H & D Media Archive

  • dispatches

    Dispatches

    Two reporters go undercover as agency postmen to find out if the Royal Mail has delivered on claims that it is modernising and improving its service. In 2004 and again in 2005, Dispatches went undercover to investigate the Royal Mail. These reports exposed serious systemic...

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  • BBC Panoram Can’t Deliver Won’t Deliver

    BBC Panoram Can’t Deliver Won’t Deliver

    What is wrong with the Royal Mail? Panorama investigates the service that gets around 5,000 complaints a day, and asks if our once-proud postal service is failing its customers. Reporter Vivian White’s bleak message is that 2010 will deliver yet more bad news for the...

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  • Dave Ward talk about the deal

    Dave Ward talk about the deal

    TUC leader Brendan Barber said the agreement halts any industrial action until after the Christmas period. He said it provided for a “period of calm” in the run-up to and beyond Christmas, free of industrial action, to enable further negotiations to be held to secure...

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  • Brendan Barber Announces Strike Deal

    Brendan Barber Announces Strike Deal

    The postal strikes have been called off until at least the New Year to allow for fresh talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union. TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said the decision had been made to provide “a period of calm” in which...

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  • 30th Oct – Nick Ferrari becomes a postman

    30th Oct – Nick Ferrari becomes a postman

    As postmen strike for a second time, Nick Ferrari donned his high-visibility jacket and 16kg mail bag to deliver the post in South East London.

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  • UK postal strike is to go ahead Dave Ward interveiw

    UK postal strike is to go ahead Dave Ward interveiw

    A nationwide postal strike will go ahead on Thursday and Friday, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) says. The action, to begin at midnight, comes amid a row over pay, conditions and Royal Mail’s modernisation plans. The CWU said it also planned further strikes and that...

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