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Ipswich Royal Mail centre under review

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Royal Mail is reviewing its operations in Ipswich Credit: Anthony Devlin / Press Association

Royal Mail is to review the future of its sorting centre in Ipswich with unions fearing that jobs could be at risk.

More than 200 people are employed at the office on Commercial Road, which opened in 1986. The review findings will be known in May 2013.

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Royal mail starts sat nav mapping in East Anglia

Royal Mail staff help to improve sat nav mapping
Royal Mail staff help to improve sat nav mapping Credit: Press Association

The Royal Mail in East Anglia is trialling a new device to map the exact location of homes and businesses in a move which could improve satellite navigation systems in cars.

If it is successful the project will be rolled out across the whole country.

Managers to roll the project out across the UK
Managers to roll the project out across the UK Credit: Press Association

Postal workers will be mapping the GPS longitude, latitude and altitude co-ordinates of every property in East Anglia.

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