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Britain’s Royal Mail has received over 80,000 applications for 18,000 seasonal vacancies, further indicating the deep-rooted problem of unemployment in Britain. More: continued here

Rising unemployment reflected in deluge of responses – up 10,000 on last year – to advertisements for seasonal vacancies Vacancies for part-time Christmas jobs at the Royal Mail are four times oversubscribed, raising concerns over the state of a job market that saw unemployment rise past 2.5m last month. More …

Mirror.co.uk 80000 join stampede for jobs as Christmas postiesMirror.co.ukRoyal Mail hires seasonal workers every year to cope with the extra workload over its busiest period. The recruits are used to support its army of 130000 permanent postmen and women through to January. Royal Mail ran into controversy earlier this year …

Sorting centre to closeLynn NewsTHE relocation of a village sorting office could result in the misdirection of mail, a councillor has warned. Royal Mail announced this week that Grimston delivery office would be closing and relocating to Lynn delivery office from early 2012. … More: continued here

The Royal Mail has received more than 80,000 applications for 18,000 seasonal Christmas jobs – thousands more than last year, figures have showed. More: continued here

Royal Bank of Canada Spoofed within Fresh Phishing ScamSPAMfighter NewsAccording to researchers from GFI Labs, cyber-criminals have launched one phishing scam involving an e-mail purporting to be from RBC (Royal Bank of Canada). The fake e-mail reportedly, pretends to be a notice about an update for customers' account … More: …

Dan Summers, a former postman who now works for the Royal Mail as an information security specialist, has described his… More: continued here

Stamp of approval for Lindisfarne PrioryBerwick TodayLINDISFARNE Priory features on an alphabetical tour of the UK's iconic landmarks in a new set of Royal Mail stamps. It is part of a 26-stamp collection launched by Royal Mail last week that takes in some of the top attractions in all four …

Globe and Mail Commonwealth nations change royal succession rulesCBS NewsAnnouncing the proposed changes, British Prime Minister David Cameron said, according to the Daily Mail: "Put simply, if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were to have a little girl, that girl would one day be our queen." Commonwealth national leaders …

Telegraph.co.uk Somalia: Commandos storm war zone to snatch tribal leaderDaily Mail… the Daily Mail can reveal. In an extraordinary operation in a lawless area teeming with bandits and pirates, elite Royal Marines launched Viking armoured vehicles from landing craft and pushed several miles inland to pick up the clan chief. …