Tag: Royal Mail

BBC Industrial Relations Head joins Royal Mail

Posted by | Apr 5, 2007 | |

Gillian Alford, the BBC’s head of employee relations and policy for the past nine years, has joined Royal Mail as head of industrial relations for the letters business.

Kevin Green, Director of People and Organisational Development for Royal Mail Letters, said: “I am delighted to welcome an industrial relations specialist of Gillian’s calibre and experience.

“She brings with her a strong track record in successfully helping to manage a large workforce and tackling tough challenges in a rapidly changing environment.

“Royal Mail is facing the key challenge of competing effectively in a market open to full competition. At a time when competitor activity is intensifying, we look forward to Gillian playing a central role in the transformation of Royal Mail.”

Gillian said: “I’ve enjoyed working with committed managers and trade union officials during my time at the BBC and I’m grateful for their support. I look forward to building the same relationships in Royal Mail Letters.”

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MBE sets up new alternative ‘Post Office’ venture

Posted by | Apr 4, 2007 | |

Mail Boxes Etc. (UK) Ltd., (MBE) is offering sub postmasters and independent retailers an opportunity to provide alternative postal services under a new franchised concession. This could create postal services in areas where they did not exist previously and would also enable sub postmasters facing closure to stay in business and continue to serve their local communities.
MBE is an experienced franchisor with a rapidly expanding network of more than 100 high street-based centres in the UK that specialise in a wide range of postal, communication and business services for local companies and members of the public.

The new franchise proposal offers a proven business solution that mirrors the existing MBE model and could make excellent use of former post office premises. Outlets in former post offices and convenience stories will handle post and parcels and also offer a wide range of other popular services currently offered by the Post Office network including, for example, foreign currency exchange, bill payment services and money transmission.

MBE’s new developments in this area will be spearheaded the founder of Postmasternet Ltd, a company that successfully courted big business to introduce new income streams for ailing post offices. The founder said:
“We are confident that our proposition will appeal to sub postmasters, especially those who want to stay in their own area and are entrepreneurial. There are limitless opportunities, particularly in places with large numbers of small businesses and people working from home.”

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Royal Mail's Managing Director quits

Posted by | Apr 4, 2007 | |

The Managing Director of Royal Mail’s letters division has left the group unexpectedly after just 13 months in the job.

Ian Griffiths, who was previously group managing director of GKN Automotive, joined the postal operator in February and was a member of the board.

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Fears at Royal Mail move to charge more in rural areas

Posted by | Apr 3, 2007 | |

Royal Mail’s plans to charge more for bulk business mail in rural areas were condemned by politicians yesterday.
The Universal Service Obligation requires the Post Office to deliver mail at the same price regardless of where you live in the UK. But now Royal Mail insists that no other country in the EU is opening its postal markets to competition in the same way as Britain. It says that its commercial rivals in the UK would handle around 2.5 billion letters this year, well ahead of expectations and equivalent to 25% of bulk business mail.
Royal Mail is seeking permission for a new zonal system of pricing which would allow it to charge more for bulk business mail in rural areas. Danny Alexander, LibDem MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, said: “If permission is given for this proposal to go ahead, then businesses and consumers in the Highlands will pay the price. Local businesses will pay more and it may well be that some firms will try to extra charges will be passed on to Highland consumers too.”
Dave Thompson, SNP candidate for Ross, Skye and Inverness West, said the USO was an important safeguard for rural areas.

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GLS plans Spanish acquisitions worth about 250 mln Eur in total

Posted by | Apr 3, 2007 | |

Royal Mail Group PLC’s unit General Logistics Systems (GLS), formerly German Parcel, is planning to expand into the Spanish market through acquisitions and has about 250 mln Eur to spend, chief executive Rico Back told newspaper Die Welt.

‘We are in takeover talks in Spain and are planning to complete those in the coming two months,’ he said.

The company plans to further expand its operations into Romania and the Baltic states, the report added.

GLS is currently the third-largest parcel service in Europe.

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