Tag: Europe

UK union leaders say stress `pushing mail managers to breaking point'

Posted by | Jul 3, 2006 | |

Union leaders called today for an urgent meeting with Royal Mail after claiming that managers were at breaking point because of rising levels of stress.

Amicus said the workload of managers in the postal organisation had become intolerable following hundreds of job cuts.

The union said the problem was highlighted when a London-based manager asked if he could be demoted even though he would lose GBP15,000 a year in pay because he could no longer take the level of stress he was suffering from.

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UK Government must consult on the future of rural and urban deprived post office services

Posted by | Jul 3, 2006 | |

To demonstrate the joined up thinking it wants from Government the 15 organisations of the Postwatch chaired Counters Advisory Group have written to John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister asking for his Cabinet Committee on post offices (Misc 33) to set out the timetable for decisions on the future of the UK’s post offices. There are so many government departments with an interest in the future of the UK’s post offices that it requires a cabinet committee to join up their thinking.

Millie Banerjee, Chair of Postwatch, in support of the request to Mr Prescott said: “The Members of the Counters Advisory Group share one goal: They want customers to continue to be able to access post office services.

“The Group has identified that unless changes are made, access for some customers in rural and deprived urban areas will be jeopardised by unplanned post office closures. Since my appointment last December I have been expecting the government to issue a consultation document setting out their views. Despite many requests we still have not received even a publication date.

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TNT plans B2C services in European markets

Posted by | Jul 3, 2006 | |

TNT plans to launch parcel services for consumers in several European markets later this year, according to a report in German newspaper Die Welt. “We will announce our strategy for parcel services in the third quarter,” the newspaper quoted TNT CEO Peter Bakker as saying. The aim was to benefit from growing home delivery parcel volumes generated by e-commerce sales, and to use available capacity in its express and postal networks. “We can imagine a launch in France, Great Britain and the Benelux states,” TNT board member Harry Koorstra said. But instead of offering a next-day delivery service, TNT might opt for a slower delivery, he said. Koorstra declined to say whether TNT might also enter the German B2C parcels market.

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French deliver E18m for new Interlink facility

Posted by | Jul 3, 2006 | |

La Poste France, the French post office, is investing E18m to build a distribution hub for Interlink, an Irish company that is owned by the French operator. The firm aims to fill the void created by the closure last year of An Post’s loss-making SDS parcel-delivery service.

The 70,000-sq-ft sorting facility near Athlone, will double the delivery capacity for Interlink, which expects to generate revenues of E40m this year and make more than 15m drops.

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