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Consignia is planning to outsource its IT services to Computer Sciences Corporation, in a £1.5bn 10-year contract that will involve the transfer of about 2,000 staff. 18-Oct-2002 Consignia has submitted plans to build a mail distribution centre in Central Park, Rugby, which could create up to 840 jobs. 17-Oct-2002 Consignia is considering plans to close its Royal Mail sorting office in Derby, which employs about 700 staff, in order to transfer the work to its Nottingham site. 22-Jul-2002 Consignia is to close a regional office at Heathfield in South Devon next year, with the loss of 25 jobs. 25-Jun-2002 Consignia is expected to spend up to £1m changing its name back to Royal Mail, with the main cost being the alteration of signs on 3,000 buildings. 13-Jun-2002 Consignia is planning to close Viacode, its loss-making secure e-mail services business, later this year. 24-May-2002 Consignia is planning to shed 50 of its 150 senior postal managers over the next 12 months. 06-May-2002 Consignia and Balfour Beatty are planning a joint venture to manage Consignia's 3,000 properties, and the venture will be awarded a £1bn seven-year contract. 15-Apr-2002 Consignia is preparing plans for the possible closure of up to 3,000 urban post offices, as part of a restructuring programme that will include a £270m government rescue package to compensate individual owners. 10-Apr-2002 Consignia is looking at possible sites near Derby, Burton and elsewhere in the Midlands to set up a regional mail distribution hub, which could create hundreds of jobs. 04-Apr-2002 Consignia has announced plans to shed at least 15,000 jobs, which will involve the closure of 50 Parcelforce depots and an end to the sorting of mail on night trains. 25-Mar-2002 Safeway is outsourcing its returns management to Consignia in order to reduce the costs involved in dealing with faulty goods, and Consignia is now looking to set up similar partnerships with other retailers. 04-Mar-2002 Consignia is set to lose its monopoly in public postal services sooner than expected, following proposals from Postcomm to open up the market for bulk business mail to new operators within eight weeks. 31-Jan-2002 Consignia has won a contract from the US Postal Service to handle parcels and delivery documents sent by air from the US to Europe, and the packages will start at its Amsterdam hub. 09-Jan-2002 Consignia has announced plans to shed up to 30,000 jobs in order to meet cost-saving targets of £1.2bn by April 2003, and some of the cuts will affect the Royal Mail sorting and delivery operations. 12-Dec-2001 Consignia is planning to make up to 75% of its Parcelforce staff self-employed in the near future, prompting union leaders to threaten a strike across the entire postal service. 23-Nov-2001 Consignia and Opus Trust are forming a Leicester-based joint venture called Optecon, in order to provide direct mail and billing services with a workforce of 120. 19-Nov-2001 Consignia is to cut three mail trains in order to improve the punctuality of deliveries, as part of a review of its entire transport system. 12-Nov-2001 Consignia is linking up with Tele2 of Sweden to offer pre-paid cards that will give post office customers access to a cut-price leased telecoms network. 15-Oct-2001 Consignia is planning to cut 15% from its cost base by March 2003, which is expected to result in the loss of 15,000 jobs and the outsourcing of some internal business service work. 04-Oct-2001 Consignia has launched a £30m scheme to provide new services in post offices, which will involve kiosks giving information on jobs, training, benefits and grants. 14-Sep-2001 Consignia is planning to outsource its fleet of 40,000 vehicles, and is seeking partners for the three main parts - heavy trucks, light commercials and business cars. 04-Sep-2001 Consignia is to close 59 call centres with the loss of 250 jobs, in a £30m revamp that will focus the work at sites in Plymouth, Bristol, Barnsley, Doxford, Manchester, Leeds, Stoke, Colchester, Glasgow, Belfast and Bangor. 14-Aug-2001 Consignia is to terminate a contract with Girobank for the collection and delivery of notes and coins from post offices nationwide in June 2002, but the two sides are trying to negotiate a new deal. 30-Jul-2001 Consignia is planning to shed 2,000 middle management and administration jobs and retrain a further 7,300, in order to help the business compete in the liberalised postal market. 16-Jul-2001 Consignia is considering the possibility of outsourcing operations such as letter sorting and delivery, in order to prepare its Royal Mail subsidiary for competition. 31-May-2001 Consignia is considering plans to set up cut-price local postal services, which would compete with its own Royal Mail business and deliver bulk mail for large customers. 25-May-2001 Consignia is to use its 19,000 post office counters as collection points for products ordered through the internet or catalogues, following a six-month trial in the south-west. 09-May-2001 Consignia is planning to build a £150m postal distribution centre near Heathrow airport by 2002, where it will employ 800 staff. 19-Apr-2001 Consignia is investing £50m on computer equipment designed to make its system compatible with the Link network of cash machines, which will enable customers to use debit cards at 40,000 post office terminals around the country. 19-Apr-2001
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