Tag: UK

GeoPost UK wins health and safety award

Posted by | Aug 5, 2003 | |

Express parcels group GeoPost UK, Interlink Express and Parceline’s parent company, has won the prestigious Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Occupational Health & Safety Award for 2003. The company received the SILVER award at a special ceremony held at the Hilton Metropole Hotel, Birmingham recently. The award recognises the company’s achievement in raising health and safety standards, and improving performance across its vast 134-depot nationwide network.

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UK postal union vows to fight redundancies

Posted by | Aug 5, 2003 | |

Royal Mail has warned that its plan to turn around the loss-making postal service could collapse after it emerged that union leaders were now resisting a key aspect of reform. The Communication Workers Union plans to ballot members on strike action next week after rejecting a 14.5 per cent pay deal tied to shift changes and productivity targets. But a statement confirming the ballot plan yesterday also revealed that the union would not accept wider proposals to reduce the 200,000-strong workforce with 30,000 voluntary redundancies. “We will not do this,” said Dave Ward, the union’s postal deputy general secretary. “It would be signing the death warrant for the entire postal service.”

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GeoPost UK tanking ahead of the rest

Posted by | Aug 4, 2003 | |

Parceline and Interlink Express’ parent company GeoPost UK is investing over £300 000 in upgrading and replacing its fuel tank facilities, in order to meet specifications stipulated in the Control of Pollution (Oil Storage) (England) Regulations 2001 legislation, prior to the September 2005 deadline.

The legislation requires that ‘companies/persons in control of oil ensure that storage tanks are designed to certain specifications and, precautions are taken in preventing pollution of any waters’. GeoPost UK is half way through its three-year plan upgrading all fuel tanks located across its owned depot network

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R6 offers mailing advice

Posted by | Aug 4, 2003 | |

Two ex-Deutsche Post Global Mail employees have set up a logistics and mail consultancy to assist companies with distribution and postal networks throughout the world. R6 Consultancy, based in Burton Upon Trent, Staffordshire, is initially concentrating on transporting print within Europe, but wants to extend its services to include address and data management, marketing services and transactional mail production as required.

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