Tag: Royal Mail

London braces for series of strikes

Posted by | Sep 23, 2003 | |

London faces severe disruption as union leaders prepare tomorrow to announce the dates for strikes involving almost 30,000 workers. The capital is being threatened by a wave of strikes that could disrupt education, council services, the Heathrow Express rail service as well as the post. At issue in most of the disputes, including the postal action, is the weighting allowance that is supposed to compensate for the high cost of living in the capital. The sharp rise in London house prices in recent years has fuelled discontent about the level of weighting allowances, with claims that many workers are in real terms poorer than colleagues doing the same job elsewhere in the country. London postal workers belonging to the Communication Workers’ Union voted overwhelmingly for strike action over weighting last week. The union wants a rise to £4,000 throughout the payment area, which includes Greater London and parts of the Home Counties.

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Strike report – major mail users say let us have alternatives!

Posted by | Sep 17, 2003 | |

NOTE – THIS ARTICLE/PRESS RELEASE NOT RE-ISSUED OR ADDED TO WEBSITE/ME-NEWS AS RESULT WAS A NO VOTE.
In view of today’s announcement of the results of the CWU ballot for industrial action over the pay dispute with Royal Mail, Triangle is re-issuing the results of a survey of major mail users (initially released on 29 August). We believe that the voice of the mail user should be heard in this debate.

Triangle Management Services Limited (the leading specialist consultants to the mail industry) has interviewed a sample of Royal Mail’s leading customers and has found that they all believe any strike action should lead to some period of immediate deregulation. The majority (over 70%) of the top users interviewed, who collectively spend around £400 million a year on post, say that if there is industrial disruption then private carriers should be allowed to collect and deliver indefinitely not just during the period of any strike. All would prefer to pay the current Royal Mail tariffs but over 40% would be prepared to pay more – some up to 50% more than they are currently paying. Almost 90% of those interviewed said that a strike (if it lasted more than a month) would have a significant, major or catastrophic effect on their business.

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Royal Mail presentation to Postcomm re access proposals

Posted by | Sep 12, 2003 | |

On 12 September 2003 Royal Mail and UK Mail had oral hearings with the Postcomm Commission regarding the access proposals. Please follow the links below to view the presentations that were made. Certain references which Royal Mail considers confidential have been omitted following its representations.
P:LIBRARYPostalRM presentation to Postcomm re access proposals 11.03.pdf

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UK Royal Mail announces new network for moving mail by air

Posted by | Sep 3, 2003 | |

Royal Mail today announced plans to reshape its air distribution network in the latest stage of the complete restructuring of the way mail is moved around the UK. Royal Mail currently uses 39 flights each week night, from 24 airports, to distribute 6.6 per cent of the daily mailbag of 82 million items across the country. Now, to further improve efficiency and reduce costs, Royal Mail has decided to simplify its network. It will use larger jet aircraft to transport more mail – but using under half the number of services each week night, and operating from just 18 airports.

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Royal Mail improves but misses half its service targets

Posted by | Aug 29, 2003 | |

Royal Mail is today expected to publish quarterly figures showing that it is still failing to achieve the minimum performance standard for over half its service targets including first class mail. Although performance for first class mail improved slightly in the first quarter, Postwatch is concerned that having failed 80% of its performance targets last year, Royal Mail is still
falling below the minimum acceptable standard for nine of it’s fifteen services so early in the year. Meanwhile, the regulator Postcomm, which sets the targets, is currently considering what action it will take as a result of last year’s poor performance.

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