Most senior postal managers fear that the service has the wrong leadership. In a survey of more than 600 managers by the trade union Amicus, 85 per cent said that Consignia “does not have the right leadership to meet the challenges it faces”.
Read MorePlans to make all drivers at Consignia subsidiary Parcelforce buy their vans and sign personal contracts with the company are set to stretch already tense relations with postal unions at a crucial meeting this week.
Read MoreA national postal strike will take place in the first week of March unless progress has been made in a pay dispute, union leaders warned yesterday.
Read MoreFollowing 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.
Read MorePostal group Consignia has been threatened with legal action after reports that deliveries to thousands of rural homes in Scotland have been cut back to save money. Media reports said that 2,284 rural homes in Scotland have stopped receiving deliveries on a Saturday.
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