Crozier attacks TNT for poaching

9th Mar 09 : POSTMAN

Ok,this is getting silly,i'm sure some of this is being made up.

Our leechy friends TNT have been trying to poach the big clients of our parcel arm GLS claiming that they might as well come to TNT as GLS will be owned by TNT anyway soon.

Adam Crozier has sent an e-mail to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (Berr) demanding that TNT are prevented from further damaging Royal Mail.

Crozier's e-mail to Berr

In Croziers e-mail he claims "GLS are reporting to me that some of their bigger customers are being approached by TNT and are being told that TNT will secure a full takeover of GLS,"

"Specifically in Poland one of our biggest customers (the Raben Group) was informed of this by Peter Bakker himself ... and TNT are currently in negotiations on this piece of business!"

"As you know this is a highly competitive market which is in the process of semi-collapse across Europe and there is a real threat that the [part-privatisation] process we are going through is being used by our competitors/bidders to undermine GLS ... clearly not a good outcome for the company or you as a shareholder."

Royal Mail

A Royal Mail spokesman said last night: "The government has reassured us that it is looking for the right partner for Royal Mail Group and it is not looking for a partner for GLS." A government report had looked at selling GLS to solve the pension fund deficit, but concluded "since GLS generates cash, it may also weaken the ability of the company to fund the significant ongoing deficit payments that would still be required".

TNT

"We don’t recognise these allegations at all.If any TNT employees had tried to poach key contracts, they would probably face disciplinary action"

Source:Guardian

All of our readers can see the original news article we have on this in our 'open' Royal Mail Privatisation forum...

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