Year: 2002

Following Postcomms announcement that 30% of mail deliveries and sorting offices services are to be subject to competition, within months, Consignia & CWU agree that the potential benefits of competition are being lost by introducing the competition too quickly. Any private firm wanting to take over part of its business would want the most profitable part the cities and towns. This could be to the detriment of the remote and rural service. Postcom paints a different picture. It does not think private companies would come in quickly, set up their own delivery system, and swipe the cream of Consignia’s business from under its nose. A spokesman explained that only 7% of mail is person-to-person, such as birthday cards or private letters. The rest of the mail is business related, with 85% directly from one business to another. Postcom expects, that by opening up 30% of Consignia’s monopoly to competition, it will not be your postie on the beat who will be affected; nor will it be deliveries to remote or rural areas; rather, it will be business post.