Plans to cut more than 500 MC Royal Mail jobs in Midlands

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Plans to cut more than 500 Royal Mail jobs in Midlands
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More than 500 jobs could be lost in the Midlands if Royal Mail's cost-cutting plans are approved.

The company is planning to close the Leicester Mail Centre and downgrade the Derby and Worcester sites to delivery offices.

Leicester's mail processing would move to Northampton, Derby's to Nottingham and Worcester's to Wolverhampton.

A spokesman from Royal Mail said he was confident the company would be able to avoid compulsory redundancies.

Royal Mail's senior external relations manager, Richard Hall, said he hoped the reduction in posts could be achieved through voluntary redundancies, redeployment and natural wastage.

Staff 'shock'

Mark Greenhill from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said staff were disappointed about the news.

"We had an inkling as union reps that they were going to shut us [Leicester] down but it came as a great shock to the postmen and women who came in this morning and were told the news.

"We have a meeting next week and will discuss the next steps."

The plans are subject to a consultation period which should finish by the autumn.

Derby would lose 182 posts, Leicester 280 and Worcester 97, out of a Midlands workforce for 17,500.

Paul Jobling, regional operations director of Royal Mail Midlands, said: "Royal Mail's modernisation programme, which is vital to ensuring a successful future for the letters and parcels business, depends on having the right number of people in our business as well as deploying the right technology and equipment."

Royal Mail said the number of items posted each year in the Midlands had fallen by more than 400 million since 2006

[slave]

I'm sorry but it's no shock, they've merged elsewhere and they'll continue to do so across the whole country..

And if they get P&L in right across the country it'll be DOs next..

[TrueBlueTerrier]

I'm sorry but it's no shock, they've merged elsewhere and they'll continue to do so across the whole country..

And if they get P&L in right across the country it'll be DOs next..

Its not DOs Next - its DOs now - Plenty of stories on here about local communities and politicians, and even the Speaker of the House questioning the wisdom of closing and merging various DOs.

[slave]

Ah yes, so there is.. Good old politicians, introduce competition with ridiculous regulation and then complain when RM acts like a normal business scrabbling to save money anyway it can..

[woofwoof]

I'm sorry but it's no shock, they've merged elsewhere and they'll continue to do so across the whole country..

And if they get P&L in right across the country it'll be DOs next..

Its not DOs Next - its DOs now - Plenty of stories on here about local communities and politicians, and even the Speaker of the House questioning the wisdom of closing and merging various DOs.

so should we ask how many buildings do royal mail own /rent this may answer part of the question

[maisymoo04]

my mail centre closed,and we our in the methods.it is happening folks

[andy2007]

If the Reps had an inkling that this might happen, why didn't they pass that info on to the Members?
Obviously it'd cause worry, but so long as they only said that they had suspicions, rather than claiming it was a fact. It'd give people more time to prepare, without causing undue stress. And would avoid the shock of simply being told "out of the blue" that this is happening.