Foreign postal operators are lining up to move into the lucrative market for bulk business mail following the decision to remove Consignia’s monopoly, which has put further pressure on the embattled company.
Read MoreCargo Service Centre is shedding more than 30 jobs from its handling operat ion at Heathrow. alongside a restructuring of the business under new MD Paul Arnold.
The moves are a response to a drop in business at Heathrow.
Its four-person customer service division has been scrapped. l)utv managers will take over customer service.
Rural businesses and communities in the Midlands could be crippled by the decision to open up postal services to competition, it was claimed yesterday.
The Country Land and Business Association claimed the two key aspects of the postal service – the national network of 17,500 post offices and the universal service obligation – were threatened by the proposals.
CONSIGNIA, the troubled postal group, has told union leaders that it will tolerate token industrial action as a means of keeping protracted pay talks going.
The Communication Workers Union last week won a ballot for industrial action and has 28 days to implement it. Union leaders are due to meet tomorrow to discuss what type of action might be taken.
Both sides have said they want to carry on negotiations at Acas which today enter their third week. If the union takes no action within 28 days it will lose its mandate and will be forced to reballot.
THE Post Office yesterday lambasted as “alarmist and speculative” fears that the axing of tens of thousands of jobs in the face of crippling losses could trigger a black hole in its pension fund.
The Post Office, now renamed Consignia, was responding to a weekend report that there could be a pensions shortfall of £600 million, according to a report by accountants Arthur Andersen for Postcomm, the company’s regulator.
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