POSTAL WORKERS will today embark on plans for an all-out strike amid a
clash with Consignia, which operates Royal Mail, over redundancies and sick
pay. The main postal union gave warning that the changes to working
conditions could plunge Royal Mail, already beleaguered by poor employment
relations, into “industrial anarchy”.
In early July, ABX LOGISTICS (UK) LIMITED signed an agreement giving it ownership of the European Freight Forwarding Division of Nightfreight International Logistics Ltd.
Read MorePotter Group wins Perrier contract – transhipment, warehousing, pre-retail delayering & palletising
Read MoreAs mail order and e-commerce have exploded in recent years, the Post Office is looking at new ways to cope with the demand for home deliveries. Later this year the Post Office, now called Consignia, will begin trials of a new system where secure metal containers, the size of washing machines, are placed outside selected homes in several hundred London locations with an SW postcode. Each device, known as a Bear Box (right), has a computer code that allows it to be opened. Once the goods are deposited the customer is alerted via email or text message
Read MoreThe ACS has warned of a further drop in sub post office numbers unless the
Post Office Network makes the prospect of taking on a post office more
appealing to independent retailers. In a new report, the ACS Post Office Committee claims retailers’
relationships with the PON are “one sided, unduly restrictive and old
fashioned”.
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