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 ...

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...

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.

Royal Mail could be sold off - although the post office network will stay in state hands, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

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 ...

The government is proposing to turn the Post Office into a mutual, owned by staff, sub-postmasters and communities, by the end of this parliament alongside its plan to privatise Royal Mail

Despite almost universal opposition the Government's programme of post office closures has been deadly effective.

The government is increasingly concerned that companies are being put off bidding for a stake in running Royal Mail by the ferocity of the political and trade union opposition to proposals to part-privatise the business. The business department has been in talks with other postal companies - in particular TNT, the former Dutch post office and Deutsche Post - about whether, and on what terms, they ...

Thousands of post offices could be under threat if Royal Mail is privatised, sub-postmasters are warning.

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