Centres in the West Midlands, Nottingham and Northampton, which between them employ 600 people, will close down to make way for the new development at Daventry, Northamptonshire.
This will create almost the same number of jobs at the new centre.
Royal Mail also runs a distribution centre at East Midlands Airport, but this operation will not be affected by the changes.
Read MoreThe Mauritanian Post Office (MAURIPOST) has been equipped with new computer gear for networking countrywide and offering Internet services to the public.
The new outlay would enable the postal services modernise, using new information and communication technologies to facilitate personnel management, bookkeeping, and operations at the national giro bank and national savings bank, officials said.
Read MoreRoyal Mail today announced plans to replace three distribution centres with a new £40 million operation. Centres at Wednesbury in the West Midlands, Nottingham and Northampton, which employ 600 people, will close to make way for the new development at Daventry, Northamptonshire which will create almost the same number of jobs.
Read MoreThe U.S. Postal Service is tossing out the decades-old contract it has with the passenger airlines to carry mail and coming up with a whole new way of doling out mail volume. Gone will be the familiar but worn ASYS (air system) and ASYS-R (air system-regional) contracts that have governed the financial relationship between the passenger airlines and their top cargo customer for the last few decades. The contracts still are in effect but the goal is to have new contractual language in place by May when the extension on the 2001 contracts expires.
Read MoreThe Romanian Post has extended its automated counter network to 210 post offices. At the beginning of the year the number of the automated post offices was 73 and they were located in the main cities. Today, automated postal services are available in all the cities in Romania. The post offices’ connection to the Romanian Post information network ensures the real-time provision of the financial postal services: on-line money orders, Western Union money transfers, and Eurogiro transactions.
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