Tag: Royal Mail

UK Post Office Chief appeals to MPs

Posted by | Nov 27, 2002 | |

Allan Leighton, chairman of Royal Mail Group, has written to all 659 members of Parliament, asking them to protest against the postal regulator’s plans for future funding. In his letter, the second he has sent to politicians in the past two months, Mr Leighton says the Postcomm proposals are “disastrous’ and will fatally undermine Royal Mail’s recovery plan. “I hope you won’t mind getting a second letter from me, but time is running out to change the regulator’s mind,” he writes. “He is likely to take key decisions in a matter of weeks which will have huge implications for the future of the UK’s postal service and the network of post office branches. I would, therefore, urge you to write to Postcomm to make your views known.”

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Consignia's cultural challenge

Posted by | Nov 26, 2002 | |

In a fortnight or so, more than 80 of the senior management at Consignia will learn that they are out of a job. The list of casualties will mark the completion of a radical 18-month assessment of the company’s top talent. Stage one, completed last Friday, saw about 320 CVs, drawn primarily from inside the organisation, pared down to 90 senior men and women who will comprise the organisation’s new inner sanctum. The 90 will in effect replace what has until now been called the “Top Y” – a group of 120 – and will take ultimate responsibility for an organisation that announced losses of £1.1bn in June and that now wants to foster a culture where a leaner management supports the rest of the workforce.

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Postal delivery plans axed

Posted by | Nov 22, 2002 | |

Royal Mail has been forced to shelve controversial plans for a single postal delivery until next year after the experiment was branded “a shambles” by the Communication Workers Union. Union representatives held a series of meetings with the Royal Mail to discuss the plans, which were supposed to save the postal service GBP350m a year. Royal Mail says the new service had suffered “teething problems”.

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Leighton puts stamp on the Royal Mail

Posted by | Nov 22, 2002 | |

Commentry from The Times on Royal Mail board appointments.
Allan Leighton’s powers of persuasion apparently know no bounds. When he took on the chairmanship of what was then ludicrously known as Consignia, even his friends told him he was brave, verging on mad. But now he has lined up not one but four heavyweights to join him on the board of what is now Royal Mail.

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