Deliveries set to be more colourful
Postal deliveries are set to get more colourful in the north west – and bike-riding posties dressed in bright orange could soon be a familiar sight.
For a rival to Royal Mail is planning to have a team of delivery men and women in place by Christmas.
They will be dressed in orange because it is the company colour of TNT, part of the Royal Dutch Post Office.
With post office deregulation in Britain, a subsidiary of the firm – TNT Post North West – has been launched to cater for bulk deliveries for small and medium-sized companies.
The company collects, sorts and franks mail from SMEs then passes them to the Royal Mail to deliver, all for a discounted rate of around 19.5p a letter, as opposed to 23p from Royal Mail.
But TNT Post North West is aiming to grow its volume to such an extent that it will complete the service, with its own orange-uniformed postmen and postwomen making the deliveries.
The company, set up in March, has a staff of six, and is based in Audenshaw, but is poised to move to larger premises in Denton.
MD Andrew Goddard hopes the firm will be handling 15 million items in its first year.
