GERRY Smith, the managing director of Consignia’s services group, forecast
yesterday that flogging off the 40,000 Royal Mail and Parcelforce vehicles
would bring “significant cost savings and efficiencies.” But those benefits will not be for Post Office staff or the vast bulk of its
customers.
THE ROYAL Mail and Parcelforce yesterday put their entire 40,000-
strong vehicle fleet up for sale in a move denounced by unions as further
evidence of the creeping privatisation of postal services. Consignia, the group formerly known as the Post Office, said its
preferred option was to form a joint venture in which it would retain a 51 per
cent stake. But a spokesman added that an outright sale of the fleet remained
an option.
A PAYROLL company has been forced to use private couriers costing £9 a
letter because of what it says is a sub standard service provided by the Royal
Mail in Gloucester
Royal Mail has missed its targets for first-class deliveries in every postcode area in London, according to the latest official figures. The Evening Standard carried out its own postal survey showing one in five first-class letters arrive late.
Read MoreJeremy Cope, group managing director for mail services at Consignia,
the state-owned company that runs Royal Mail, said last Friday the
number of first-class letters delivered the following day fell to
just 86.5% in the three months to June 30. Cope said the performance was unacceptable, but blamed it on railway
problems in April and May, and an unofficial dispute that involved
tens of thousands of workers
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