Demand for courier services in the U K has increased by 17% over the last five years and will grow a further 11% by 2006, says a new report from MSI.
The impact of electronic transmission has been reduced k the development of new market sectors, with electronics. IT and telecommunications companies ironically leading the way.
Leaders of 145,000 postal workers will meet tomorrow to decide whether to call a series of strikes as part of a campaign to win a 5% pay rise.
The Communication Workers Union executive meeting follows an overwhelming vote in favour of industrial action.
CONSIGNIA has been forced to scrap controversial plans to end early-morning deliveries following a campaign by The Mail on Sunday to save the Royal Mail.
But Consignia chief executive John Roberts has warned that the price of keeping early-morning deliveries could be thousands more job losses.
Radical plans to axe 30,000 jobs at the Post Office could blow an £800m black hole in its pension fund. The warning of the potentially devastating shortfall is buried in a report by accountant Arthur Andersen for Post Office regulator Postcomm.
Read MoreThe shambles of the Post Office/ Royal Mail/Consignia is self- inflicted. Management wailing about the regulator (the clearest indication that Corbett and Co are doing a good job) and private operators ‘cherry picking’ bulk mail is the last desperate excuse of a management that has failed to pay any attention to one of its biggest and wealthiest customers – the direct mail industry.
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