Royal Mail is set to scrap second deliveries from next year, in a move aimed at saving the beleaguered postal service £350m a year. The move, which comes after a series of trials for a single delivery system, is expected to lead to a second wave of job cuts.
Read MoreThe Communication Managers Association (CMA) section of Amicus, Britain’s largest private sector union, has today said that the price control proposals announced by the Postcomm postal regulator could mean up to 10,000 redundancies for Royal Mail over and above the 30,000 previously announced and threaten the future financial viability of the company.
Read MoreRoyal Mail’s financial problems have been well publicised, and some direct marketers have made a connection between the Post Office’s need to increase its revenues and the decision to move to a size-based pricing structure for direct mail.
The debate has been raging for months, ever since Precision Marketing first revealed the plans (PM May 24). Guy Chubb, production manager for Production Direct, states: “The proposed Royal Mail changes are just another attempt at making money under false pretences, instead of addressing the root cause – an issue of national non-conformance to a set of guidelines that have been loosely applied by Royal Mail, and seriously overlooked for some users.”
Read MoreAngry postal workers at a Royal Mail depot near Bristol walked out yesterday in an unofficial strike in protest at plans to sell off a key part of the Post Office.
The workers are employed by Cashco, which is the arm of the Royal Mail that delivers cash and high-value items.
The action began at 7pm on Monday after detailed plans were revealed regarding the sale of Cashco to privateers Securicor.
Read MoreHundreds of Royal Mail workers walked out yesterday in protest over threatened job losses.
The one-day strike was sparked by plans to sell off part of the business, which supplies 17,500 post offices with cash and stamps.
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