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Royal Mail Royal Mail has confirmed plans to close its mail centre in Bletchley with the loss of up to 600 jobs, in order to transfer the work to an enlarged centre in Northampton in 2010. 21-Nov-2008 Royal Mail is to close sorting offices in Stockport, Bolton and Oldham over the next two years, as part of a plan to develop a new regional distribution centre in Warrington and four delivery offices in Manchester and Liverpool. 11-Sep-2008 Royal Mail is to close its Copperas Hill sorting centre in Liverpool and transfer the work to Warrington by next year, affecting up to 800 jobs. 06-Aug-2008 Royal Mail is to set up a distribution centre on a 12-acre site in West Thurrock, including a 220,000 sq ft refurbished building and lorry park. 22-Jul-2008 Royal Mail is to invest up to £70m in a new mail sorting and distribution centre at the Swan Valley Industrial Estate in Northampton by 2010, but the Bishop Street site in Coventry will close with the loss of about 500 jobs. 09-Jul-2008 Royal Mail has confirmed plans to close its Caversham Road sorting office in Reading by June 2009, with the loss of 400 jobs. 20-May-2008 Royal Mail is to close its delivery office at Leek Road in Stoke-on-Trent, in order to transfer up to 250 jobs to other sites. 06-Mar-2008 Royal Mail has appointed Lambert Smith Hampton to find a suitable site in Northamptonshire for a 200,000 sq ft parcel delivery warehouse. 22-Jan-2008 Royal Mail has warned unions that up to 48,000 of the 160,000 jobs in its letters division could be cut over the next five years, due to increased automation. 05-Apr-2007 Royal Mail is to close its customer service centre in Colchester in March 2007 with the loss of 97 jobs, as part of a strategy to consolidate the work into six national centres. 22-Nov-2006 Royal Mail is to set up a 12,000 sq ft sorting office at Trinity Park in Bootle. 30-Oct-2006 Royal Mail is seeking permission for the £20m expansion of its mail depot at Dorcan in Swindon, which would involve the transfer of operations from Reading and Gloucester in 2008. 28-Sep-2006 Royal Mail is planning to close the Bishop Street mail sorting centre in Coventry and transfer the work to Northampton, but no redundancies are expected among the 500 staff. 28-Sep-2006 Royal Mail is in negotiations with Fedex and UPS about the possibility of forming a strategic alliance to expand its General Logistics Systems business across continental Europe. 22-May-2006 Royal Mail is planning to relocate its Parcelforce Worldwide depot and 125 staff from Southampton docks to Fareham, and a further 100 Royal Mail staff will relocate to Marchwood and Twyford. 21-Mar-2006 Royal Mail is looking to shed 40 of the 2,000 jobs at its nine contact centres, and is seeking volunteers for redundancy. 31-Jan-2006 Royal Mail is launching a telephone directory enquiries service through its Post Office division, using call centres in Birmingham and Glasgow. 30-Jan-2006 Postmasternetwork is considering plans for a management buy-out of the Royal Mail's network of 14,500 sub-post offices. 02-Nov-2005 Royal Mail and Royal TPG Post are to sell Postal Preference Service, the direct marketing company, to Interactive Prospect Targeting Holdings for £4.3m. 23-Aug-2005 Royal Mail is said to be planning to close or sell off about 250 of its main Crown post offices, reducing the network to less than 400. 01-Nov-2004 Royal Mail is to recruit more than 170 delivery and sorting workers to improve its services across the north-east. 21-Oct-2004 Royal Mail is planning to close the Lime Walk sorting office in Oxford, and the 60 staff will relocate to the Sandy Lane site. 21-Sep-2004 Royal Mail is planning to build a multi-million pound postal centre in Northampton by 2006. 01-Sep-2004 Royal Mail is looking to sell about 50 of its large High Street branches to convenience store groups as part of a cost reduction programme, but smaller Post Office franchises could be offered at some of the sites. 31-Aug-2004 Royal Mail has agreed a deal to give Dutch-owned TPG Post access to its delivery network, which will involve the use of TPG's existing TNT infrastructure to carry business mail to 73 mail centres. 08-Apr-2004 Royal Mail has announced plans to close 29 post offices in south Birmingham, as part of a nationwide plan to close 3,000 out its 9,000 urban sites. 