Tag: Royal Mail

DMA pressures parties to avert postal strike

Posted by | Aug 8, 2003 | |

The DMA (UK) is urging Royal Mail and postal workers to reach an agreement over pay conditions and avert a national strike that could plunge the direct marketing industry into crisis. A DMA spokesman says: “We can ill afford action in this economic climate. Consumers wouldn’t be able to respond, wouldn’t have their orders fulfilled, and it would damage their confidence in the medium. “Advertisers may make switches on their media schedules, and the Royal Mail recovery plan could be thrown into jeopardy. We’re asking both parties to use common sense.”

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UK Royal Mail bitten by watchdog cost

Posted by | Aug 6, 2003 | |

Postwatch, the consumer postal watchdog funded by the Royal Mail, spent more than pounds 414,000 on networking and travel last year – over pounds 8,000 per member of staff. The watchdog, whose lavish spending has angered the lossmaking mail delivery firm, also spent a further pounds 167,000 on furniture, according to its annual report. Royal Mail paid pounds 10m towards the watchdog last year. Postwatch was set up as a successor to POUNC, the Post Office Users Council, which cost just pounds 800,000 a year.

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Challenging new targets set for direct mail

Posted by | Aug 5, 2003 | |

Tough new targets for more collection and recycling of direct (“junk”) mail were agreed today in an initiative that should also cut the amount of direct mail delivered to British homes. Government and industry have signed an historic agreement after many months of negotiation to increase the amount of junk mail that is recycled. Nearly 550,000 tonnes of paper are used in direct mail and promotions every year in the form of direct mail, door-to-door advertising material and newspaper inserts. As a result of discussions with the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), the paper and printing industries, the Royal Mail and local authorities, the Government and the DMA have signed an agreement that sets rising recycling targets.

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UK postal union vows to fight redundancies

Posted by | Aug 5, 2003 | |

Royal Mail has warned that its plan to turn around the loss-making postal service could collapse after it emerged that union leaders were now resisting a key aspect of reform. The Communication Workers Union plans to ballot members on strike action next week after rejecting a 14.5 per cent pay deal tied to shift changes and productivity targets. But a statement confirming the ballot plan yesterday also revealed that the union would not accept wider proposals to reduce the 200,000-strong workforce with 30,000 voluntary redundancies. “We will not do this,” said Dave Ward, the union’s postal deputy general secretary. “It would be signing the death warrant for the entire postal service.”

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Postwatch calls for clarification of the social role of rural post offices

Posted by | Jul 18, 2003 | |

Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for UK postal services, today called on the Government to clarify the social role that it expects post offices to play in rural communities and to provide appropriate funding if it wishes to help secure the future of the rural network. The industry regulator, Postcomm, has been asked to provide advice to Government by the end of July on the future of rural post offices from 2006. Postcomm has asked Postwatch for its views in advance of its submission to Government.

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