privitisation chit chat

[bigal383]

hiya guys, this privitisation if it goes ahead as stated in september are there going to be job cuts in our delivery offices?? been with royal mail 2 years in august ,6th from the bottom in all of the office . makes me wonder especially with a very young family !

[Postie45]

hiya guys, this privitisation if it goes ahead as stated in september are there going to be job cuts in our delivery offices?? been with royal mail 2 years in august ,6th from the bottom in all of the office . makes me wonder especially with a very young family !

im sure theyll try to look to cut jobs but most offices are barely getting work done with the current amount of staff. The easiest workers to get rid of are the uncontracted workers, so those would be out first, then theyll probably offer voluntary redundancies, if after this they still have too many staff they probably will probably offer to keep someone on if they move to another unit or let them go.

[tigercat]

Probably the only good news will be that some DSM/DOM/lino/bullies will get the push.

[Apexs]

i guess it will depend who buys, if its say someone like tnt whats to stop them using their own staff, they wouldn't need most of us

[TrueBlueTerrier]

CVC are looking to be the front runners looking at recent stories. They have some spare cash as well having been knocked back by "BetFair" on an offer of £912 Million.

CVC are venture capitalists and have BPost in their stable, (50% less 1 share in a joint deal with Post Danmark) so they have some experience in the Postal market.


CVC's current European and US portfolio of companies includes:

Cerved: Italian credit data and business intelligence company
Pilot Travel Centers: the largest truck stop chain in the United States (co-owned with Pilot Corporation);
Formula One Group: the world's leading motor sport management business;
Samsonite: the global luggage company;
Automobile Association: the leading automotive rescue service provider in the UK;
Merlin Entertainments: worlds second largest theme park operator, jointly controlled with KIRKBI/Blackstone Group
Cortefiel: one of the largest apparel retailers in Spain;
Seat Pagine Gialle: the leading directories business in Italy;
Leslie's Pool Supplies: the largest U.S. retailer of swimming pool supplies;
BPost: the Belgian postal services operator;
Univar: the largest chemical distribution company in the US and Europe;
C1000: Dutch supermarket chain;
R: a Spanish cable company based in Galicia, offering quadruple play services (telephone, mobile phone, Internet and television).

[flaminmoses]

id rather it was someone like them.

they clearly are just buying without thought.

no idiot would put in a bid of that much for betfair knowing a lot of the bigger nations wont allow usage of the exchange product in their country.

you cant use the exchange in....usa...germany....spain....france...netherlands for starters.
at first only the usa blocked usage.