Postal service 'far too patchy'
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The postal service in some areas is "chronically poor", while customers are not always the priority, MPs say.
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The valuable role played by post offices in deprived urban areas has been overlooked, a report says.
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THE general public might not notice it but the Royal Mail is delivering more than nine out of 10 first class on time, the organisation claimed this morning.
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Life & style: Anna Tims: Royal Mail recorded deliveries are not tracked. The customer is paying 70p extra just for a signature at the door.
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New postal reform legislation that passed Congress calls for the first major changes in decades on how the post office works. Few Americans are likely to notice the difference.
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Thousands of postal workers in Scotland are due to escalate action in a dispute over pay and modernisation.
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The government is to shut about 2,500 of the country's post offices by 2009 amid losses for the postal network totalling 4.0 million pounds per week, Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling has announced.
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A leaked survey of Welsh ambulance service staff finds most do not think changes are well handled.
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Internet service provider also says amount of spam blocked at e-mail gateway is down significantly.
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"Sender ID"  technique to stymie junk e-mailers is failing to drawing underwhelming support.
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NOVEMBER 26, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - IT system failures continued to plague the UK government this week, when as many as 80,000 civil servants working for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) had to deal with what is being described in the local
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Snowstorms and freezing rain that hit the Ohio Valley in mid-week have complicated plans for delivering thousands of packages nationwide in time for Christmas, delivery companies said yesterday.
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Underpromising in order to overdeliver can't make up for sluggish operating results.
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New service scans your postal mail so you can read it online.
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But the problem is far more serious for the local population. The lack of street names means unreliable postal delivery and potentially life-threatening delays in answering emergency calls.
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Text messages, e-mails and social networking are challenging traditional mail but Santa Claus at least is receiving more and more old-fashioned letters, according to the world's postmen.
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The Post Office couldn&#39;t deliver more than 2,700 federal income-tax refund checks to Illinoisians because of incorrect or insufficient addresses.