NE MAIL CENTRE CLOSURES

[End of the road]

Newcastle , Middlesborough and Darlington to new Tyneside MC

Bradford and York into Leeds MC

Doncaster and Hull into Sheffield

To take effect 2012 and we are in a 90 day consultation period.

Both inward and outward operations are to cease at the closing sites and staff are to be offered the opportunity to transfer to the three reamining offices, how anyone would wish to spend and hour and half travelling from Hull to Sheffield and back every day is lost on me. We are all to get a letter on Saturday morning explaining everything and it will give us the whole weekend to consider it and get all our anger out before we return for next weeks work on Monday.

They did manage to tell us verbally this morning

Bastards ...........................

Gutted totally gutted

[Gisajob]

Just found out at Teesside, expected but still a shock!

[pinstripe]

We were told today that all 4 Mail Centres serving Kent are to close and be merged into one. They're selling the site for one, (can't remember which one) but not the other three as they won't get enough money for them.
Seems today is D-Day for MC's.

[Bluebird]

Of course the deal was a good deal!!!!

For who exactly
How many loyal postal workers are going to be without a job in 2012, terrible news... completely gutted

[jimmythepost]

Hi All.

Are you guys blind just over the hills in the North West they are shutting Bolton Crewe Liverpool ( Oldham Stockport already Gone ) There will be only two mail centre left Manchester and Preston.

Crewe will have to travel around 80 miles round trip so the answer to your question is they do expect you to travel long distances.

Thats why the vote of no confidence went in about Martin Collins is everyone awake now because it going to hit you very hard.

Jimbo

[hubbahubba]

We were told today that all 4 Mail Centres serving Kent are to close and be merged into one. They're selling the site for one, (can't remember which one) but not the other three as they won't get enough money for them.
Seems today is D-Day for MC's.

Anyone heard anything about any south coast closures,BH,SO,PO regions?

[barclay]

Hi.
I work at SHREWSBURY Mail Centre, Can anybody tell us what is likely to happen here,as it is one of the smallest mail centres in the country, and worth a fortune if they sold it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Stormproof]

We were told today that all 4 Mail Centres serving Kent are to close and be merged into one. They're selling the site for one, (can't remember which one) but not the other three as they won't get enough money for them.
Seems today is D-Day for MC's.

Maidstone MC is getting sold. They will be spending £75million on the new MC.

[woofwoof]

Newcastle , Middlesborough and Darlington to new Tyneside MC

Bradford and York into Leeds MC

Doncaster and Hull into Sheffield

To take effect 2012 and we are in a 90 day consultation period.

Both inward and outward operations are to cease at the closing sites and staff are to be offered the opportunity to transfer to the three reamining offices, how anyone would wish to spend and hour and half travelling from Hull to Sheffield and back every day is lost on me. We are all to get a letter on Saturday morning explaining everything and it will give us the whole weekend to consider it and get all our anger out before we return for next weeks work on Monday.

They did manage to tell us verbally this morning

Bastards ...........................

Gutted totally gutted

its over 50 miles so the hull staff wont be travelling from Hull to Sheffield

[postmanplod]

Of course the deal was a good deal!!!!

For who exactly
How many loyal postal workers are going to be without a job in 2012, terrible news... completely gutted

Was the deal a good deal ?

"In addition to the job security commitments contained in the MTSF Agreement - Royal Mail and CWU confirm that the overarching objective is to deliver the transformation without recourse to compulsory redundancies." - from Pg 8 of the Business transformation agreement

Without the deal the closure programme would have still gone ahead, but we could of had compulsory redundancies with no MTFS and a lot lower severence payments

[tcblue]

All mail centres in kent are closing dartford, canterbury, tonbridge, maidstone and a new super centre built for spring 2012

[bandit650]

We were told today that all 4 Mail Centres serving Kent are to close and be merged into one. They're selling the site for one, (can't remember which one) but not the other three as they won't get enough money for them.
Seems today is D-Day for MC's.

Canterbury
Maidstone
Tonbridge
Dartford.
Maidstone is being sold as it is in prime retail area,i believe that they have had an offer already,the rest will be used to fold other DO's in as it is not viable in the present climate to sell.

[Rommagic]

We were told today that all 4 Mail Centres serving Kent are to close and be merged into one. They're selling the site for one, (can't remember which one) but not the other three as they won't get enough money for them.
Seems today is D-Day for MC's.

Canterbury
Maidstone
Tonbridge
Dartford.
Maidstone is being sold as it is in prime retail area,i believe that they have had an offer already,the rest will be used to fold other DO's in as it is not viable in the present climate to sell.

But say there are about 320 delivery jobs in those four mail centre's.People may need for example 15 years service or more to get a delivery job.How many jobs will go on processing also?.

[Stampy]

Anyone heard anything about any south coast closures,BH,SO,PO regions?

Knowing RM, they'll probably shove them in with Gatwick...

[bandit650]

From what i have understood from it all is that the DO's will still have the staff in them with no forced to go from the business
Maidstone Do will be put into a new purpose built delivery office because thier building has been or will be sold off,not sure how many from where i am will go up to new office but thats the whole idea it's a new way of streamling the business.