your urgent help to get MPs to support EDM 428. We must urgently help the government to think again its proposals for privatisation of post services. Compass strongly rejects the idea that our post service should be privatised. Instead of selling off...

Lobby your MP now to support EDM 428, calling on government to abandon privatisation plans. Following media reports over the Christmas/New Year period of our forthcoming campaign on the Post Office and Royal Mail, we’re today asking for your urgent help to get MPs to support EDM 428. We must urgently help the government to think again

The government has been accused of dithering over a decision to leave the Royal Mail in charge of a bank account used by four million pensioners and other benefit claimants - a judgment that could seal the fate of up to 3,000 post offices. An announcement on the future of the Post Office Card Account had been expected earlier this year but Royal Mail postmasters suspect Whitehall is preparing to h...

Royal Mail could be sold off as soon as the end of next year, the Government has signalled as it published details of biggest privatisation for two decades.

A message from Compass  In Case Not Made Compass showed that the Hooper Report was fundamentally flawed! In April they proved that current market conditions meant the Post Office sell off could lose up to £900M for the Treasury. Even under better financial conditions, part privatisation never represented value for money for the tax payer. This win

Labour MP John Denham has warned that Government plans to privatise Royal Mail – which will be going before Parliament on Wednesday - could spell the end of the post office network. John Denham, Labour MP for Southampton Itchen, said: "In rushing through the privatisation of the Royal Mail, this Tory-led Government is giving no safeguards to our Post Office network. "These plans will result ...

 from the CWU Plans by the new coalition government to privatise Royal Mail have been slammed by the CWU as “regurgitated failed policies.” Despite the company’s strong financial performance and newly agreed three-year modernisation strategy, the government has unveiled proposals to split Post Office Limited from Royal Mail Group and privatise the UK’s postal service. ...

Over the next couple of days postal workers will be on strike. They are striking because Royal Mail have left them with no choice. Management intransigence in the face of a simple union request - talks at the conciliation service ACAS - means the workforce had no option. Compass has released a statement today - Saving

The Post Office should be separated from the Royal Mail to give the business greater commercial freedom, the industry’s regulator suggested yesterday.

The Christmas post has been saved from major disruption after postal unions and Royal Mail agreed an 11th hour ceasefire.