Royal Mail

Today marks Anti-Slavery Day. We are committed to ensuring that modern slavery and human rights abuses are not taking place within our own businesses, Royal Mail and GLS, or within our supply chains. Since the Modern Slavery Act 2015 came into force we have continued to develop and improve our approach. Our latest statement details the steps taken within the last financial year. Read it in full below.

We're proud to partner with Nespresso UK who use our network to facilitate the recycling of their used coffee capsules ♻️ Read more about the partnership at: https://lnkd.in/eNCeBjWW Visit Nespresso's recycling portal at: https://lnkd.in/eQHCyp8k

This #RestartAHeart day, we’re supporting British Heart Foundation's mission to get more people CPR and defibrillator trained. This week and throughout our partnership with BHF our colleagues are learning these lifesaving skills using BHF’s free online CPR and defibrillation training tool, RevivR. Join us in learning the skills and confidence to #RestartAHeart: http://ms.spr.ly/6043mAtEZ

Sending internationally? We use local delivery partners (like the US Postal Service and La Poste) that your recipients trust in their communities… boosting first-time delivery success! Because whether at home or overseas, trust is at the heart of everything we do. Find out more http://ms.spr.ly/6047m4OAh

In the latest edition of the Courier, Royal Mail's in-house magazine, we discussed the significant investment we've made in parcels. This includes: 📦 Three new Parcel Sorting Machines to join the existing 36 - these PSMs have vastly increased our efficiency in sorting parcels. 📦 Introducing more Large Parcel Conveyors to support increased parcel growth and improve capacity at our mail centres. 📦 Continuing to expand our growing parcel lockers network, making sending and receiving parcels as convenient as possible. It's all part of our efforts to meet the needs of our customers across the UK, and with parcel volumes growing, it puts us on the right track to prosper in the future. Read the full piece below.

WE'RE HIRING 16,000 TEMPORARY WORKERS TO HELP DELIVER CHRISTMAS The seasonal work covers Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas and includes 7,000 mail centre sorting roles available in England, 1,000 in Scotland, 300 in Wales and 450 in Northern Ireland. There are also 5,000 delivery and collection roles available across the country The roles offer competitive pay rates and the opportunity for longer-term work. We're pulling out all the stops in its seasonal drive to deliver Christmas to its customers. Today the business announced it is recruiting 16,000 temporary workers to help its 85,000 posties sort the additional mail and increasing number of parcels the company expects to process over the festive period. The temporary positions will be located in two parcel hubs, five seasonal parcel sort centres and 37 mail centres across the country, with a variety of shifts available. To find out more, please visit:  https://lnkd.in/epbEffX

We've launched a new campaign highlighting the variety of ways customers can send parcels through our expanded range of drop-off and collection options. Created by AMV BBDO, the “Send It Your Way” campaign shows how we've made it even easier to send parcels thanks to the launch of lockers and Collect+ sites, in addition to our at-home collection service, Parcel Collect. Watch below for a sneak peek of the campaign 👀

Today we've announced the launch of the UK’s first Collective Defined Contribution pension plan. The innovative scheme will offer over 100,000 Royal Mail employees a cash lump sum and an income in retirement. Royal Mail, the Communications Workers Union and Unite CMA have worked together to design and implement a scheme that would provide the right pension arrangement for its people and the company. At the outset, the parties agreed that any scheme had to provide one pension for all employees with at least 12 months service. It had to be affordable for Royal Mail and its people and would provide an income in retirement. The Collective Plan pools members’ contributions and provides everyone with both an income in retirement and a lump sum. You can find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eKp2GeJj

Today we've announced our new Stamps & Collectibles celebrating 60 Years of The Who 🎸 From headlining Woodstock to electrifying live shows, The Who defined a generation. Now, commemorate their legendary journey with a special collection of Stamps & Collectibles, featuring iconic albums and live performance shots. The Stamps & Collectibles can be pre-ordered from our online shop here: http://ms.spr.ly/6044m5OpE #TheWhoStamps #TheWho60 #RockIcons #StampCollection

We're installing ten new large parcel conveyors at our mail centres in the coming months, as part of of our continued drive to improve efficiency and meet growing demand for parcel deliveries ahead of the peak Christmas period. The conveyors, which will speed up parcel sorting and improve their tracking, will be deployed at mail centres where large parcels are currently mostly sorted by hand. The new technology will help us meet increasing demand for parcels, especially of a larger size. Our in-house engineering team initially designed and built a new large parcel conveyor for the Midlands Parcel Hub, using belts instead of the typical rollers. The same design is now being rolled out across our mail centres. Read more at: http://ms.spr.ly/6048m5PaA