The Universal Postal Union will allow the country's new postage stamps (eagerly awaited by philatelists) to convey letters abroad.
The Royal Mail worked with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Universal Postal Union in Switzerland to provide the postcode.
The plan results from a meeting between postal officials, a representative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and angry postal union leaders.
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Worldwide mail volumes are expected to grow less than 1% a year through 2008, says the Universal Postal Union, which oversees the globe's flow of mail.
According to the CWU postal union, 23, 000 postmen and women have been attacked by dogs in the last five years, with as many as 70% of these attacks taking place on private property.
From his new perch, Dr. Reich will review applications from underemployed American Postal Workers Union members interested in starting new careers in medicine.
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"They complain about spending money on respirator masks, gloves to protect the workers and equipment to vacuum out the machines, " William Smith, president of the New York Metro Area Postal Workers Union, told CNN in an interview.
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"They don't have a plan, which is very scary, or they do have a plan, and they're just not telling us, " Louie Nikolaidis, a lawyer for the New York Metro Area Postal Workers Union, said immediately after the meeting.
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The postal workers' union, citing information it got in a Postal Service briefing, said the letters bore a Shreveport, La.
The war of words flared as Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier rubbished the main postal workers' union's suggestion that the firm treats its staff as "slaves".
The last national postal strike, when the union had a series of one-day strikes over several months without gaining much, is not a happy augury.
According to a union spokesman, postal workers delivering to the BS4 and BS14 postcode areas were told to "take whatever mail they had at 0930 and leave the rest".
All 27 members of the European Union have eliminated their postal monopolies.
Communication Workers Union (CWU) claim postal workers are "struggling to complete increased delivery rounds".
Hundreds of postal workers and members of the Communication Workers' Union attended a rally at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster.
The Unite union says it will send out a postal ballot in the next few days that will run for two weeks before being counted.
Union leaders had demanded the meeting Tuesday, saying postal officials were not doing enough to protect workers.
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Union officials were in agreement, however, that postal officials had taken too long to start testing workers.
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The Communication Workers Union, which has campaigned to raise awareness of dog attacks on postal workers and telecom engineers, welcomed the report as a "strong and clear in its assessment of the failure of current laws".
Union representatives have announced the first in a series of planned strikes by postal workers in south Bristol ahead of Christmas.
The move is designed to cause continuous disruption to the nation's postal service throughout the period at a "minimum cost" to CWU members, union officials say.
The union's executive will hold a national ballot of its 160, 000 postal members in September which could lead to nationwide strikes in October.
His union is opposed to the current version of the House bill, which gives the Postal Service wide leeway to close post office branches and make employee cuts to balance its budget.
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