Royal Mail

Royal Mail could fall under the total control of a foreign buyer in a deal which could be done as early as next year

The controversial part-privatisation of Royal Mail could be completed by April after the government appointed UBS to help secure outside investment

The postal union is mobilising for 'the fight of its life' to destroy the Government's plans to privatise Royal Mail

Gordon Brown is facing his biggest revolt yest over plans to sell the Royal Mail to foreign investors

Royal Mail's highly profitable parcels business faces ferocious new competition from firms planning to do deals with corner shops and garages

Barratt Developments is evidently worried about the impact the postal strike could have on take up of its planned £720.5m cash call

Royal Mail workers are this week expected to vote overwhelmingly in favour of a national strike that will disrupt the postal service

The Royal Mail has been hit with another fine by the industry's regulator after being accused of securing 'unfair commercial advantage'

The price of a first class stamp goes up by 5p to 46p today and by 4p to 36p for second class post, with the Royal Mail insisting they are still among the lowest in Europe

The Royal Mail could axe 40,000 jobs in the next five years as it is squeezed by falling post volumes and looming privatisation

Royal Mail bosses have shared more than £10m in bonuses for implementing controversial cost-cutting measures

Royal Mail has admitted it destroys an average of 25m letters, packets and parcels every year

Royal Mail is to charge customers £210 a year if they choose to collect letters and parcels from sorting offices rather than wait for the postman

Royal Mail staff would be given 10% of shares in any future flotation of the company, Vince Cable said today

Online retailers and small businesses are threatening to switch to rival parcel couriers after workers at the Royal Mail voted to strike over job security and working conditions

A huge increase in the Royal Mail's pensions deficit saw the postal group's profits plunge 86% in the first six months of the financial year, it said today

The BBC, banking giants HSBC and HBOS and mobile phone groups O2 and Orange are all set to give the Royal Mail the sack

The Royal Mail has spent almost £5m on four billion red rubber bands in the last five years, it has been revealed

Royal Mail is seeking a fivefold increase in revenue from unsolicited post in three years, according to an insider

Plans to part-privatise Royal Mail have hit an immediate setback, with the two most likely bidders showing a marked lack of enthusiasm.

The future of Royal Mail has been secured after the Government agreed to inject £2bn into the insolvent organisation

Royal Mail's income from customer penalty fees soared by 50% after it created mass confusion by changing the way it charges for letters

Royal Mail management has hit out at criticism from Lord Mandelson that the organisation has failed to modernise

Postal union leaders will today choose whether to accept a deal on pay and conditions and cancel further strikes, with both sides tight-lipped on Friday 's deal

The Royal Mail could be part-privatised into a John Lewis-style partnership, says Trade and Industry Secretary Alan Johnson

Profits at the Royal Mail have more than doubled amid deep cuts in services and 2,500 post office closures

Brussels regulators are to launch a full-blown investigation into alleged Government subsidy of the Royal Mail

Royal Mail was left reeling today after it emerged two of its biggest customers, BT and British Gas, have dumped it in favour of Dutch group TNT

Chairman Allan Leighton has won a private pledge from the Government that he can partially privatise the company

Royal Mail announced the biggest ever rise in the cost of a stamp yesterday

Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton is locked in a furious power struggle with the Government over the company's £1.75bn rescue plan

A 'fat cat' row erupted at Royal Mail today as it emerged that six directors have received £1m pay and bonus packages

Royal Mail has bowed to its striking workers with a pay package which gives them more money for less work, sparking anger in private sector corners

The boss of Royal Mail quit abruptly yesterday to take the helm at ITV after making a 'car crash' of the once-great post service

Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier was paid nearly £3m last year, despite a skyrocketing complaints over late, lost and stolen letters

Business leaders and consumers have launched an attack on the new postage prices coming into force today

As postal workers learn of their latest bonus, the Government watchdog investigates their role in the cheque-clearing process

Royal Mail admitted yesterday that it is insolvent even as it awarded its new boss a bonus equal to the Prime Minister's salary

The Royal Mail principle of delivering letters to every home and business in the country for the same price is under threat, a report warns today

Britain's world-famous red pillar boxes are at risk from controversial plans to sell Royal Mail to a foreign buyer

Royal Mail has 'lost' 2.bn business letters - one in eight - to private competition in the past 12 months, raising fears of a slump in profits

Postworkers' leaders fear that new sorting machines could turn swathes of the workforce into part-timers

A threatened national postal strike would permanently cripple Royal Mail, giving rivals the chance to poach its business, say company bosses

Royal mail admitted yesterday to its worst Christmas post performance since records began.

