Tag: Mail Services

Union presses for more upfront pay from UK Royal Mail to avert post strike

Posted by | Aug 12, 2003 | |

Britain’s main postal workers’ union, the CWU, pressed Royal Mail to pay more of its 14.5% pay and productivity offer upfront in order to avert the first national strike for seven years.

Talks at the conciliation service Acas, adjourned last night and are to resume tomorrow, with the CWU hoping that Royal Mail will agree to reduce the 10% of its pay offer linked to productivity changes such as ending the daily second delivery.

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Toshiba to provide mail-sorting system to Sweden Post

Posted by | Aug 11, 2003 | |

Toshiba Corp. said Monday it has won a contract worth USD12 million to provide the Swedish postal services with advanced mail-sorting equipment. In June 2004, the Japanese electronics maker will start delivering eight units of its Series TT-1000 systems, each equipped with an optical character reader and video coding system, Toshiba said in a press release. The mail-sorting systems scan mail and recognize handwritten or printed addresses, print appropriate barcodes onto envelopes and use the information in the bar codes to sort mail into stackers on the basis of destination.

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Brazil's BB & Post Office to offer export services online

Posted by | Aug 11, 2003 | |

Brazil’s Banco do Brasil (BB) signed a contract Wednesday with the country’s federal postal system ECT to sell export services to small- and mid-sized companies via the Internet, the government-controlled bank said in a statement. The two federally run entities will integrate their databases to speed up shipping of merchandise worth up to USD10,000. BB clients will be able to handle all the orders and bureaucracy over the Internet, the statement said.

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Firms wait to take advantage of UK post strike

Posted by | Aug 10, 2003 | |

Foreign firms see an opportunity to move in as a strike seems inevitable.

The Royal Mail is in a dispute with the postal unions that could turn the clock back to the disastrous industrial relations of the 1970s.

Evoking the image of British Leyland is guaranteed to send a shiver down the spines of managers and directors. And yet that is what management at Royal Mail is doing.

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Talks to be held in postal dispute

Posted by | Aug 10, 2003 | |

Crucial talks aimed at averting the first national strike by postal workers in seven years will be held tomorrow. Leaders of the Communications Workers Union will meet Royal Mail managers at the conciliation service Acas in a bid to resolve a row over pay. The union has accused the Royal Mail of being “dishonest” by claiming that the latest offer was worth 14.5% over 18 months. The Royal Mail, which is losing GBP750,000 a day, insisted that the offer was worth 14.5% although it was linked to some productivity changes. Some of the extra money is tied to the introduction of single mail deliveries.

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