Oldham - Red letter day for delivery centres

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POSTAL workers and customers have been delivered some good news after Royal Mail announced it has scrapped plans to merge the Hamilton Street offices into an inter-borough depot.

The firm said it was dropping a proposal to close Ashton Delivery Office and transfer staff and services to Oldham, a move that was branded as an "unworkable, cost-saving exercise" by the Communication Workers Union in the Chronicle last November.

It also gave Droylsden Delivery Office its second reprieve in 12 months.

A Royal Mail spokesman said: "After careful consideration and consultation, we have decided not to proceed with these mergers at this point in time.

"The Ashton Delivery Office and the Droylsden Delivery Office will remain at their current sites."

Following a campaign by the union, staff, Ashton and Failsworth MP Angela Rayner and Stalybridge and Dukinfield MP Jonathan Reynolds, Ashton's Fleet Street office and public pick-up counter, which employs 80 staff, will remain open.

In November, CWU area representative Paul Fenney said the move would have a huge impact on the workforce and customers who would have to travel up to 16 miles from across Tameside to collect undeliverable mail.