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Threatened post strike called off

Posted by | Aug 20, 2002 | |

A postal strike which would have thrown Bridgwater’s mail into chaos this week was called off at the eleventh hour on Wednesday.

Last minute talks between bosses from the Communication Workers’ Union and Royal Mail finally resolved an overtime payment dispute which threatened to wreak havoc at the Friarn Street sorting office.

Staff at the office agreed in a ballot at 6am on Wednesday to drop the strike threat, which was due to begin on Wednesday night.

If the action had gone ahead, mail deliveries in the Bridgwater area would have been disrupted for three days until Friday night, with managers from Royal Mail taking on some of the work.

The row had been over whether Bridgwater staff should get overtime payments for covering sickness, which Royal Mail had intended to scrap but is now reconsidering.

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Post workers' fury at parcels on milk floats

Posted by | Aug 20, 2002 | |

Express Dairies has signed a contract with leading direct marketing firm ADM and yesterday began delivering books in Liverpool from an international book club.
The scheme was piloted in Wirral when Royal Mail, then Consignia, paid milkmen to deliver parcels earlier this year.
Company bosses at the dairy now say they expect to handle over 4.5 million items over the next 12 months and are hailing the contract as a major development in their service.
But unions fear it could open the floodgates for other companies to take contracts away from traditional postmen.
Mark Walsh, area representative for the Communication Workers Union (CWU), said: “We’ve argued all along that this work can be done by us.
“When the dairy in Wirral first started up, we helped them get going.
“We were involved in showing them the ropes – but now we find we’ve set them up to go against us.”
A total of around 400 jobs will be lost across Merseyside in the coming week with the closure of Parcelforce’s Bootle and Upton, Wirral, depots.

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Express out to milk new postal service

Posted by | Aug 20, 2002 | |

EXPRESS Dairies said yesterday that it hoped to increase doorstep milk deliveries on the back of its new postal service.
The UK’s second largest supplier of milk and cream has won its first contract to deliver mail from businesses to homes, under the terms of a recently awarded licence from postal regulator Postcomm.
Tim Smith, executive director of the firm’s postal business, said: “There is a sense, certainly in the English conurbations, that you can’t get milk delivered to your door anymore.
“Along with the additional business we will get from doing the postal deliveries, we certainly hope to raise our profile and remind some of the lapsed users of our service that we’re still around.”
Express began delivering mail in Liverpool yesterday on behalf of ADM, a direct marketing services company. The first deliveries were books being distributed by ADM for an international book club. Further services for ADM will be launched shortly by Express in Manchester and Nottingham.
The licence granted by PostComm to Express in late July allows the firm to deliver up to 4.6 million packets and letters from businesses to homes through its network of 3,500 delivery routes across the UK in the next 12 months.

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'Post and a pinta' scheme attacked

Posted by | Aug 19, 2002 | |

A scheme for milkmen and women to deliver mail in Liverpool is “worrying and unnecessary”, a union has warned.
Express Dairies started to deliver parcels on Monday after winning a 12-month licence.
The licence limits the number of deliveries over the year to 4.6m, but there are plans to extend it to Manchester and Nottingham.
The Postal Services Commission (Postcomm) says the scheme is not designed to take work away from postal workers.
However, a spokesman for the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) said: “The people who are best placed to deliver mail in this country are the postmen and women.
“We see this development as a worrying and unnecessary development.”
However, the spokesman acknowledged that with Consignia – owners of the Post Office and Royal Mail – facing major financial problems, the granting of licences such as the one in Liverpool was inevitable.

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USPS to Consignia: Resolve Delivery Problems

Posted by | Aug 16, 2002 | |

The U.S. Postal Service has given UK post office Consignia until September to fix delivery problems resulting from an agreement signed between the two agencies in January. Under the deal, the USPS sends all Global Express Mail and Global Air Parcel Post packages in Europe to Frankfurt, where Consignia takes delivery. General Logistic Systems, Consignia’s pan-European parcel company, then is responsible for delivering the packages throughout Europe. The partnership lets the USPS use a single point of contact for Europe, but the postal service for months has experienced various problems, such as with on-time delivery and with duties and fees that were higher than expected.” USPS says some of the problems have been resolved. “If the [remaining] problems are not resolved by September, the postal service will consider dealing directly with postal agencies in individual countries.

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