Royal Mail denies Mail on Sunday's allegations

The Royal Mail have categorically denied this morning's top Mail on Sunday story that it had stopped giving first class mail priority over second class on Saturdays.

The Mail's article said that customers had been needlessly putting first class stamps on post that has been treated the same as second class,making millions for Royal Mail since the changes were "secretly introduced" in July.

The exclusive said that it had seen a confidential document circulated to managers in mail centres, which says: "Second class traffic posted Friday and Saturday will be processed along with first class posted Saturday, using Saturday first class labels."

However the Royal Mail has hit back at the allegations

Its spokesman David Simpson said: "The Mail on Sunday is completely wrong to state that Royal Mail has 'stopped giving priority' to first class mail on Saturdays. The opposite is the truth. First class mail always has the priority over second class mail at all times.

"There has been no change at all in the service specification for first and second class mail. While we are committed to excellent service for all our mail, first class mail is our priority; we do everything possible to deliver it the next working day. The specification for second class mail is still to deliver it within three working days after posting.

Plotting over the Rawnsley Story

The front page of the Mail on Sunday carries a report that Gordon Brown's violent outbursts have resulted in chair throwing.

Not much of a story perhaps,another example of the Mail's underhand political agenda.

However Mike Smithson points out that

last night front page figured prominently in the SkyNews review of the papers which is available online. A couple of hours later the link had been taken down.So what’s happened? Has there been a big operation to limit the damage from the story which reports that a new book by Andrew Rawnsley is going to make sensational claims that “Gordon Brown has physically attacked his staff in a series of outbursts in Downing Street - and once in America …