Royal Mail bosses to axe 2,000 jobs

Royal Mail is to axe two huge sorting offices with the loss of more than 2,000 jobs.
Management started briefing staff at the Oxford and Reading mail centers on the radical changes last night.
The GBP 20million shake-up will be seen as hugely controversial as the plan has not been agreed with union leaders.
A senior CWU source said: “This is another example of management driving through unagreed changes and running down the service.” The Reading and Gloucester sites were on an original hit list drawn up by management but a big campaign to save the latter appears to have worked.
Bosses now want to transfer work from Oxford and Reading to a hi-tech mail centre at Swindon by 2009.
Royal Mail claims the changes will help it compete.