MPs are to debate the proposed closure of up to 3,000 urban post offices. The government plans to make £210m available to compensate subpostmasters for the cost of closures, and to improve the remaining post offices.
Read MoreSub-postmasters will be offered two years’ pay to leave the business under “vital changes” to the postal network which will involve the closure of up to 3,000 post offices, it was announced today.
Investment grants of up to £10,000 will be offered to remaining branches to help improve facilities such as more counter positions and longer hours.
The changes will be made under a £210 million Government aid scheme which is expected to be given the go ahead by MPs tonight.
Read MoreSpreadsheet of prices for Fedex & TNT for deliveries between:
Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, UK, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Spain & Portugal.
Twenty UK parliamentarians and RFG members visited Cologne, Frankfurt and Ludwigshafen last month to observe rail freight in action, including post and parcel, intermodal and air services, as well as road, rail and river terminals and BASF’s major operations. We also met DB Cargo, infrastructure provider DB Netz and two independent freight train operators, Connex and Rail4Chem.
We were particularly interested to see how rail freight was operating on the continent, the responses of customers, and the extent to which open access, officially starting in March 2003, had already brought competition for traction, and the effect this was having on customer attitudes.
Thousands of postal workers are to be balloted on strikes in a row over the “blatant privatisation” of their jobs. The Communication Workers Union says the threat of industrial action is aimed at stopping Consignia selling the cash handling operation to Securicor.
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