Incredibly all delivery workers who work more than 25 hours a week - a total 15,000 - face the sack form TNT in Holland!

Staff working 15 hours or less can stay, but may need to work more flexibly.

Machine sorting will largely replace sorting by hand, and delivery workers will be employed on 10 to 15 hour contracts.

Inge Bakker of the CNV public workers union said she was furious that TNT plans to replace long-serving staff with cheap contract workers,and is shocked that so many delivery workers are to lose their jobs in a major shake-up of TNT services.

She also said "Sandd and Selekt Mail have been criticised for underpaying staff. Now TNT is going to do the same thing."

TNT 'say' they have a 6 percent annual volume decline in its postal unit due to email, and that it 'also' faces (ironically) fierce competition amid market liberalisation.

Update 29th June

The company plans to stop delivering business to business and business to consumer mail six days a week, and replace it by deliveries on three separate days. Consumer to consumer post will still be delivered six days a week because of legal restraints.