MANILA, May 21 (PIA) — The Philippine Postal Corporation (PhlPost) has partnered with the world’s leading express services provider, DHL to provide more shipping options to its customers.

“Our partnership will see us leverage on the extensive network and services of DHL Express to further boost our product offerings and reach. It will extend over and beyond the maximum weight limit permissible and outside of the existing serviceable countries of our Express Mail Service,” said Philippine Postal Corporation CEO and Postmaster General Manager Josefina dela Cruz.

Dela Cruz added that the partnership will enable them to be more globally competitive and ready to serve the increasing demands of customers through the provision of prompt and affordable services.

Read more: PIA | Philippine Information Agency | PhlPost, DHL partnership to boost postal service.

Postal staff in Jersey could be used to check on older, disabled or isolated islanders as part of their rounds.

The idea for the Call and Check scheme came from a postman after workers were asked what other services could be offered as demand for post falls.

Staff who opt in for the voluntary scheme would report anything unusual or suspicious they notice while out delivering mail.

Read more: BBC News – Jersey postal staff to check on vulnerable islanders.

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The state-owned delivery company will unveil earnings of between £300m and £400m in its full-year results this week, up from £211m last year, according to analysts.

The strong performance will boost Royal Mail ahead of its planned £3bn stockmarket listing, expected later this year, in what would be the biggest privatisation for 20 years.

Read more: Royal Mail set to deliver bumper profits on back of online shopping boom – Telegraph.

The news is the latest blow to the Coalition’s plans to privatise the UK’s national postal service by March next year.

Last week it emerged that the Bow Group, a Tory think tank, was warning Conservative MPs against selling off Royal Mail.

The National Federation of Sub-Postmasters, which represents thousands of post offices, will call for an immediate delay in plans to privatise Royal Mail amid “serious concerns over the future of the post office network”.

Read more: Britain's post offices tell Government: 'Don't sell off Royal Mail' – Telegraph.

There are claims that some workers who deliver parcels for Australia Post are being paid less than the minimum wage and are not covered by worker’s compensation or superannuation.

Fiona Lawson claims she is owed almost $16,000 by the contractor who employed her and is planning to launch legal action in the Melbourne Magistrates Court.

Read more: Australia Post subcontractor launches legal action saying she has been 'underpaid' – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

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It could be months before the U.S. Postal Service reopens the post office building in a northeast South Dakota town.

The USPS has been offering service in Ipswich through temporary means since a problem with its rental building made it a safety hazard. During open hours, you’ll find a line of people outside a post office on wheels in the town.

"It’s unusual," Beverly Kilber said. "But it’s better than driving 50 miles to get our mail."

That’s what people with a post office box were first doing after the post office closed its doors and they had to drive to Aberdeen. A leaking roof and other damage lead to the closure. The USPS sent the mobile unit to town earlier this month.

Read more: KELOLAND.com | Post Office Problems.

The move by Canada Post did more than raise a few eyebrows.

Customers have been chirping up a storm over the decision by the country’s postal service to shut down local mail sorting in Prince Edward Island.

All mail now goes to Halifax for sorting by a machine instead of by human hands here in the province. That move was made along with having people now dropping letters into one central Canada Post red box, instead of having the old dual system of one for P.E.I. and one for the mail destined for the rest of Canada.

Read more: Canada Post assessing options to remain self-sustaining in digital age – Local – The Guardian.

A postal union leader has threatened a summer of industrial disruption and campaigning in a late attempt to halt the privatisation of Royal Mail.

Dave Ward, deputy general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, told the Financial Times the union was likely to order a boycott of deliveries of rival companies’ mail without calling a formal industrial action ballot.

That would, in effect, invite Royal Mail and private companies such as TNT Post and UK Mail to seek an injunction declaring the action, launched on the back of a less strict “consultative” ballot, unlawful. Otherwise it could result in up to half the nation’s mail going undelivered.

Read more: Postal union threatens disruption over Royal Mail privatisation – FT.com.

If Royal Mail were invented today it would deliver letters a couple of days a week and parcels every evening. Rather than returning home to a red "Sorry we missed you" card, Fred Bloggs could expect his Amazon delivery to arrive after he got home from work, and would file away the odd birthday card or tax documents that still dribbled in by post.

But Royal Mail – which was founded in 1516 – today still has to deliver letters to every household in the UK every day from Monday to Saturday, under the orders of Parliament.

Read more: Opposition in the post for Royal Mail sale – Business Analysis & Features – Business – The Independent.