Fresh fears over city’s Royal Mail sorting HQ

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Apr 28 2008 by Neil Hodgson, Liverpool Echo

NEW doubts over the future of Liverpool’s Copperas Hill Royal Mail sorting centre emerged today.

A Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) meeting in Manchester last week considered the ongoing Royal Mail review of the region’s seven mail centres, and concluded that Liverpool’s main sorting office has no future as a processing mail centre.

However, they did hold out hope that the centre, which supports up to 800 jobs, could be converted to a super delivery office if machinery that sorts postal items into order for delivery in the L1 to L8 areas can be installed.

The meeting, which was attended by CWU national officer Martin Collins, looked at several criteria needed for new mechanisation to be installed.

Of the five areas considered Liverpool fails all, including no single-floor working capacity or room for new mechanisation.

The other centres include Crewe, Manchester, Preston, Oldham, Bolton and Stockport.

A CWU notice issued after the meeting said: “The worrying part of this is with no future planned investment in new technology Liverpool mail centre will cease to exist as a mail centre.â€