Post Office may charge extra for early-morning mail
DELIVERIES of letters to homes before 9.30am may be ended unless residents pay special fees, under plans being put forward by the postal watchdog to cut delays.
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Trouble in the post for Consignia
Postcomm will decide this week whether to accept Hays DX s application for a local licence.
Read MoreConsignia fleet deal leads outsource trend
Consignia, the rebranded UK post office, is following in the footsteps of French cousin La Poste in outsourcing its 40,000-vehicle fleet serving the Royal Mail and Parcelforce. It is likely that other UK large vehicle fleet operators will follow suit and decouple their non-core transport operations as haulage costs look set to rise. Lex Transfleet expects the outsource
trend to gather pace.
Public will lose most: Outsourcing of Consignia's fleet
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.
Postal workers may strike over Royal Mail vehicle fleet sell-off
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.
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