Royal Mail invests further £20m due to weather

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Royal Mail invests further £20m due to weather
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Monday, December 13th, 2010
Royal Mail has invested an additional £20m to deal with the fallout from the severe weather.

The operator has put a range of measures in place to tackle the impact of the severe weather on deliveries to those parts of the country most impacted by the heavy snowfalls.

Today (13 December) is the busiest day for Royal Mail over the festive period. It expects to handle today around 130m Christmas cards, letters and presents ordered online.

The measures constitute a £20m investment by Royal Mail over the next two weeks.

They are in addition to the resources already allocated by the company to its Christmas delivery programme. Significant extra resources are being deployed right across the UK, including in the North East, Scotland, and the Midlands.

The main additional actions now being taken are:

- The recruitment of up to 3,000 more people

- Approximately 6,500 extra deliveries (primarily packets) yesterday in the areas most affected by the severe weather, delivering to around one million addresses

- An additional 500 professional HGV drivers and an extra 250 large lorries

- Seven more operational centres on top of the 24 already in use

These actions are on top of Royal Mail’s already announced Christmas programme. It includes the recruitment of up to an additional 20,000 people and extended opening hours at all Royal Mail’s 1,400 local delivery offices.


The UK has recently experienced the longest period of prolonged cold weather and snowfall in almost 30 years (source: Met Office). Essential public services, including Royal Mail, have been disrupted by this adverse weather throughout December, particularly in Scotland, the North East and North Midlands.

Mark Higson, managing director, Royal Mail, said, “We are pulling out all the stops to deliver this Christmas. The worst December weather the UK has seen in almost 30 years has had an impact on our services to some parts of the country. With this additional £20m investment, we are committed to ensure we deliver letters and packets as quickly as possible.

“Our people are doing a great job in very challenging conditions. I would like to thank them for their tremendous efforts to ensure we continue to deliver right up until Christmas Eve.”

[bensonhedge]

£20 million...thought we had a cashflow problem

[apple]

no mention of any 4+4 s then, that's what we need, gormless
i want a Panda 4+4 as used by the swiss posties

[Broxi51]

Doesnt mention any blank OT cheque. We are being offered any amount of hours we want to get mail delivered
and yet they are still putting out D2D's which in turn are putting peoples backs up about delivering them.
We are not a militant office but posties are getting really hacked off at adding extra sh*te into an already full bag
and adding time to an already long delivery that they dont particularly want. They feel they are offering a service to the
customer in trying to get their xmas cards and pressies to them and dont understand why RM are trying their
hardest to make posties cut off by making us deliver bin fodder.
Interesting times these next 10 days

[jockstrapp]

£20 million...thought we had a cashflow problem

Door 2 door will pay for it

[belle smith]

They are in addition to the resources already allocated by the company to its Christmas delivery programme. Significant extra resources are being deployed right across the UK, including in the North East, Scotland, and the Midlands.

The NE and Scotland....has the Midlands had WSM revisions as well.

Approximately 6,500 extra deliveries (primarily packets) yesterday in the areas most affected by the severe weather, delivering to around one million addresses

Primarily packets. Loads of duties in our office with about 4 or 5 drop bags full of packets that haven't been touched.

Mark Higson, managing director, Royal Mail, said, “We are pulling out all the stops to deliver this Christmas. The worst December weather the UK has seen in almost 30 years has had an impact on our services to some parts of the country. With this additional £20m investment, we are committed to ensure we deliver letters and packets as quickly as possible.

Mark Higson said. oh s**t! i've really f****d up this time! the public will go spare when the Christmas presents that they orderd aren't there till Febuary.

“Our people are doing a great job in very challenging conditions. I would like to thank them for their tremendous efforts to ensure we continue to deliver right up until Christmas Eve.”

If we could just get through Christmas i'll prep test the bastards to within an inch of their life.

[heathrow86]

I thought mail volumes were dropping!! Its not all down to the bad weather!!