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Royal Mail has thousands of jobs up for grabs in the run up to the busy festive season. There will be 16,000 temporary workers recruited, with contracts running from late October to early January 2025.
Roles will be created across two parcel hubs, five seasonal parcel sort centres and 37 mail centres. A number of local delivery offices would also have positions available, the Mirror reports.
Parcel hubs in Daventry and Warrington would hire more than 2,000 additional staff to cope with the 1.7 million parcels expected to be processed a day across both sites. Extra temporary space, equivalent to 20 football pitches, has also been created across the five seasonal parcel sort centres in Atherstone, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Daventry and Greenford in London.
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Temporary recruits would be tasked with sorting the growing number of online shopping orders expected before they are taken to Royal Mail ’s 1,200 delivery offices. Royal Mail’s chief operating officer, Alistair Cochrane, said: “Every year we pull out all the stops to deliver Christmas for our customers. It’s our busiest time of year and we plan all year round to help ensure we deliver the best possible service for UK consumers and businesses.
“We are continuing to make a substantial commitment in additional resources including the recruitment of thousands of temporary workers to handle the festive mailbag and the growing market of online Christmas shopping.”
