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Archive for August 7th, 2012

TNT Post UK bags NHS deal off Royal Mail price hike

TNT Post UK has won another public sector mail contract on the back of Royal Mail’s latest round of postal rate increases.PRO-CURE, a service agency for the National Health Service in four southern English counties has just signed a two-year deal for the private sector mail company to provide its postal collections.

Read more: TNT Post UK bags NHS deal off Royal Mail price hike | Post & Parcel.

Canada Post’s president of physical mail a keynote at Print World

TORONTO—Jacques Côté, the Group President of Canada Post’s sprawling physical mail division, will deliver one of the keynote presentations at Postal World this year. Postal World is a special market focus of Print World, Nov. 17-19 at the Direct Energy Centre in downtown Toronto.

With a significant proportion of all printed material in Canada being processed in some way by Canada Post, the crown corporation has a huge impact on the print, direct mail, transaction and publishing industries.

via Canada Post’s president of physical mail a keynote at Print World – PrintCAN.

Man due in court over attempted armed robbery at Bolton post office

A man has been charged after an attempted armed robbery at a Bolton post office.

Kris Andrew Whittaker, 31, of Bradshaw Meadows, Bradshaw, Bolton was charged with attempted robbery and carrying an imitation firearm with intent to commit an offence.

He is due before Bolton Magistrates’ Court today.

via Man due in court over attempted armed robbery at Bolton post office | Mancunian Matters.

USPS Says It Won’t Deliver to New Student Housing Complex

(MOBILE, Ala.) – A student oriented apartment complex near the University of South Alabama finds itself with no mail service from the United States Postal Service.

It’s kind of ironic that the complex would go without such a basic service because Campus Quarters has just about anything and everything a student would want.

But no mail service?

via U.S. Postal Service Says It Won't Deliver to New Campus Quarters Complex | Mobile AL, Pensacola FL News, Weather, Sports | WPMI-TV | Local15TV.com.