The book, Dear Granny Smith, is written by a working postie and describes the job of a postal worker 30 years ago, and compares this with the job today, as you can imagine it is highly critical of the current set up at RM. The author writes under the pseudonym Roy Mayall and has a blog here and at the London Review of Books. Roy is especially critical of the current Labour governme...
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OrganizedRage on 3rd Feb 2010 (via organizedrage.com)
Royal Mail's regulatory frame work "isn't working", business secretary John Hutton has said.
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ePolitix on 20th Sep 2008 (via epolitix.com)
Asked whether the Prime Minister was worried about the prospect of several thousand job losses in Royal Mail, the PMS replied that the Royal Mail had set out their position on that story. It was his understanding that the Royal Mail had said they had no plans for 16,000 job cuts. In terms of staffing at Royal Mail, it was an operational matter for the company and the PMS would leave it to them to ...
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DowningStreetSays on 6th Feb 2009 (via downingstreetsays.com)
In the last ten working days the Royal Mail has delivered letters to my house twice. On those two occasions I received my large piles of snail mail in the late afternoon. I also receive, on average, two letters a...
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CentreRight on 8th Oct 2009 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Ritchie’s got a book out. Impeccably researched and packed with new insights, this groundbreaking book exposes financial capitalism’s best kept secret.” John Christiansen, Director, Tax Justice Netork International Secretariat, London. Nice to see someone entirely unconnected with Ritchie, someone with no political, economic or even working link, providing such a glowing review.
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TimWorstall on 8th Jan 2010 (via timworstall.com)
The new Globe and Mail best-seller list is out. For the seventh week in a row, Shakedown is on it -- holding strong at fourth place. Michael Ignatieff's book is at third place -- apparently he sold just 120 more books last week than I did! If he promises to read my book on freedom of speech -- a true liberal value, by the way -- I promise in return to read his book!
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EzraLevant on 16th May 2009 (via ezralevant.com)
Today the postal workers’ union, the CWU, are lobbying parliamant against the partial sell off of the Royal Mail. The government claims it is necessary to sell a one third stake in Royal Mail due to the huge hole in the pension fund, but Royal Mail took an 18 year contributions holiday on employer side
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SocialistUnity on 24th Feb 2009 (via socialistunity.com)
A couple of weeks ago, I met with reresentatives of the Royal Mail about their plans to relocate delivery offices in Hammersmith & Fulham. The Royal Mail have now confirmed that residents will not have to travel out of the...
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TheBristowBlog on 4th Aug 2008 (via thebristowblog.typepad.com)
Spread widely through the media today is the latest development in that long-running saga, the "privatisation" of the Royal Mail. It is covered in The Times which warns that there might be "50,000 jobs at risk" in break-up of Royal Mail, and by The Daily Telegraph which tells us that a "£3billion Royal Mail sell-off could be agreed today." From this we learn that the "state-owned firm that r...
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EUReferendum on 16th Dec 2008 (via eureferendum.blogspot.com)
The Communication Workers Union condemns plans announced today to privatise Royal Mail and vows to fight the politically motivated move by all means. A YouGov poll last month found a majority of voters of every party oppose privatising Royal Mail with support at only 15 per cent. At the same time, Royal Mail is a market
I started writing this post just before the London election, when I returned from my local Waterstone's where I was struck by a special display on books about the US Presidential candidates. There were books about, and crucially by, all...
