The proposed part privatisation of Royal Mail, as detailed in the Hooper Report, has taken another hammer blow today from new financial analysis carried out by Compass. It has found that the likely...

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...

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

The former chief US economist for Morgan Stanley would run the Office of Financial Research, a new federal office charged with mining market data

by Neal Lawson of Compass. Lobby your MP now to support EDM 428 ‘ROYAL MAIL’ 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

The future of the Post Office was called into question on Wednesday night, after MPs claimed it would be a "catastrophe" if it lost its link with the Royal Mail under privatisation plans.

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...

What should we make of Peter Mandelson's comments about the question of whether to sell off part of the Royal Mail? Peter Mandelson suggested he wants to sell off some of Royal Mail "Frankly, 10 years on, I was surprised this was still an unresolved issue," he tells today's Financial Times. His comments appear to confirm rumours that he will look to sell off a chunk of the Royal Mail, po...

In all the coverage of a possible Labour revolt over Lord Mandelson’s plans to sell off a third of Royal Mail, everyone seems to have forgotten the report from Mandelson's own department last year explaining why our postal service is facing an unprecedented financial crisis. The report made clear that the chief cause of Royal Mail’s huge losses was Britain’s keenness to comp...

Two years ago, Richard Hooper wrote a report on Royal Mail which recommended part-privatising the service, among other measures. And today, with the official update to that report, we learn that his views have barely changed at all. If anything is different between then and now, it's that the need to modernise Royal Mail has become even more urgent. The number of letters they're sending ...