BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Ian H]

In my ignorance, as the Royal Mail seems to slide into irrelevancy (along with the idea of an affordable universal letter delivery mandate) amongst all the other delivery companies, I completely fail to understand how a tripling of its CEO's salary can be justified.

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It's dead simple: you know it's on a death-spiral, so rake in the money while you can.

 

[Beebo]

It does seem like a total scandal. They have a loyal workforce who quite rightly want to protect hard won rights, and not go down the gig economy route.

Delivering letters is a complete inconvenience to them. They are trying to price people out of bothering to post stuff.

They are a parcel logistics delivery company now so will be targeting the package delivery sector which I presume is only going to grow.

 

[Beebo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz75px7zl0wo

I don’t know if any of you have been following the Rossi case. A very strange individual who tried all sorts of nonsense to get out of a rape conviction. His whole story was a case of mistaken identity and allegations of being tattooed whilst in a coma in hospital.
But he’s now succumbed to his Covid complications in the USA, which is what got him arrested in the first place when no one could establish who he really was.

 

[Beebo]

In my ignorance, as the Royal Mail seems to slide into irrelevancy (along with the idea of an affordable universal letter delivery mandate) amongst all the other delivery companies, I completely fail to understand how a tripling of its CEO's salary can be justified.

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And we got this through the door this morning.

More dependable, just less often.

 

[Pinno718]

A bit long winded and tech wordy but interesting view that Data centres will quickly become obsolete and dated behemoths due a change in 'classical' chip technology in the very near future as the total electrical consumption of global data centres will exceed Japan's energy demand...