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Royal Mail delays full rollout of postal overhaul until after Christmas
The group said it had agreed with the postal workers’ union to delay expanding the reforms to the remaining 107 delivery offices until January to allow staff to focus on the peak festive season.
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staff → delay → season
Royal Mail, whose owner International Distribution Services was bought last year by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, is rolling out major reforms that will result in second-class post only being delivered on alternate weekdays with Saturday second-class deliveries scrapped.
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deliveries → buy → weekdays
The business had expected to expand the new model across all its 1,200 delivery offices by Christmas, after initial delays because of disagreements with the trade union.
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business → expect → union
Royal Mail has so far completed the changes in just under 1,100 delivery offices, with another 15 included by November 2, but will wait until January 11 for the reforms to be applied in the final 107 offices across the UK.
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reforms → complete → UK
The Communication Workers Union also earlier this month called for an emergency summit on Royal Mail’s future, claiming the organisation was “on the brink of collapse”.
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organisation → call → collapse
Royal Mail insisted its reforms were starting to bear fruit, but said the latest delay was a “pragmatic approach” to allow it to “maintain the momentum behind one of the biggest operational changes in its history, while keeping focus firmly on delivering a successful Christmas for customers”.
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it → insist → customers
Alistair Cochrane, chief executive of Royal Mail, said: “We have now deployed our new delivery model in around 90% of delivery offices and are starting to see the benefits for customers.
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We → say → customers
“First-class quality of service has improved by 9%, and offices operating under the new delivery model are delivering to around 95% of addresses each day on average, compared with 88% before rollout began.
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rollout → improve → %
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“There is still more to do, but the progress we are seeing gives us confidence that the new delivery model will continue to ensure more reliable, efficient and sustainable deliveries for our customers.”
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model → read → customers
Royal Mail revealed in August it missed delivery targets once again.
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it → reveal → targets
It delivered 85% of first-class deliveries the next day and 91.4% of second-class mail within three working days during the first quarter of the year.
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It → deliver → year
Under recently lowered targets set by Ofcom, 90% of first-class mail should be delivered the next day and 95% of second-class mail should be delivered within three days.
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% → lower → days
Royal Mail insisted it had seen a marked improvement from a year earlier, when first-quarter figures showed just 76% of first-class and 89.3% of second-class post arrived on time.
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% → insist → time
In Prime Minister’s Questions last week, Mr Burnham said Royal Mail’s service has been “unacceptable for far too long”.
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service → say → Questions
He said: “They need to bring forward a plan to restore service standards to the level they need to be at.
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they → say → level
They need to do it quickly or we will consider further measures.”
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we → need → measures
Royal Mail published an improvement plan in the spring which included a commitment to invest £500 million in quality of service over five years.
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which → publish → years
Earlier this month, Royal Mail said it would cut 2,500 head office jobs and other supporting roles, about 2% of its overall workforce.
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it → say → workforce
Frontline postal workers are not part of the proposed restructure, the group said.
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group → propose → restructure
Royal Mail is hiring 22,000 temporary workers over the Christmas period to help transport, sort and deliver the additional mail expected over the festive period.
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Mail → hire → period
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