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Unions have threatened strike action after Royal Mail announced that its £7.4bn defined benefit pension scheme will close to future accrual in March 2018.

Five advertising industry leaders have become the new faces of Royal Mail MarketReach’s flagship direct mail campaign, Mailmen.

The Strategic Mailing Partnership (SMP) said three of its most prominent members had joined forces to work on its recent relaunch, which aims to raise awareness and drive membership recruitment.

Direct mail network the Strategic Mailing Partnership (SMP) has rebranded and changed sponsor in a bid to recruit new members.

East London-based print and mail company U 4 Print Services has printed a 6.7x2.4m postcard to hang off the side of a double-decker 'battle bus' commissioned by the Communication Workers Union (CWU).

Mail can have a high impact and provide a strong incentive to act according to new research by Royal Mail MarketReach, which looked at why people found post valuable and why.

Royal Mail is aiming to migrate 90% of its machine-readable mail to its Mailmark tracking system by March 2017, and is increasing the cost of other systems in comparison to encourage uptake.

Ofcom is to review Royal Mail regulation, following the withdrawal of Whistl from the end-to-end (E2E) delivery market last week.

Mail and fulfilment company Real Digital International has invested in new technology to ensure documentation sent to Royal Mail through its Mailmark barcode tracking system is completely accurate.

Royal Mail has revealed the identities of the six regional printers it used to produce celebratory stamps for each Team GB gold medal win during the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games.