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A letter mailed in 1916 arrived at its intended address in London more than 100 years later. Photo courtesy of the Norwood Society/Twitter Feb. 20 (UPI) -- A London man who received a letter addressed to a former resident of his home was shocked to discover it had been mailed more than a century earlier in 1916. Finlay Glen said the letter arrived a couple years ago at his address on Hamlet Road in south London, but it was addressed to an unfamiliar name and bore an extremely old stamp and postmark. "We noticed that the year on it was...

Data has been shared with third parties without people having the option to opt out or without even being made aware that this is happening”.. As if the liberty erasing connotations of vaccine passports were not enough on their own, it has been revealed that the Scottish government has allowed data from the scheme to be shared with private companies including Amazon. The Daily Record reports, “We have learned the NHS mobile phone app which presents the personal medical information in the form of a QR Code shares data with companies including Amazon, Microsoft, ServiceNow, Royal Mail and an AI...

A postman who stole dozens of letters and parcels as part of a £500,000 credit-card fraud cannot be deported to the Ivory Coast because he has children in Britain. Despite committing what both a judge and the Home Office described as “a serious breach of trust”, Harnault Hospice Kassi convinced an immigration tribunal that his removal would breach his right to family life. The ruling is the latest in a growing number of cases of foreign-born criminals using human rights laws to prevent their removal from Britain. It means Kassi, 39, cannot be returned to his home country, even though...

More than 100 million Royal Mail shares were traded within 60 minutes of the former monopoly floating on the stock market yesterday. Their price jumped instantly from £3.30, the sale price set by ministers, to £4.50, allowing critics to say the Government had chronically undervalued the business. The price closed at £4.55—a 38 percent increase on the opening price. The 378-year-old company looks set to join the FTSE index of Britain’s 100 biggest listed companies, joining household names from BP to Prudential and Vodafone to Diageo. …

Small investors who have applied for shares in Royal Mail could be sitting on a profit of hundreds of pounds, according to early City forecasts. A late rush has pushed demand to levels experienced during the privatizations of the late Eighties when British Gas and other state industries were sold off. … Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary, renewed his calls for the sale to be pulled because the shares were too cheap. He said: “The Government should never have valued the company so low in the first place. It appears to be selling it at an undervalue. The Government...

Britain's militant postal union yesterday warned of “inevitable” strikes as the dispute over plans to privatize Royal Mail becomes increasingly bitter. … Despite the union’s upcoming ballot, the Government said it will not alter its decision to sell shares in Royal Mail in this financial year. The Royal Mail said industrial action, or the possibility of disruption, was damaging to the business, especially in the run-up to Christmas, which is the busiest time for the company. …

People will be offered the chance to buy shares in Royal Mail in the next 12 months, ministers have told MPs. The formal announcement from Business minister Michael Fallon starts the clock on what is set to be the biggest privatization for over 20 years. … Royal Mail is expected to raise between £2 billion ($3.1 billion) and £3 billion ($4.6 billion) when it is privatized. Any selloff will rival the “Tell Sid” privatizations of British Gas and BP in the mid-1980s Thatcher government. …

Britian's postal service has rejected "Benny Hill" for a stamp because his girl-chasing ways are no longer politically correct. Royal Mail, as the post office is called there, had been considering a stamp to honor the famously naughty British comic as part of group of stamps to mark the 40th anniversary of his network, ITV, according to a report yesterday in London's Daily Telegraph. But, according to the minutes of a committee making the decision, the PR arm of the Royal Mail raised an objection saying Hill's antics were "in direct opposition to [the] company's policies on harassment in the...

  Religious stamps welcomed   Stamps ... religious theme  Published: Today   THE Church of England has welcomed the Royal Mail's return to a religious theme for its 2007 Christmas stamp collection. It follows criticism last year about a lack of Christian images on the designs. This year’s set of eight stamps is illustrated with pictures either of angels or the Madonna and Child. Next year’s collection is expected to feature classic pantomime characters, according to a Royal Mail spokesman. “Royal Mail alternates annually between secular and religious Christmas stamps,” the spokesman said. “Last year featured a series of...

Junk mail postman 'still in job'   Roger Annies advised people how to reduce their junk mail A postman suspended for telling people how to stop receiving junk mail says he remains a Royal Mail employee, but will know if he is to be sacked in a week. Roger Annies, 45, attended a disciplinary hearing after circulating his own leaflet on his round in Barry, south Wales, about unsolicited mail. Royal Mail said their "door to door" service was vital to its business and keeping costs to customers down. Some residents in Barry said they may start a petition...