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Read MoreGERRY Smith, the managing director of Consignia’s services group, forecast
yesterday that flogging off the 40,000 Royal Mail and Parcelforce vehicles
would bring “significant cost savings and efficiencies.” But those benefits will not be for Post Office staff or the vast bulk of its
customers.
THE ROYAL Mail and Parcelforce yesterday put their entire 40,000-
strong vehicle fleet up for sale in a move denounced by unions as further
evidence of the creeping privatisation of postal services. Consignia, the group formerly known as the Post Office, said its
preferred option was to form a joint venture in which it would retain a 51 per
cent stake. But a spokesman added that an outright sale of the fleet remained
an option.
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