26-Feb-2004 Royal Mail has announced plans to shed 3,000 management jobs over the next few months, affecting departments such as sales and marketing, personnel and finance. 15-Dec-2003 Royal Mail is to close its sorting depot at Stafford train station and relocate the 21 staff to other sites. 27-Nov-2003 Royal Mail is to launch a range of banking services in partnership with Bank of Ireland, which will involve a £125m investment in its post offices and computer systems. 08-Oct-2003 Royal Mail is to stop transporting post by rail following a collapse in negotiations with English Welsh & Scottish Railway, which will involve the cancellation of 49 trains and an uncertain future for 500 jobs. 06-Jun-2003 Royal Mail has confirmed plans to sell off its Mail Rail underground miniature railway in London, and is in discussions with a number of organisations about possible options. 27-May-2003 Royal Mail is launching a recruitment drive to find 350 employees for a new £40m distribution centre due to open in Crick in September, and a further 300 will join later. 16-May-2003 Royal Mail is to switch the transport of most first-class post from rail to road, using its fleet of 40,000 vehicles. 06-Dec-2002 Royal Mail is considering plans to close Mail Rail, the underground rail network that links mail centres in London, and wants to hear suggestions from business and heritage groups about what to do with the track. 11-Nov-2002 Royal Mail has announced plans to set up a £40m transport hub for up to 600 staff at the Drift Logistics Park in Daventry by next August, and existing sites in Wednesbury, Nottingham and Northampton will close. 30-Oct-2002 The Royal Mail is to create a further 150 jobs at its St Rollox mail centre in Glasgow. 13-Apr-2001 Royal Mail has submitted plans to build a third new sorting office in Gloucester, as part of a £7m investment in the city. 20-Oct-2000 Royal Mail is to invest £3m in new buildings and equipment to improve its delivery services in the Bolton area. 24-Mar-2000 Royal Mail is to close its international mail centre in Sutton Coldfield, along with others in London and Glasgow, to make way for a new £150m centre close to Heathrow Airport. 24-Feb-2000 Royal Mail is creating 120 jobs at a new £40m sorting office at Mallusk in County Antrim. 11-Feb-2000 Royal Mail is planning to revamp the postal delivery system in Gloucester at a cost of £5m, which is expected to involve the creation of three new delivery centres and the modernisation of the sorting office. 31-Dec-1999 Royal Mail is to set up a new sorting office at Stone Business Park in Staffordshire, having outgrown its existing site in Stone's Station Road. 07-Dec-1999 Royal Mail is considering plans to relocate its Newcastle-under-Lyme sorting office to an out-of-town location at the former Eternit Clay Tiles in Knutton. 01-Oct-1999 Royal Mail has awarded a £130m contract to Lockheed Martin of the US for the supply of systems that will enable it to automate the processing of machine-printed and hand-written addresses on letters and parcels. 24-Jun-1999 Royal Mail is to build a £1.5m sorting and delivery office in Dewsbury by the autumn, and 110 staff will be relocated from existing sites. 12-May-1999 Royal Mail is planning major changes to its London operations, which could involve 2,000 job losses at its Mount Pleasant sorting office and a new site being set up near Slough. 16-Apr-1999 Royal Mail has launched a secure e-mail system called ViaCode that will initially be offered to business users. 17-Mar-1999 The Post Office is planning to build a £20m Royal Mail distribution centre in Belfast, and the preferred bidder will be named in March. 28-Jan-1999 The Royal Mail is planning a £4m delivery office in Sunderland, which will create 30 jobs. 17-Sep-1998 The Post Office is forming a joint venture with Selektvracht to set up a mail-sorting facility at Utrecht in the Netherlands, which will enable the Royal Mail to offer its worldwide delivery service to Dutch bulk mailing customers. 23-Jul-1998 Securicor Omega Express is testing a business postal delivery service in order to be prepared for any possible lifting of the Royal Mail monopoly on postal services. 02-Oct-1996 More from the Transport sector Related pages: Arriva TDG Associated British Ports National Express Owens Road Services Royal Mail website: www.royalmail.com The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. 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