The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) membership have voted to accept both collective agreements negotiated by the union with Canada Post Corporation (CPC).
Members ratified the Urban Mail Operations agreement by a vote of 65.4%. The Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMC) ratified their agreement by a vote of 86.8%.
Read MoreSagawa Express Co. and Japan Post have agreed to join forces in the delivery of direct mail to households.
The two entities aim to slash costs and expand their customer bases by having Sagawa collect marketing materials and other direct mail from corporate clients and Japan Post deliver them to homes. They are also eyeing jointly handling personal correspondence – on which Japan Post has a near monopoly – in the near future.
Read MoreThe Dutch post office is threatening to tear up its plans to set up in direct competition with Royal Mail, claiming that the Government’s deregulation proposals are flawed.
TPG Post, which owns the TNT delivery service, already has a licence to deliver mail in the UK and is expected to be the biggest threat to the loss-making Royal Mail when the market is fully open by 2007.
But in a letter to the postal regulator, Postcomm, TPG warns that, as the proposals stand, it will “have to fundamentally reconsider its business plans for establishing an alternative delivery network”.
Read MoreSenior Royal Mail executives have been trained to deliver mail, drive security vans and work in post offices in readiness for the 24-hour postal strike in London.
The managers, who earn up to £80,000, will be doing the jobs of staff who earn less than £200 a week.
They have been trained to give out pensions and deal with bonds and tax discs.
Managers will also distribute special delivery letters and parcels.
Regular first and second class letters will be left undelivered until the strike by 30,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) ends.
Read MoreThe decision by Royal Mail to abandon trains in favour of road transport was bitterly opposed by the Department of the Environment.
In a private letter to the leader of the rail network’s biggest union, the Environment minister Lord Whitty registered his dismay over the move, declaring it was in contradiction to government policy.
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