Jersey Post reveals re-structuring plans

Jersey Post has announced details of a new organisational structure which will come into effect on 1 April.

Jersey Post has announced details of a new organisational structure which will come into effect on 1 April.

It streamlines Jersey Post into two autonomous trading businesses, separating from the traditional ‘postal services’ operation.

A new ‘enterprise group’ will concentrate on the further development of its technology-based solutions for businesses in an ever increasingly digital world.

The twin-headed, new business structure eliminates the chief executive role and, as a consequence John Pinel, is standing down after 14 years in the post.

Jersey Post’s chairman, Mike Liston, said that the new business structure reflected the twin pressures of cost reduction in its core postal operation and the pace of technological innovation it had to maintain. He said: ‘‘Jersey Post’s core business transports nearly 100m packets, parcels and letters a year, in a well established, very competitive and regulated market where cost efficiency is the main management imperative. But the company has also developed a platform of digital mail services such as ‘hybrid mail’ under which it uses smart technologies to turn raw data from its mainly corporate customers, into documents, brochures and such, which it sends electronically for conversion into a physical form, only when it nears its final destination.’’

Liston said that Jersey Post, which was incorporated in 2006, was also poised to launch a new service which would revolutionise worldwide on-line shopping for Islanders. ‘‘Integrating electronic and physical mail is key to Jersey Post’s place in a modern economy like ours, and the new business structure we’re putting in place gives this highest priority.”

“Pinel has played a leading role over the years in establishing Jersey Post as a highly capable postal operator, whose efficiency has been widely acknowledged, most recently by the Jersey Competition regulatory Authority in its comprehensive Efficiency Review. He can be proud of his team as it prepares for the next stage of Jersey Post’s development as a dynamic and innovative player in the modern world of communications,’’ said Liston.