TNT lobbies ministers to allow rival door-to-door postal service

TNT, Britain's largest private mail operator, is pressing ministers to allow it to put its own orange-clad postmen on the streets in a door-to-door service that would further undermine a threatened postal strike, which is due to start this week. Today the Communication Workers Union reacted angrily to separate Royal Mail plans to hire 30,000 temporary staff to help deal with any strike backlog – threatening to take legal action against "inflammatory" strike-breaking plans. But TNT, which had its...