TNT Post UK hope to create 20,000 jobs over five years

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TNT Post UK hope to create 20,000 jobs over five years
Thursday, June 28th, 2012

TNT Post UK has received visits from two Members of Parliament in recent weeks to highlight job creation as it trials end-to-end delivery services.

The company says its trial delivery service in West London, started mid-April, has already created 400 jobs, while plans to roll out the service nationwide could create a further 20,000 jobs in the next five years.

MPs Dominic Grieve and Angela Bray visited TNT facilities to meet new recruits and highlight the employment opportunities from the project.

Grieve visited the TNT Post depot at Iver, in his constituency in Buckinghamshire, just outside West London.

The three-year-old facility employs 209 staff to handle around 30m items per day, with a £ 500,000 sorting machine processing letters ready for TNT Post delivery staff to take to households in the West London trial.

Bray visited a new delivery unit in her West London constituency that is part of the pilot delivery service, joining local mail carrier Ashley Lowe on his round, and seeing for herself a fleet of 200 bicycles being used in Ealing and surrounding areas on the trial.

The UK postal market has been open to competition since 2006, but in practice most private sector postal companies only collect and process mail, before handing it to Royal Mail to be delivered. Royal Mail currently delivers around 99% of UK mail.

TNT Post UK, part of Dutch postal operator PostNL and the second largest postal operator in the UK, has said the universal service provider’s VAT exemptions still make it tough to compete with Royal Mail over that final mile, but is trialling such a service in the hopes that it will be able to compete.

It wants lawmakers and regulators in the UK to end VAT advantages for Royal Mail.

“I am pleased that companies like TNT Post are investing in Ealing and creating jobs for local people,” said Bray, the MP for Central Ealing & Acton. “I look forward to seeing more TNT posties on the streets in the coming months.”

Nick Wells, the TNT Post UK chief executive, said of his new mail carriers: “They are going a great job providing the quality service our customer demand. TNT Post is proud to be creating many more jobs in London and will work hard to provide many more in the years to come.”
Royal Mail

Royal Mail has accused its rival of looking to “cherry pick” the most valuable routes, leaving it with less profitable delivery services.

As though hitting back against TNT Post UK in the lobbying stakes, Royal Mail has also been inviting MPs to join its local mail carriers in Kent over the summer to see how its mail is delivered.

Sidcup MP James Brokenshire saw last week how Royal Mail is reviewing and modernising its operations to increase efficiency, and joined local postman Gary Talbot on his round.

Brokenshire said: “I wanted to get a real understanding of the work that goes into delivering the mail on a daily basis. There can be no better way of getting that insight than actually going out and doing the job alongside a delivery postman.”

Darren Ager, Royal Mail’s delivery officer manager in Sidcup, said: “The visit gave us the opportunity to show Mr Brokenshire how we are modernising the organisation.

“In the South East we have invested over £ 9m in new automation and new delivery equipment for our postmen and women. We are delivering more parcels and fewer letters than ever before and the tools for the job need to reflect that,” said Ager.

[demon]

main question i want to no is how much are they going to pay and what hours will they deliver ie start time 5am 12 oclock finish hope tnt no people want there mail early

[PhilthyPhil]

main question i want to no is how much are they going to pay and what hours will they deliver ie start time 5am 12 oclock finish hope tnt no people want there mail early

Minimum wage no doubt. Why does it matter what time they deliver the mail? DSA normally takes about a week so what difference does a few more hours make?

[fishtank]

main question i want to no is how much are they going to pay and what hours will they deliver ie start time 5am 12 oclock finish hope tnt no people want there mail early

We have one of them on here.
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Pay would be £7.10 an hour. Basic under performing would be NMW only. Pay increases would be up to £8.10-50 and held there unless you get promoted of course. Get 28 days paid holiday each holiday year, statutory sick pay for more than 3 days, good pension scheme, Right allowance programme for travel if needed and get various bonuses also. Until I start I can't comment on the training quality, workload, working environment or other positions pay rates etc. I'll post an update in the near future if it is any use to you or others I guess.

[RedBagMan]

Dominic Grieve - Tory
Angela Bray - Tory
James Brokenshire - Tory

Two "cherry-pickers" + one other Tory ...

[hans solo]

return all their dsa and tell them to get on with it

[iblamemedad]

The three-year-old facility employs 209 staff to handle around 30m items per day

So we are to believe that 209 staff can handle a third of RM's daily post bag. Jesus they're good.

[Lincox]

Two hundred cycles. Wonder why they have no health and safety issues with cycles. I wonder if they got them on the cheap and resprayed them.

[PhilthyPhil]

The three-year-old facility employs 209 staff to handle around 30m items per day

So we are to believe that 209 staff can handle a third of RM's daily post bag. Jesus they're good.

Yeah that is obviously BS as 30m per day would be roughly the number for all DSA for the whole country However TNT are going to be more efficient in terms of the amount of mail sorted per number of staff because much more of their mail is machinable.

[blackadder]

tnt will be delivering the unstamped mail and doing it cheaper then r.m. that leaves r.m with stamped mail. bet they wont deliver saturdays so could well be a better job??

[robg]

At least the rounds would be small, they'd reach maybe 6% of the UK which is 40% odd of total households and only deal in junkmail or bills/statements with no post boxes or public customers.

I can't see how TNT hope to survive if people are moving away from letter to online, unless they get big contracts from amazon and even then they will struggle to make money over royal mail with it's multiple income from one delivery. Amazon make maybe 3pence in every pound which is abot what RM are getting :)

[scoobydo79]

Interesting to see that a company can see the advantage of using bycycles for its delivery service......WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE ROYAL MAIL!!!!

[fishtank]

Interesting to see that a company can see the advantage of using bycycles for its delivery service......WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE ROYAL MAIL!!!!

Unfortunately TNT's current mail profile is similar to ours was.....20 years ago.
No packets,no tracked,no specials,no flats....just letters.
That's why bikes suited us then...and TNT now.

[DGP1]

Interesting to see that a company can see the advantage of using bycycles for its delivery service......WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE ROYAL MAIL!!!!

Unfortunately TNT's current mail profile is similar to ours was.....20 years ago.
No packets,no tracked,no specials,no flats....just letters.
That's why bikes suited us then...and TNT now.

BUT...........we're constantly told that it's the packets that are the future, anyway, we'll all be in our own vans soon

[Lincox]

Fish, our walkers can carry two mailbags on their trolleys. These have to cope with the normal daily packets. How is that any different to a bicycle with a mailbag on the front and two further panniers to carry parcels, rainwear etc. Royal Mail are and have got rid of cycles on health and safety grounds, surely not that trolleys are more efficient for carrying packets, as that just does not wear.