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  • Royal Mail deliveries slump by over 20 per cent during the web age. Royal Mail, Email, Social networks, Facebook, twitter 0

    Royal Mail deliveries slump by over 20 per cent during the web age

    Email and social networks take their toll on service 14 June 2011 13:53 GMT

    Royal Mail has released its financial results for 2010-11, and one thing is clear - it has taken a hell of a kicking due to the rise in communication technologies.

    In the last five years, the time period in which web 2.0, smartphones and tablets...

  • Royal Mail posts world's first intelligent stamp

    Royal Mail posts world's first intelligent stamp

    Clever AR style railway stamps go on sale 3 September 2010 15:44 GMT

    Yeah, yeah, yeah - we know what you're thinking. "Stamps and trains, I better put on my anorak for this one".

    But there is a cool tech angle, we promise. Stick with it.

    For Royal Mail has released the world's first intelligent stamps...

  • Play.com guarantees Modern Warfare 2 deliveries

    Play.com guarantees Modern Warfare 2 deliveries

    You could say it's going beyond the Call of Duty 5 November 2009 17:30 GMT

    Play.com has announced that, despite the threatened Royal Mail strikes on Friday 6th and Monday 9 November, it will be delivering CoD:MW2 to its customers by an alternative partner on the official release date, 10 November.

    The online retailer...

  • UK postcode database gets Wikileaked

    UK postcode database gets Wikileaked

    Royal Mail "looking into it" 17 September 2009 13:25 GMT

    The UK postcode database is reported to have been leaked online over at the Wikileaks site.

    The database is said to contain all of the UK's 1.8m postcodes - as well as their exact geographical locations - data the Royal Mail jealously guards....

  • Buy your stamps online and print them out yourself. Software, Online, Websites, Royal Mail 0

    Buy your stamps online and print them out yourself

    Royal Mail unveils new service 19 September 2006 17:05 GMT

    The Royal Mail today is making it easier for people to buy stamps and send their letters.

    Now customers can buy stamps via the internet to print on to labels and envelopes. The postage includes first-class, second-class, recorded, special and...

  • eBay helps revival in Postal Orders. Software, Online, eBay, Royal Mail, shopping 0

    eBay helps revival in Postal Orders

    Seven per cent of all Postal Orders used for eBay alone 3 September 2006 16:12 GMT

    Postal Orders is enjoying a massive revival thanks to eBay the Post Office has said with nearly one in three Postal Orders sold now being used to pay for goods bought by online and home shoppers.

    The Post Office has calculated that £104 million...

  • Post Office launch HomePhone service

    10 January 2005 21:24 GMT

    The Royal Mail in the UK has announced that it is to enter the landline phone market with the aim to attract 1 million customers by 2008.

    The service will be called HomePhone claims to give users a saving of up to 20 per cent, while providing...

  • Royal Mail produces UK’s first printable digital stamp

    15 January 2004 16:06 GMT

    They were pioneered and introduced in America four years ago, but the digital stamp has now been released by Royal Mail for Britain.

    The principle is the same as the US version; stamps are paid for online, and then sent electronically. The...

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