Tag: Royal Mail
Which? reveals Top 5 brands impersonated by scammers in the UK
Home delivery companies Amazon, DHL, Evri, Royal Mail and UPS are the top five brands impersonated by scammers targeting the UK. And with Christmas fast approaching, Which? is warning […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: Royal Mail launches UK’s first drone delivery service
The UK’s first drone delivery service has launched in Orkney. The joint operation, by Royal Mail and Skyports Drone Services, will initially operate on the islands for three months. It will […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: Smart appliances could stop working after 2 years, claims Which?
Smart appliances could stop working properly after just two years because manufacturers are failing to provide tech updates, according to Which? Research by the consumer champion found products like expensive […]
Royal Mail cyber incident prevents posting abroad
Royal Mail has asked people to stop sending mail abroad due to a “cyber incident” causing severe disruption. It said it was temporarily unable to send letters and parcels overseas, […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: Royal Mail wants fleet of 500 drones
The Royal Mail wants a fleet of 500 drones to help deliver the mail to remote communities across the UK. In the next three years it hopes up to 200 […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: New Amazon products to be announced Sep 28th
Amazon will hold its annual hardware and services event on September 28 at 9 am PST / 12 pm EST / 5 pm BST, the company announced today. The annual event […]
Tech Digest daily round up: Former policeman loses £3K in Royal Mail scam
A retired police officer was left “devastated and embarrassed” when scammers posing as the Royal Mail conned him out of £3,000. The man said he thought the con-artists were “legitimate […]
HMV and Seatwave bring exchanged tickets to high-street stores
Tickets exchanged or resold through Seatwave can now be picked up at a HMV store right up to the start of an event.
Scanners and Fax machine sales up 25% in UK due to postal strike
Some enterprising young PR has sent me a press release proclaiming that PC World and Curry’s have seen a 25% increase in sales of fax machines and scanners since the postal strike began. What, they still sell fax machines?! News to my ears, I thought they were all languishing in museums right about now.
Niall O’Keeffe, Marketing Director for PC World claims “We’ve seen a run on faxes and scanners, customers…
Opinion: Stamp out striking posties with email
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
For those outside the UK, the reason for this rant won’t mean much but the wider implications affect us all wherever we live. We’re currently in the grip of a nationwide wildcat postal strike in Britain and it’s started to get me more steamed up than that kettle you use to open your partner’s letters.
And it got me thinking, what’s the point of post anyway now we have email. I’ve had a pile of stamps sitting on my desk for months.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for workers rights, fair pay for a fair day and all that, and I love my new postie, he’s very friendly and helpful. But the sooner everyone switches over to electronic delivery and snail mail dies off, the better life will be…
