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		<title>Royal Mail profits reach £1m a day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Royal mail’s profits have reached almost £1m per day as it mulls over introducing rises in stamp prices. The company announced a surprise jump of £171m in bottom-line profits for the last six months. This is in comparison with a loss of £55m last year. It was helped by better-than-anticipated performances by its Post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Office to unveil mutualisation proposals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha Redman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ministers will today unveil plans to put the Post Office under mutual ownership as part of the coalition’s major Royal Mail overhaul. The Post Office may be well on its way towards mutualisation by the time this parliament comes to an end, said ministers, prior to the launch of a meeting regarding the proposals. Subpostmasters, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost letter complaints rise by over a third</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complaints regarding the Royal Mail losing post have increased by over a third amid allegations that over 120,000 items went missing in only three months. The Royal mail received 120,884 complaints from unhappy customers during the three months of 2011, an increase of 37 per cent compared with the same period last year. The number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most Post Office jobs go following £120m loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Russell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[decline in daily post delivery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moya Greene]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Royal Mail announced new job losses yesterday after revealing a loss of £120m in its parcels and letters business after a massive slump in the amount of people sending mail. The daily postbag has dropped from 80m items to 62m items in the space of five years, a 20 per cent decline, with further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Mail sell-off nearly complete</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government plans to have the Royal Mail privatised moved a step closer when legislation ensured the passage through the House of Lords was cleared. The Postal Service Bill is set to return to the Commons for its final stage on 9 June prior to being granted Royal Assent. Parliamentary Secretary from Business, Innovation and Skills [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Mail sell off may close 9,000 post offices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 17:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Russell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[communication workers union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer focus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Davey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government proposals for the Royal Mail sell off could result in the closure of over 9,000 post offices, a new report indicated today. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) carried out research among 800 sub-postmasters and discovered that nine in 10 said they would be unable to survive without business from the Royal Mail, while a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Record rise in stamp price</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moya Greene]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Higher prices for postage in the UK have taken effect – with the cost of a first-class stamp rising by 5p to 46p. This marks a record rise in the price of sending standard letters which weigh under 100g by first-class mail. In addition, Royal Mail has upped the price of a second-class stamp from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal mail to axe 1,700 jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[East London]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Higson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Royal Mail has plans to make 1,700 of its employees jobless. The drastic cuts will see 1,000 managers lose their jobs and two of its mail centres close. The latest batch of redundancies is in addition to the 1,700 workers that the company have already got rid of since the start of this year, bringing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Mail shreds millions of packages each year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Royal Mail destroys millions of undelivered items every year according to figures just released. According to the company’s National Returns Centre some 70,000 parcels, packages and letters end up being returned every day. Although correspondence containing valuables is retained before being sent to auction, the rest is destined for the shredder. According to figures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK postal workers will strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sally Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication workers union]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dave Ward]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crown post office staff have decided to go on strike in a row over salaries and possible branch closings. At the 373 branches of Crown, the members of the Communication Workers Union voted to strike, voting 9 to 1 with a 66% turnout. Strikes may begin before March 31, especially if the scheduled talks with the Royal [...]]]></description>
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