Tag: Royal Mail

Postal workers strike looms closer

Posted by | Aug 2, 2002 | |

The threat of the first national strike by postal staff for 30 years came closer yesterday when dates were set for a ballot of 180,000 workers in a row over jobs.
Members of the Communication Workers Union will start voting on August 27, with the result due on September 12.
The union has claimed that the employment conditions of 7,000 cleaners and engineers due to transfer from Consignia to a joint venture with Balfour Beatty will worsen.
General secretary Bill Hayes said loyal workers were having their pensions threatened and job security put at risk.
Any strike would be the first involving delivery, counters and parcels staff since 1971 when there was a six-week walkout.

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Royal Mail back door postal charges rapped

Posted by | Jul 31, 2002 | |

BUSINESSMAN Andy Loynes today blasted the Royal Mail for slapping a 20 per cent increase on the price of pre-paid envelopes, which are popular with small firms.
The controversy comes just weeks after postal chiefs unveiled plans to charge companies £14 a week for early deliveries. They later announced a re-think, following protests.
Now Consignia, the Royal Mail’s owner, has enraged small business bosses by raising the cost of packets of 100 pre-paid envelopes from £29.60 to £35.50.
A range of other products used by companies has gone up by between one and five per cent.

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3,000 Post Offices to close over three years

Posted by | Jul 29, 2002 | |

Four urban post offices are set to close every working day over the next three years under plans to revamp the ailing network.
The sweeping programme will start in January, according to David Mills, chief executive of the Post Office network, who has revealed the rate of closures for the first time.
He told the Financial Times that the scheme to close 3,000 urban branches – a third of the urban network – would start next year at a rate of 1,000 closures a year until the end of 2005.

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Delivery firms can step up business during post strikes

Posted by | Jul 26, 2002 | |

Delivery firms granted licences to compete with the Royal Mail have been given permission to increase their business in the event of industrial action by postal workers.
Industry regulator Postcomm has modified licences awarded to Hays Commercial Services and TNT.
It will allow them to carry out a wider range of activities for existing business customers if there is a strike.

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Board shake-up at Consignia

Posted by | Jul 21, 2002 | |

ALLAN LEIGHTON, chairman of Consignia, is to announce a “radical shakeup” of the board structure of Britain’s post-office group. The move could eventually shave more than Pounds 50m a year from operational costs.
When completed, it will result in several senior managers being made redundant and will eliminate inter- company billing. Leighton wants to simplify the reporting structures and cut the 18 operating divisions.
The group will have two operating subsidiaries, Royal Mail and Post Office Limited. These will be run by separate chief executives and will report to an umbrella company, Royal Mail Holdings.

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