Transfer of Work to Royal Mail from Parcelforce

Transfer of Work to Royal Mail from Parcelforce 

The department were recently informed by the business that the Royal Mail network will be receiving some additional tracked traffic, which is due to a change in contract arrangements that currently exist between Parcelforce Worldwide and an international customer.

 

Discussions have taken place with the business and have culminated in an agreed Joint Statement for the transfer of this work, which was endorsed by the Postal Executive at its meeting on 20th October 2015. For reasons of commercial confidentiality the Joint Statement cannot be published, however we can confirm the salient points are as follows:

 

➢ Service change is targeted to commence 2nd November 2015

➢ The international tracked items from the customer involved will be received in the UK by Parcelforce Worldwide

➢ The items that are within specification, i.e. less than 20kg in weight, will then be dispatched to the National Distribution Centre (NDC) for onward distribution and delivery within the RM network  

➢ It is estimated that the amount of items transferred from Parcelforce to Royal Mail network will be between 10k and 36K (peak) daily

➢ The items that are not within specification, i.e. 20kg and over, will continue to be delivered by Parcelforce in line with current arrangements

➢ Any necessary mechanical handling equipment changes at NDC are currently being progressed with full CWU H&S involvement

➢ Any necessary change activity to duty arrangements at NDC will be progressed at pace in line with the IR Framework

 

Any enquiries in relation to this LTB should be addressed to Davie Robertson, Assistant Secretary, e-mail: dwyatt@cwu.org or shayman@cwu.org quoting reference number 711.09.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Davie Robertson

Assistant Secretary