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Bosses at Royal Mail say they are set to scrap Saturday deliveries. Chairman Keith Williams said dropping Saturdays was something being thought about in a recent interview.
He said the company is losing “£1million per day and the efficiency improvements which are needed for long-term success have stalled”. Asked if Saturdays were to be axed, Mr Williams told The Today programme: “Yes, our consumers are not looking for that.”
Bosses said the business lost £1 million each day over the latest quarter. It comes a day after more than 115,000 postal workers at Royal Mail voted to strike over pay in what is expected to be the biggest industrial action to hit Britain this summer.
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A total of 97.6 per cent of those who voted backed strikes, on a turnout of 77 per cent, in protest at a 2 per cent pay offer, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said.
Royal Mail chief executive Simon Thompson said: “I am ready to talk about pay and change at any time. But it has to be both. When we previously spoke to the unions we said there needed to be an improvement in productivity, but it has not gone forwards but backwards.
“Without change this will continue, and obviously we do have concerns over the impact from yesterday’s CWU announcement.”
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