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UK Royal Mail attacks vote ‘opportunism’

Posted by | Apr 26, 2005 | |

Royal Mail yesterday described its watchdog as ‘scaremongering’ and ‘opportunistic’ after Postwatch complained that the organisation was not reinstating collection tabs on postboxes. The tabs, which show when the next collection will be, were removed in 2002. Royal Mail has pledged to reinstate them, where practical, but Postwatch said yesterday it had not been done in many cases and that it may cause difficulties for postal voters in the upcoming election. A spokesman for Royal Mail said it had only promised to reinstate tabs where it was practical and that some postboxes would need to be replaced entirely before tabs were fitted. He also attacked Postwatch’s timing as “opportunistic”.

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Royal Mail breaks promise to customers on collection tabs

Posted by | Apr 26, 2005 | |

Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for postal services, today criticised Royal
Mail’s failure keep its promise to customers to fully reintroduce collection
tabs to post boxes, and warned that this inaction may cause difficulties for
postal voters. Following a Postwatch campaign, Royal Mail agreed to reintroduce collection tabs in late 2004. Collection tabs are important to customers as they
indicate that the daily final collection from the post box has been made.
Despite Royal Mail’s promise to customers to fully reintroduce the tabs, a
Postwatch survey of 2,600 post boxes conducted in January 2005 found that
only 1 in every 3 post boxes had their collection tabs replaced.

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Royal Mail Group silent on post trains return

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

Royal Mail stayed tight-lipped today about a claim that postal trains are set for a permanent return to the railways.

The state-owned group declined to comment on a report that it is poised to sign a one-year rolling contract with railfreight company GBRf to run mail trains between London and Scotland.

Royal Mail ended all postal services on the railways in January last year after failing to agree a new deal with incumbent operator English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS).

Royal Mail claimed EWS’s new bid was too expensive and moved all post to road and air.

The cost-cutting move controversially ended more than 160 years of mail trains and the famous Travelling Post Offices, which sorted letters on the move.

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UK postal workers’ reward scheme to be repeated

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

A scheme to reward postal workers with new cars and holiday vouchers in a drive to reduce sickness absence is to be repeated after attendance levels increased by more than 10percent, it was learned today.

The Royal Mail said 37 workers won a new car, 75 won GBP2,000 worth of holiday vouchers and more than 90,000 won GBP150 worth of holiday vouchers.

Daily attendance levels increased by almost 11percent after the scheme was launched last August, figures showed today.

Sickness absence levels averaged 5.7percent between August and January, compared to an average of 6.4percent in the same period in the previous year.

This represented an extra 1,000 people at work collecting, sorting and delivering mail.

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