Clive Betts MP (Sheffield Attercliffe) has asked Sheffield City Council to assist the re-opening of Darnall Post Office. In a letter to the City Council’s Chief Executive today, Clive Betts says that: * progress has now been made in discussions between the Royal Mail and Darnall Forum about finding new accommodation; * it appears that none of the Council’s much-publicised fund to suppo...
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LabourMatters on 22nd Mar 2010 (via labourmatters.com)
The Post Office should be separated from the Royal Mail to give the business greater commercial freedom, the industry’s regulator suggested yesterday.
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TheHerald on 18th Nov 2008 (via theherald.co.uk)
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.
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Telegraph on 12th Jan 2011 (via telegraph.co.uk)
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...
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Guardian on 10th Nov 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Despite almost universal opposition the Government's programme of post office closures has been deadly effective.
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Telegraph on 8th Nov 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
WITH just over a month to go until Royal Mail opens consultation on the proposed closure of a number of local post office branches in Edinburgh, those opposed to the move are
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Scotsman on 18th Jul 2008 (via news.scotsman.com)
Business secretary promises to keep post office network entirely in public hands as part of plan to allow private company to take 30% stake in the Royal Mail Lord Mandelson today promised to keep the post office network entirely in public hands as he unveiled a series of concessions intended to increase support for his plans for partial privatisation of the Royal Mail. The business secretary made ...
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Guardian on 26th Feb 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
GOVERNMENT plans for the Royal Mail include moving the Post Office into mutual ownership.
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Scotsman on 18th Sep 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
Royal Mail could be sold off - although the post office network will stay in state hands, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
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Telegraph on 20th May 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
POST office counters could be opened in libraries or council rent offices if Royal Mail bosses insist on closing vital branches in the Capital.
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Scotsman on 15th Jul 2008 (via news.scotsman.com)
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 ...
