Tag: Royal Mail

UK postal workers to ballot on `insulting' pay offer

Posted by | Jul 7, 2003 | |

More than 30,000 postal workers in London will be asked to vote on strike action over an “insulting” pay offer from Royal Mail, the local union branch said today. Workers were said to be angered by Royal Mail’s offer last week to increase their London weighting allowance by GBP100 per year – less than one tenth of the rise they had asked for. At a meeting on Friday, London delegates from the Communication Workers Union voted unanimously to ballot the 32,000 members in the capital on industrial action.

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Postcomm consults on licence exemptions

Posted by | Jul 4, 2003 | |

Postcomm today began consulting on proposed criteria for deciding whether any particular activity should be exempted from the need for a postal licence. The proposed key factors are the effect an exemption would have on the provision of a universal postal service and on the security of the mail. At the same time, in accordance with Postcomm’s policy of reducing regulation wherever possible, the document proposes three new exemptions, which would cover: mailroom services, including a service of carrying mail between Royal Mail and the user, mail services provided within a single multi-occupant building, services provided to licensees by sub-contractors, and minor amendments to clarify and extend existing exemptions.

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UK Royal Mail MD stands down

Posted by | Jul 4, 2003 | |

Jerry Cope, managing director of UK Royal Mail, unexpectedly left the postal company yesterday only months after the completion of an internal restructuring.
Mr Cope’s position had looked uncertain because of the number of senior executives at the head of the mail business, after Allen Leighton, the chairman, recruited Adam Crozier and Elmer Toime to the board. A spokeswoman for Royal Mail said that Mr Cope had decided to stand down. “One of our priorities is to streamline the size and structure and costs of our mangement team,” she said. Mr Cope had been with Royal Mail for 30 years and had been on the board since 1996.

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Half UK night mail trains could have been saved

Posted by | Jul 3, 2003 | |

Ministers came under pressure to stop Royal Mail’s withdrawal from the railways yesterday, after a document emerged which suggested that the organisation could have saved half its postal trains. To the dismay of rail unions and environmentalists, the government-owned company announced last month that it intended to carry all letters, parcels and postcards by lorry or aircraft, in an effort to save pounds 90m a year. The controversial decision ended a 173-year tradition of “night mail” trains. However, an Australian company which took part in Royal Mail’s review of its distribution network has revealed that the organisation could have reached its target of pounds 90m cost savings by axing only 50% of its rail services. Opcom, a Queensland-based IT firm, provided a specialist logistics software package, Planz, which was central to Royal Mail’s reorganisation.

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