Union leaders are expected to call a second pay strike by postal workers in London, threatening further disruption to mail deliveries.
The executive of the Communication Workers Union is set to announce that thousands of postmen and women in the capital will walkout on October 16 to coincide with a stoppage by council workers involved in a separate row over pay.
Read MoreStourbridge-based event and video production company Top Banana has won the contract to produce the first national conference to mark the 90th anniversary of Tuffnells Parcel Express.
Tuffnells is the longest established parcel carrier in the UK, with over 1,500 staff employed at 23 depots across the country. The conference will take place in January 2004 and will involve the entire Tuffnells sales force.
Read MorePostal counter automation software vendor Escher Group plans to set up a joint venture in the UK with a leading Japanese IT vendor to address what they think is a huge opportunity in “topping up” pre-paid mobile phones.
According to Escher CEO Michael Murphy, the joint venture, which is expected to get off the ground towards the end of Q1, will leverage Escher’s flagship WebRiposte software.
Read MoreAn Post is to sell off its mobile-phone top-up operations in the UK and Spain in deals that are expected to raise up to €40m.
The troubled semi-state company is also set to dispose of a number of smaller subsidiaries in an attempt to raise much-needed cash and to focus the company’s management on core activities.
Read MoreAn Post is to stop collecting tv licence fees on behalf of RTE within two years, according to a report.
The business is worth more than €10m a year to the postal agency.
It is to start phasing it out next year and will have fully shed the role by 2005, the Irish Independent reports, quoting unnamed sources.
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