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More than 600 Christmas staff have been hired by the Royal Mail in Birmingham to handle up to four million items a day.

The army of temporary recruits has been put in place as staff across the Birmingham postcode district process around 24.5 million items in the countdown to Christmas. Meanwhile, a total of 1.5 million parcels will pass through the West Midlands this week alone as volumes soar by almost 20 per cent in the last few days before Christmas.

A Birmingham Royal Mail spokesman said: ‘We expect to handle around 24.5 million items during our busiest week, with over four million on the busiest day.

The new chief executive at Royal Mail, the post office group, is to be offered a pay package that could hit Pounds 1m a year.

The basic salary will be more than Pounds 500,000, but the successful candidate will then have a bonus and long-term incentive plan. While the three-year targets of returning the company to profitability are demanding, it is believed they are achievable.