Tag: Royal Mail

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.

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.

The Royal Mail yesterday staged an embarrassing climbdown over its plan to charge small businesses and householders £14 a week for early delivery of their post after its chairman said he had not been told about the scheme. Allan Leighton, chairman of Consignia, which is to revert to its Royal Mail name by the end of the year, said the postal service would now widen pilot projects to see if it could economically deliver small volumes of mail before 9am at £5 and £10, as well as £14, a week. The charges would have hit relatively small users of the mail. Anyone receiving an average of more than 20 letters a day would not be charged.