The Royal Mail has named Canadian Moya Greene as its chief executive, making her the first woman to take charge of the postal service

More than two months ago, I sent £200 by special delivery, which guarantees next-day delivery. It didn't arrive, but Royal Mail won't pay up

Royal Mail customers are abandoning first class post because they cannot afford it, the company has admitted

Plans to privatise Royal Mail have been revived by the Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable

Royal Mail is planning to axe up to 16,000 jobs, it emerged last night, putting the Saturday service at risk

Royal Mail has picked Smiths Group chairman Donald Brydon as its top choice to lead the company through its part-privatisation

A new threat to Royal Mail emerged today after a deal was announced to merge two firms responsible for handling 270m items of mail a year

Doubts were raised last night about figures published by Royal Mail showing a record-breaking performance delivering first-class post

Customers flocked to stop the flood of unwanted junk mail yesterday but the Royal Mail's opt-out service was branded a sham

Royal Mail claimed today that services were improving for consumers as it released its latest quarterly figures

As it unveiled a huge rise in profits, the Royal Mail warned it could be bankrupted by a £4bn black hole in its pension fund that it cannot fill

Royal Mail could be forced out of business within three years if rival services are allowed unfettered competition, executives have warned

I have paid into my Royal Mail pension for many years. How can the Government now say pensions may have to be cut?

A plan by regulator Postcomm to partly privatise Royal Mail will fail because of the company's huge and growing pension deficit, according to a leading independent consultant

The Royal Mail service, which delivers letters anywhere in the country for one price, has made a loss for the first time in 160 years

The mail regulator has imposed restrictions on future stamp price rices as Royal Mail puts an extra 2p on the price of a first-class stamp

Foreign firms were vying to buy up large chunks of Royal Mail after it emerged that Lord Mandelson has drafted a £3bn plan to part-privatise the service

Royal Mail today unveiled a 13% increase in profits to a record £609m, just as it has agreed a £1.75bn rescue package with the Government

Royal Mail has been handed a record £11.7m fine for disastrous failings in one of the worst years in its history

Postal workers are to be given stakes in Royal Mail under radical Government plans to sell it off this year

A Fresh wave of postal strikes was looming last night as unions reacted with fury to plans to privatise the Royal Mail within months

Royal Mail's £8.4bn pension black hole will be dumped on taxpayers within months, the government has revealed

Royal Mail was accused of providing an 'appalling' service after it emerged some customers are having letters delivered on alternate days

Royal Mail is to make redundant 2,000 middle managers, many earning more than £40,000, as it simplifies its chain of command

Royal Mail plans to model its controversial employee share scheme on one that has delivered thousands of pounds of profit to workers at Unipart

The Royal Mail must be sold off to the highest bidder, a report will say today, shifting the company's £10.3bn pension fund deficit to the taxpayer

Thousands of postal workers will have to work an extra five years to qualify for a full pension, their union claimed today

The Department for Work and Pensions has awarded its massive bulk mailing contract to a private company, UK Mail

Royal Mail profits are plunging as households continue to abandon letters in favour of emails and text messages.

The Royal Mail may be forced to sell off profitable businesses including its European parcels division, General Logistics Systems, in exchange for a government bailout of its pension scheme

One in three letters is handled by a rival to the Royal Mail, the state-owned firm admitted yesterday

Royal Mail is planning to put up the price of first class stamps by a record 3p amid claims it is facing financial disaster