Postal workers are to bring mail services to a halt on May 8 in the first national postal strike for six years, the Communication Workers Union said yesterday.
The union, which is locked in a dispute with Consignia over pay and delivery standards, said it was calling the action after negotiations had failed. The 24-hour strike could be the first in a series of one-day stoppages.
Read MoreThe Federation of the Electronics Industry, which represents the UKs mailing equipment manufacturers, has branded Consignias proposals to introduce size-ased pricing for mail as a red herring which would alienate consumers and fail to reap the benefits of improvements in mailing technology.
Read MoreRoyal Mail can still deliver mail from one extremity of Britain to the other in less than 24 hours. The story of how a letter posted in Lands End reaches John OGroats in less than 24 hours.
Read MoreMORE than 600 jobs are being created in Plymouth with the official unveiling today of the country’s first state-of-the-art mail centre.
Royal Mail has opened the first Manual Data Entry Centre (MDEC) at its former offices in Pennycomequick to help speed up the nation’s post.
The centre is the first of two being set up in the UK and is part of a national initiative called Address Interpretation (AI).
Royal Mail has released details of a new booking center service that allows advertisers and their agencies or mailing houses to register upcoming activity and get a unit cost for their specific mailings.
Royal Mail said this lets advertisers more accurately calculate the cost of mailing as part of the campaign. The agency said the cost of the package depends on three key considerations: The size and weight of the items; when they need to be delivered; and the number of items. Mailings can be booked with a range of delivery options from next day to seven days.
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