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12 April 2013Did youknow…if we lose or damage a Royal Mail Signed For item, we may be liable for compensation of up to £50.Bullying &HarassmentHelpline0800 587 4777Speak Up(whistleblowing)Report a breach ofour licence or legalobligations to aconfidential externalhotline.Call 0800 097 1131or visitwww.intouchfeedback.com/royalmailDisability Helpline0800 028 6142 oremaildisability.helpline@royalmail.comPensions HelplinePostline 5456 4545or 0114 241 4545(employees)0845 603 0043(pensioners)Human ResourcesRoyal Mail businessunits:Postline 5456 7100 or0845 606 0603/0114241 8890HELPEmployee assistanceservice for freeadvice.Call 0800 688 8777Visit www.rmghelp.co.ukSecurity HelpdeskTel 020 7239 6655 oremailsecurityhelpdesk@royalmail.comContactsHow to get in touchQuestions/ideasto Moya GreeneEmail Justsayit@royalmail.comOr write toFreepost Just Say Itwatch&winPO Box 613, BarnsleyS73 3BBFreephone 0800032 1144Emailwatch&win@royalmail.comCharity fundingsupportEmailroyalmail@charitiestrust.orgTel 0151 284 1221Property& FacilitiesHelpdesk(reporting buildingfaults)0844 800 9191SpringboardDevelopmentprogramme forwomen in nonmanagementgrades.For more information,call Rose Jolliffe on01788 208208(Postline 5926 8208)or email rose.jolliffe@royalmail.comShift into Sportswww.shiftintosports.compasscode: post2012Feeling FirstClasswww.feelingfirstclass.co.ukpasscode: FFC1Royal MailUniformsHelplineRoyal Mail on site0800 731 5137gymsEmail royalmail@ www.dimensions-royalmailfitness.corporatewear.co.uk co.ukprocedures at all times.’CSIS POSTBOX LANDSCAPE MASTER Included_Layout 1 06/12/2012 10:33 Page 1On course for successValuable help... Summer, Nicola andMorissa have benefited from POOBIcourt in the actOur regular round-up of convictionsacross the country. Mick Smith,investigation team manager, says ofthe Alice Hall and Rebecca Scott case(see right): ‘With the help of the police,we will rigorously pursue members ofthe public who target our mail and stealfrom us. Our frontline colleagues can bea huge support to our investigations bybeing vigilant, reporting any suspiciousbehaviour and applying correctNICOLA BRADNICK says she’d struggle toput her daughters through university withouthelp from the Post Office Orphans BenevolentInstitution (POOBI).POOBI offers bursaries for employees who wouldotherwise struggle to pay for their family’s education.Twenty bursaries of £1,200 a year for up tothree years are available in 2013, to help fund afirst degree or equivalent course.Nicola, postwoman at Coventry North deliveryoffice, applied for a POOBI bursary for bothher daughters’ university studies.She says: ‘Morissa is studying zoology at DerbyUniversity and Summer is studying psychologyand criminology at Coventry University. It wouldhave been such a struggle to fund both of them.I saw an article about POOBI in Courier andapplied.‘The bursary has helped so much withAhamed MohammedBADURDEEN, a Christmascasual who stole a mobile atSouth Midlands mail centre,received three months’imprisonment after pleading guiltyto theft by video link atNorthampton Magistrates’ Court.Members of the publicAlice May HALL and RebeccaDorothy SCOTT stole a pouchfrom a postman in Sidcup. Theypleaded guilty to theft inJanuary 2013 at WoolwichCrown Court. Hall received a12-month community serviceorder, 150 hours’ unpaid workand a curfew and electronictag. Scott received a six-monthprison sentence, suspended fortwo years, and a curfew.Jabur HISAN, a postmanfrom Great Barr delivery officewho delayed and destroyedpostal packets, pleaded guilty tocriminal damage and intentionalexpenses such as books. I don’t know what we’ddo without it.’The bursaries don’t need to be repaid.Students must provide evidence of registrationand academic performance.POOBI offers a similar scheme to familiessupporting a young person through vocationaltraining such as an apprenticeship.POOBI was set up by Post Office staff in 1870. It relieson subscriptions from employees and pensioners andthe interest and dividends earned from its financialassets, together with support from the Civil ServiceInsurance Society Charity Fund.Find an application form and more information atwww.poobi.org or send a self-addressed label toPOOBI (Bursaries), 2nd Floor, Royal Mail Islingtondelivery office, 5 Almeida Street, London N1 1AA.delay at BirminghamMagistrates’ Court on 5 February2013. He was sentenced to sixmonths’ imprisonment.Martyn PLATTS, apostman from Wombwelldelivery office, stole postalpackets. 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